#scott o’dell

[nobondiscloser]

Rereading old favourites is the best. Ultimate cosy read.

I’ve been rereading lots of books I read as a kid, especially middle school to early high school. The ones I loved then, I still love now as an adult. I also have a new appreciation and understanding that I didn’t have when I read them as a child and/or teenager.

[marvel-mistress-padawan]

I read this book when I was about 13 years old which would have been 1995. I checked it out of the public library and it quickly became one of the most favorited books I had ever read. This is the story of Saint Francis of Assisi told from the perspective of Saint Claire. It was strange that an isolated homeschooled protestant girl could become so enamored with a book about Catholic characters, but I was. By the time I was finished with it, I wanted to become a nun. Of course I never told my family about the book or about my wish to become a nun. I returned the book to the library and sadly mourned the fact that Baptists don’t have holy orders. My existence thus far had been very patriarchal and I had been taught that women weren’t meant to have careers but to only be wives and mothers. I think what appealed to me about being a nun was the fact that nuns were educated and had careers. They could be nurses or doctors or teachers or scholars and they lived in groups of women without having men to boss them around. These women committed themselves to God and got to be more than just bearers of children.

Anyway I hadn’t thought about this book in years until today. I never became a nun or converted to become Catholic. I am aware that the Catholic church has its share of problems as do most religious denominations. But I am glad Scott O’dell wrote down this story. It was a book that helped expand my sheltered mind into what I am today.

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern as norma carlisle (with blythe danner as mary o’dell & campbell scott as alan carlisle) in “the chaperone,” promotional shots (released 2018) | 📸: barry wetcher/pbs distribution

[memetaped]

black star, bright dawn taken from the 1987 scott o’dell book.

the wind has no head and no body. only a voice.

wake me in five hours, please.

it is foolish for you to go in this storm.

you can’t be a half believer.

watch for moose.

i saw a candy wrapper and knew you had camped there.

when you reach the limits of your strength, then you will find your voice.

you are tired. your eyes are tired.

this is no time to head off in a blizzard.

you can lose a finger or two or a hand, a foot, and maybe your life.

you’re quiet. you’re worrying about snow.

i have seen a dozen cases like this before.

night is best for traveling.

you love books.

we will sleep until we have good daylight.

listen and think about what you hear, but depend upon yourself.

you can get into trouble.

there isn’t a cloud in the sky. what a fine day to hunt.

i’ll tell you some fancy tales you never heard.

you freeze and think you are going to die and wish you would.

it is best to build a snowhouse.

you took a wrong turn.

it’s the same wolf pack i saw before.

everyone will be running fast today.

two thousand dollars is a lot of money.

i get lonesome. it’s good to have people to talk to.

you look fine. how do you feel?

[annemariewrites]

List of all the books I’ve read

just wanted to keep a list of what I’ve read throughout my life (that I can remember)

Fiction:

“Where the Red Fern Grows,” Wilson Rawls

“The Outsiders,” S. E. Hinton

“The Weirdo,” Theodore Taylor

“The Devil’s Arithmetic,” Jane Yolen

“Julie of the Wolves series,” Jean Craighead George

“Soft Rain,” Cornelia Cornelissen

“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Scott O’Dell

“The Twilight series,” Stephanie Mayer

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee

“Gamer Girl,” Mari Mancusi

“Redwall / Mossflower / Mattimeo / Mariel of Redwall,” Brian Jacques

“1984,” and  “Animal Farm,” George Orwell

“Killing Mr. Griffin,” Lois Duncan

“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain

“Rainbow’s End,” Irene Hannon

“Cold Mountain,” Charles Frazier

“Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys

“Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Edgar Allan Poe

“Lord of the Flies,” William Golding

“The Great Gatsby,” F Scott Fitzgerald

“The Harry Potter series,” JK Rowling

“The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns,” John Green

“Thirteen Reasons Why,” Jay Asher

“The Hunger Games series,” Suzanne Collins

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Stephen Chbosky

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” EL James

“Speak,” and “Wintergirls,” Laurie Halse Anderson

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood

“Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor

“Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte

“Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys

“The Haunting of Hill House,” Shirley Jackson

“The Chosen,” Chaim Potok

“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman

“Till We Have Faces,” CS Lewis

“One Foot in Eden,” Ron Rash

“Jim the Boy,” Tony Earley

“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,” Maggie O’Farrell

“A Land More Kind Than Home,” Wiley Cash

“A Parchment of Leaves,” Silas House

“Beowulf,” Seamus Heaney

“The Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon / Hannibal / Hannibal Rinsing,” Thomas Harris

