@abbycakes I love The Yearling movie -- I should try the book. The Doll Maker is another movie I love that I've never read the book of.

@KevinCarson1 one of my fav quotes
"He watched the sun rise beyond the grape arbor. In the thin golden light the young leaves and tendrils of the Scuppernong were like Twink Weatherby's hair. He decided that sunrise and sunset both gave him a pleasantly sad feeling. The sunrise brought a wild, free sadness; the sunset, a lonely yet a comforting one. He indulged his agreeable melancholy until the earth under him turned from gray to lavender and then to the color dried corn husks."

@abbycakes I really like that

@abbycakes You ever read Watership Down? I never read it till adulthood, but I love it. Also T. H. White's Arthurian stuff.

@KevinCarson1 I have not! I own a copy though. My dad gave it to me when I was little, but I never read it because I hate him (:

@abbycakes That's too bad -- I hope the bad associations don't stop you from checking it out. Oddly enough after I read it I saw it displayed at a local bookstore because it was on the high school summer reading list. If I'd been assigned to read it over the summer, I'd probably hate it to my dying day.

@KevinCarson1 hah. Associations are tricky. I'll read it some day I hope

@KevinCarson1 @abbycakes White's Arthurian books! Used to love the earliest novels, the backstory if you wish, but lost interest.
Did he pick up steam and focus? Haven't bothered buying them in years.

@divineeris @abbycakes Been a while since my last reading, but the later stuff had the same tongue-in-cheek attitude and willingness to do great historical violence to the source material. He portrayed Launcelot and all the characters with French names as English, with Welsh-sounding folks like Gawain and Uwain depicted as really campy Celtic stereotypes constantly falling into Gaelic melancholia and even referring to Arthur & Co as "Sassenachs."

@KevinCarson1 @abbycakes hmm, sassenachs was about when I lost it. P-Celtic and Q-Celtic, you know.

@divineeris @abbycakes No way to move the story from the 5th century to the Age of Chivalry without totally fubaring the history. But he twisted it into a pretty entertaining story.