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come_love_sleep
2011-11-23 03:18 am UTC (link)

Twenty years ago I used to hide under the bed with my mother's copy of a hardback compendium of the Harper Hall books, and read it over and over. I had this childish notion that if I was reading those books I would be safe.

Then I got a bit older, started falling in love with other girls, read about the whole Tent Peg Theory and stopped reading Anne McCaffrey. I had friends online talk about how rude she was in person. I lost most of the respect I'd ever had for her.

But.
When I was reading her books, I was safe. In a very, very dark childhood, if I had my hand on one of those books, nothing bad ever happened.

I hope it was as close to painless as is possible in this world, lady. I don't believe in an afterlife, but you made my here-life better, and for that I find I'm only thankful.

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	singe 2011-11-23 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	I'm another one who could identify too well with Menolly and was enthralled and comforted by her Great Escape to the Harper Hall. RIP, Anne, and thank you. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

brennalarose
2011-11-23 04:35 pm UTC (link)

Menolly was my safety net, too. Singing was my escape and, even when I thought my choirmaster was a roaring dick, I knew that his class was my one last bit of shelter before I had to go home. And when I fell daffy in love with dolphins, Mom sent me off to my father's one summer with "The Dolphins of Pern". Surprise, surprise, there was Menolly, all grown up.

I think I'll be blowing most of my con money this year on her books. Seems like you never know what you have until its gone.

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	singe 2011-11-24 02:43 am UTC (link)
	Mice ate my Pern novels. I need to buy them again, too! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2011-11-27 08:53 am UTC (link)
	Cockatiels ate mine. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	singe 2011-11-27 03:09 pm UTC (link)
	Maybe I should try one. Apparently they're tasty! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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