Getting out of lurk mode :DI actually remember reading The Girl who owned a City in highschool as part of an English class project. I have to re-read that one again as I don't remember much about it. unfortunately my bookshare membership expired so I'll have to wait to re-read it.
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Let me throw out a title that I just thought of. I got this about a year ago from RFB&D. The title is "The Girl Who Owned a City." The author's name does not come to mind right now. The plot concerns the fact that a worldwide plague kills off everyone over the age of twelve and leaves the children to found a new society. It is a bit reminiscent of "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding in that the kids start conflicting and become quite violent with each other. They do manage to work out a new social order though._ _ _"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven." - Robert IngersollFollow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rogerbailey81 The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim O'Neill" <jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:01 PMSubject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocalyptic to The Plum ThicketHi Ron, Yeah, I read that one, but like I said there was a second book that came out in analog sf magazine in 2008 It was about Candy going to Russia to find her father. Jim, jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:45 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocalyptic to The Plum Thicket Hi Jim, It is, and includes the entire story. Look for RC 24565. Best regards Ron Miller From: Jim O'Neill [mailto:jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:25 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocalyptic to The Plum Thicket Hi Ron, I did not know that Seeking was a talking book. Jim, jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:59 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket Hi Jim, Yes, I actually read them both as a talking book, years ago. Very fine stories. Ron Miller From: Jim O'Neill [mailto:jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:30 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum ThicketDid you read the sequel I think that it was called Seeking. It came out inthe September 2008 issue of analog I think. Jim, jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:18 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket I had forgotten about emergence. It was fantastic, I first read it serialized in analog back in the 1980s. I keep almost reading "Damnation Alley" by roger Zelazney, which was alsomade into a movie with the same title-though I don't know if the movie stuckvery closely to the book's plot. Best to all Ron Miller From: Mayrie ReNae [mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:06 AM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket Hi Bob, I adore the quote in your sig file!Another postapocolyptic book, the only one I've ever read is "Emergence" byDavid R. Palmer. Bookshare doesn't have it, but I'll see if I can get a copy cheap somewhere. Here's its synopsis. Book Description: Immune from the effects of a bionuclear war that has destroyed most of humanity, an eleven-year-old girl realizes that she represents a new stage in human evolution. Recording her thoughts and experiences in a diary, she sets out across a scarred America seeking others of her kind. Mayrie _____ From: Bob W [mailto:rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:31 AM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket Hi Lissi. I never ever read children's books, never! (I ain't one, I ain't got none, and I don't want none.) But your description of the "plumb thicket"'s main character and herapproach to books is so intriguing that I want to encourage you to hurry andget it in the collection so I can read it. Bob (the grump)A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thingyou just did? Don't do that.' Douglas Adams----- Original Message -----From: Estelnalissi <mailto:airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:31 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] on books from The Apocolyptic to The Plum Thicket Dear Booksharian Friends, Thanks to all of you who contributed to the discussion on post apocalyptic books and especially to Bob W. for starting it. The detail in which thesebooks were described helps me to decide which to read. I've only read three of them of which, The Postman, the book, not the movie, was my favorite. Itwas hopeful, inspiring and exciting. In a few days I'll be checking in The Plum Thicket by Janice Holt Giles. 'The copyright is 1954 so some of you who enjoy books written then mightwant to check it out. Whether you like her work in general, I think most ofyou might share some of its eight-year-old narrator's views on books and reading."I stood before the rows of books, undecided, all of their bindings, all oftheir titles, alluring. I cannot remember when I did not have a love for books amounting to reverence; my passion for reading is so deep that it is actually an addiction, like the drug habit. I would read the telephone directory if nothing else were available. But not only is opening a book, any book, any time, an adventure which makes my pulse beat faster, I love books also for their own sake. I like to hold in my hand a beautiful book, feel its quality and texture, smell it and, I can think of no better word, love it. I particularly love the old leather bindings, such as those on my grandfather's shelves, and I particularly love, too, the heavy, torn paper and the exquisite type which many of them had. A beautiful book is truly a work of art. What should it be? Scott? Thackeray? Trollope? Brontë? Tentatively I tookdown Madame Bovary. I knew Grandfather greatly appreciated Flaubert But thetext was in French. Regretfully I put it back. The Dickens shelf was next, and with a kind of homing instinct I picked out David Copperfield. I had read it twice already, but it was always irresistible." Always with love, Lissi Here is the information from the dust jacket:To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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