“Cry the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton

“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville

“The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings trilogy / The Silmarillion,” JRR Tolkien

“Beren and Luthien,” JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

“Children of Blood and Bone / Children of Virtue and Vengeance,” Tomi Adeyemi

“Soundless,” Richelle Mead

“The Life She Was Given,” Ellen Marie Wiseman

“The Girl with the Louding Voice,” Abi Dare

“A Song of Ice and Fire series / Fire and Blood,” GRR Martin

“A Separate Peace,” John Knowles

“The Bluest Eye,” and “Beloved,” Toni Morrison

“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley

“The Giver / Gathering Blue / Messenger / Son,” Lois Lowry

“The Ivory Carver trilogy,” Sue Harrison

“The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck

“The God of Small Things,” Arundhati Roy

“Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury

“The Night Circus,” Erin Morgenstern

“Sunflower Dog,” Kevin Winchester

“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith

“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie

“Bridge to Terabithia,” Katherine Paterson

“The Good Girl,” Mary Kubica 

“The Last Unicorn,” Peter S Beagle

“Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan

“The Sworn Virgin,” Kristopher Dukes

“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker

“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston

“The Light Between Oceans,” ML Stedman

“Yellowface,” RF Kuang

“A Flicker in the Dark,” Stacy Willingham

“One Piece Novel: Ace’s Story,” Sho Hinata

“Black Beauty,” Anna Seawell

“The Weight of Blood,” Tiffany D. Jackson

“Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China,” Hualing Nieh, Sau-ling Wong

“The Weight of Blood,” Laura McHugh

“Everybody’s Got to Eat,” Kevin Winchester

“That Was Then, This is Now,” / “Rumble Fish,” / “Tex,” / “Taming the Star Runner,” S. E. Hinton

“Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World,” Yoshi Yoshitani

“Memoirs of a Geisha,” Arthur Golden

“The Best Awful,” Carrie Fisher

Non-fiction:

“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl,” Anne Frank

“Night,” Elie Wiesel

“Invisible Sisters,” Jessica Handler

“I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban,” Malala Yousafzai

“The Interesting Narrative,” Olaudah Equiano

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Harriet Jacobs

“The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher

“Adulting: How to Become a Grown Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps,” Kelly Williams Brown

“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie

“Carrie Fisher: a Life on the Edge,” Sheila Weller

“Make ‘Em Laugh,” Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway

“How to be an Anti-Racist,” Ibram X Kendi

“Maus,” Art Spiegelman

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou

“Wise Gals: the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage,” Nathalia Holt

“Persepolis,” and “Persepolis II,” Marjane Satrapi

“How to Write a Novel,” Manuel Komroff

“The Nazi Genocide of the Roma,” Anton Weiss-Wendt

“Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz,” Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

“Two Watches,” Anita Tarlton

“The Ages of the Justice League: Essays on America’s Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times,” edited by Joseph J. Darowski

“Shockaholic,” Carrie Fisher

“Breaking Loose Together: the Regulator Rebellion in Pr-Revolutionary North Carolina,” Marjoleine Kars

[luucypevensie]

🦓 + Yasmin Ahmad??

YAS, MY LAST NEW GLEE BB! THANK YOU FAE!

1. Their favorite sweet treat: Yasmin’s mother makes an amazing Halva (which is the Iranian version of flan, but better)

2. Their birth flower: Aster (September)

3. Their favorite urban legend: The Celebrity Death Rule of Threes (where movie stars, celebrities, and politicians die in groups of three)

4. Their favorite classical monster: Vampires

5. Their favorite YA novel: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

6. The number one best-selling fiction book from the day they were born: The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (September 30th, 1995)

7. An irrational fear of theirs: That Matt thinks she’s snooty and uppity like all the other students at McKinley

8. Their favorite dish: Yasmin’s father makes a mean Khoresh e havij (Stewed carrots and meat)

9. Their favorite DCOM: The Color of Friendship

10. Their favorite mythical creature: Unicorns

[peregrination-studies]

8, 21, and 30! 💕

Hi friend!! Thanks for the ask! 💕

8) Favourite book quote?

