While She Knits

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Gosh, it's been quiet around here!

What great things have you read recently that are totally obscure?  Something other people are unlikely to ever find on their own?

I'll go first:

Boris by Cynthia Rylant - if you've ever loved a pet, you'll like this one.  So sweet!  And, it's told in verse.

A teen sci-fi series that you'll like if you're a Star Trek nerd * - the Galahad series by Dom Testa.  A comet has infected the earth with a disease that is killing off all the adults.  As a last-ditch effort to save the human race, scientists build a spaceship to travel to another planet, and choose 251 disease-free teens who must learn how to get the ship there, and colonize the planet.  Lots of fun.  The first book is The Comet's Curse.



* No, not me.  Not a bit.

Comments

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

I just finished the Griffin and Sabine trilogy, which isn't obscure, but it is different from most of the things we talk about here. Actually, that's not really fair --it's different from most things in general! If you haven't read it, it's made up of removable postcards and letters, which are reproduced in the books (envelopes and all). It is a most mysterious correspondence between two people who have never met, but know each other...

One book series which is sadly obscure at my library is the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. I adore them, but nobody at the library has even heard of them --including all the kids librarians I've asked! Of course, they are Finnish... I read them as a child but have no idea how known they actually are. Are there any Moomin fans here?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yes! Did you know there's a moomin graphic novel?

~mwt

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Yes!! Or... wait. I know there are moomin comics. They're wonderful, I've just started reading them recently. Very exciting to have new moomin things I haven't read yet! They're collected into a book...or a number of books, I think.

Are they what you mean?

I went travelling recently (my first trip abroad on my own/with a friend!) and I found a moomin store, in London! Full of moomin things! It was a dangerous time for my wallet.

[deirdrej.livejournal.com]

I have loved the Moomins since I was a young child! We had them in my grade school library, and I was a complete Moomin addict! So these days, I make sure that we get the reprints in our library. I wish they went out more -- but, you know, it's funny about kids -- every once in a while you can find an open-minded one who will try something new. But often they only want to read what their friends are reading.

And yes, Megan, there's a graphic novel -- 3 volumes of it! Sometimes, I can get kids to read that, and then they'll take out the books.

(Because I am a sneaky librarian!)

~D.