[bksvol-discuss] Re: Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Series

  • From: "Jamie Prater" <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:14:29 -0600

Hi, Monica, I like what you said about the Tillerman books. Dicey and her siblings were part of my imagination as a teenager and I would have loved to have read all those books during that time. I may read them all on my braillenote this time--when I get it back from Humanware, that is. Have a blessed day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> 

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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Series
Jamie and Judy, I love the Tillerman series too. A Solitary Blue is a book I remember and think about often. There is a seen toward the end that comes to 
mind when I see myself or anyone else trading family for things that won't
last . The Runner is a powerful book. However, the narrator NLS got for The 
Runner is beyond belief. I'm sure he's a very nice man, but he reads in a
slow, flat way, like a robot. I'll be thrilled to re-read the book from
Bookshare now so I can mentally paint my own pictures of the characters.
Even with a poor reader, that book's ending is still so clear for me, like
being etched in glass.

Without that book, Homecoming, (the first book), doesn't fully make sense.
You won't know why Abigail is as they find her in the first book until you
read The Runner. I really like how the author lets us get to know people
slowly, letting them unfold to us the way people do in the real world. She
doesn't tell us about the people. She lets the people and their experiences 
show us who they are over time.

Monica Willyard
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 12:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: two questions for the gang



Hi Jamie, the Cynthia Voigt books are called the "Tillerman" series, and
Carrie has added the numbers in. smile.
Aren't they great books? I'd recommend them to anyone. They're for teens,
and initially about a young teen who takes her younger brothers and sister 


on a cross-country trip to find a living relative who will take them in
after their mentally ill mother dies. Then the series branches out and
follows now only them but also friends the main character in the first
book, Dicey, met or is related to. The characters and situations are very 


3-dimensional, and complex, and the books don't "fix" everyone's lives in
a pretty box with a bow, either, in some instances.  The book "The
Runner," which is entirely a flashback of one generation in the series,
for example, ends with a main character dying in Vietnam.  While written
recently, in the 1980s, they aren't about sex and drugs and aren't full of
foul language, like so many modern teen books are. On the other hand they 


aren't in the Christian genre at all, either. "Dicey's Song" won the
Newbery medal, and "A Solitary Blue" was a Newbery Honor book.

I hope you get a chance to read the entire series, Jamie.  smile. I think
the third book, "A Solitary Blue," is my favorite.

Here's the order:

Tillerman 1: Homecoming
Tillerman 2: Dicey's Song
Tillerman 3: A Solitary Blue
Tillerman 4: Runner, The
Tillerman 5: Come a Stranger
Tillerman 6: Sons from Afar
Tillerman 7: Seventeen Against the Dealer

Judy s.

Jamie Prater wrote:

Hi, the books by Cynthia Voigt about a girl named Dicey and her brothers
and sister that starts out with homecoming doesn't have series numbers or 


anything on them.  I read homecoming and Dicey's song and thought that
was all there was about that family. It wasn't until searching around on 


the bookshare site and/or looking at the new books that I learned there
were four others. I don't want to read them out of order, but because of 


how they're written, I may inevitably do that.  I know there's sons from
afar, the runner, seventeen against the dealer, and come a stranger but
I'm not sure in what chronological order they are.  This info would be
helpful on bookshare if it can be found.


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