Oooo this is tough. I have a bunch of lists of favorite quotes within different themes, and I never really pick a single favorite. For this I’ll just pull out a recent quote I liked from my list “quotes that speak to me spiritually”

“In… the sage words of David Brower, ‘It’s far too late and things are far too bad for us to indulge in pessimism’”

-The New Carbon Architecture by Bruce King

I like that it makes optimism into a conscious and deliberate choice to combat the dire situations of this day and age. It’s optimism but not blind optimism. It’s carefully weighed and considered, and I just love that scientists are engaging with that now, recognizing that it’s wiser to keep our spirits up than to allow ourselves to drown in all the negative data.

21) Favourite character?

ALSO tough. One character I will always admire is Annabeth Chase. But a FAVORITE character.. hmm hmm hmm. I am a’pondering. I’ll always love Mark Watney (The Martian by Andy Weir), Pi Patel (Life of Pi by Yann Martel), Cress Darnell (Cress by Marissa Meyer), and Karana (Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell). They’re all my favorites!!!

Also, one of my friends wrote a brilliant story a while back with a character who might just be my actual all time favorite. I don’t know if she’d want me to mention the character by name or story details, but she knows how much I adore him. Yea, I think that’s my answer. Him.

30) Book recommendation?

For you, I recommend Instant Karma by Marissa Meyer, The Comfort Book by Matt Haig, & The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges. Also maybe Among the Beasts and Briars by Ashley Poston? I realized in writing this I really don’t know your taste in books all too well beyond a few of your favorites but I think you could like those!

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[maddestmewmew]

jeusus fucking christ does it ever hit you super hard how Not Long Ago certain historical events were?? im shelving books and theres a book i read as a child, isle of the blue dolphins. its about a native girl. when this book was written native children were being put in schools and the last one wouldnt close for another 30 years. the ICWA wouldnt be put in place for another 15 years.

next to it on the shelf is another book he wrote, about a slave. scott o’dell was born less than 30 years after slavery was abolished in USamerica. he probably had parents, aunts, uncles, maybe even cousins that owned slaves.

he died in 1998.

[zugzwang4]

Marq Vincent Perez, 2017

James Harris Jackson 2017

Brandon Russell 2017 and 2023

White Rabbit Militia 2017

Bernardino Bolatete 2017

Nicholas Rose 2018

Watsonville Planned Parenthood July 2018

Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr. 2018

Robert Gregory Bowers 2018

Scott Beierle 2018

Vincent Vetromile, Brian Colaneri, Andrew Crysel 2019

Wesley Brian Kaster 2019

John T. Earnest 2019 x2

Patrick Crusius 2019

Richard Holzer 2019

James Gulick 2020

Eduardo Moreno 2020

Nicholas Proffitt 2020

Armando Hernandez Jr. 2020

Christopher Brenner Cook, Jonathan Allen Frost, ackson Matthew Sawall 2020

Dushko Vulchev 2020

The fucking January 6th insurrection in 2021

Nathan Allen 2021

Ian Benjamin Rogers and Jarrod Copeland 2021

Tres Genco 2021

Larry Edward Foxworth 2021

Ryan Faircloth 2021

Franklin Barrett Sechriest 2021

Capital Care, Toledo Ohio, arson 2021

Mark Thomas Reno 2021

Payton Gendron 2022

Lorna Roxanne Green 2022

Joshua Brereton 2022

Bryan C. Perry and Jonathan S. O’Dell 2022

David DePape 2022

Anderson Lee Aldrich 2022

Can you point me toward the left-wing political violence that motivated these people to attempt or commit right-wing political violence? 🤔

we said bring back assassinations but please try to be successful next time guys 🙏 I beg you

[flandersfamily]

Just Do Something (& More December Reads)

I finished reading seven books in December, including Kevin DeYoung’s Just Do Something, which was excellent. Doing so brought my total count for the year up to 72, which is an average of six books a month. Read on for my impressions of each title in this last batch of books for the year! The 7 Books I Read in December Zia by Scott O’Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins was one of my very favorite…

[lboogie1906]

Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953) is a children’s book author. He was born in Flint, and the city serves as a setting in some of his books. His parents were Dr. Herman E. Curtis, a chiropodist, and Leslie Curtis, an educator. He had four siblings: an older sister named Lindsey, and younger siblings Cydney, David, and Sarah. After graduating high school, he worked in an automobile factory and took night classes in the meantime. He went to the University of Michigan-Flint full-time, after working for several years, and graduated in 2000.

His first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963, was created after he quit his thirteen-year job at the Flint Fisher Body plant and dedicated a year to writing. It was the first children’s book to win both the prestigious Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Prize. His second book, Bud, Not Buddy, was another hit, winning the aforementioned awards, as well. The story is a partially fictional account of the life of his grandfather, who was the leader of the band Herman Curtis and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression during the 1930s. He has been awarded dozens of other accolades for his eight published works. His latest book, Elijah of Buxton, won the Newbery, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2008.

In 2009 he launched a project called “Writing Adventures” hosted at UM-Flint. The program, geared toward Flint’s fourth graders, has students attend a talk by him about his life and writing career and how young people can get started in creative writing. He gives two prompts for students to write a narrative essay, which is submitted for a citywide competition.

He resides in Windsor, Canada, with his wife Kaysandra Sookram Curtis, and two children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[effulgentpoet]

endless list of favorites:

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS (Scott O’Dell)

I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. At first it seemed like a small shell afloat on the sea. Then it grew larger and was a gull with folded wings. At last in the rising sun it became what it really was - a red ship with two red sails.

[spidermaninlove]

Tom & Z’s Friends and Family Key

JB = Jacob Batalon

Alex = Alex Roberts, Tom’s friend and colleague (He worked on FFH and Harry’s recent short)

Darnell = Z’s assistant

Kazembe (Kaz) and Claire = Z’s parents

Dom and Nikki = Tom’s parents

Noon = Z’s dog

Tessa = Tom’s dog

Tom’s grandparents = Granny Tess (Dom’s mother), and Robert and Christina (Berry) Frost (Nikki’s parents),  Note:  Z spent the day with the Frosts along with Tom & Harry in Murano, Italy while they were filming FFH.

Z’s grandparents:  Daphne Stoermer, Kaz’s mom (Idk her name)

Brooke = JB’s current gf

Gracie = Haz’s gf

Audrey = Tuwaine’s former gf

Exes = Elle (Ellicia Lotherington), TJ/Trevor Jackson (AKA the rat), BL/JE (Jacob Elordi), N (Nadia Parkes), and O (Olivia Bolton)

Anthony Drewett = Tom’s costumer

Rachael Speke = Tom’s UK MUA

Christine Nelli = Tom’s LA MUA

Ursula Stephen = Z’s hairstylist

Sheika Daley = Z’s MUA

Law Roach = Z and Tom’s stylist

Jack English = Tom’s bodyguard

Pretty Ricky (Rick Lipton) = Tom’s dialect coach

Scott Bailey = Tom’s golfing coach

Ben Perkins = Tom’s acting coach

George Cottle, Greg Townley, Luke Scott:  Spider-man/Uncharted stunt crew

Nick Evans = Billy Elliott director

Scotty Newman = Z’s publicist, I believe

Tom’s trainers (past and present) = George Ashwell (current), Duffy Gaver (NWH), Yousif Mahdi, Louis Chandler (Tom was recently boxing with Louis at Dogpound in LA)

Tom’s siblings =  Harry, Sam and Paddy

Z’s siblings = Kizzy, EZ, and Samuel (David), Jason (brother-in-law, Kizzy’s husband), Latonja...

Kendrick (Kendrick Sampson) = Darnell and Z’s friend.

Zink =  Z’s niece

Cubb Coleman and Whitney Boswell... = Z’s cousins

Tony O’Dell = Z’s former acting coach

Sam Levinson = Euphoria producer

Kadeem Hardison = Z’s former costar and friend (Tana Roller is his partner)

Tom cousins = James Holland, Ella Frost, Sydney Frost...

JA Bayona = The Impossible director

Z’s friends =  Kamil McFadden, Dominque (Dom) Battiste, Deja Carter, Hunter Schafer, Carmen Key...

Tom’s friends =  Harrison Osterfield (Haz), Tuwaine Barrett, Alex Roberts, Fox Jackson, Ollie Gardner, David (Seadon-Young), Liam O’Shea, Ben Angliss...

This is a good start.  If you guys want to add anyone or correct anything, please inbox me for consideration.  

[phalacrocoraxdreams]

when i got back from our appointment, i walked to the park and then around my neighborhood. it is a deeply beautiful day today. i had the feeling in my body of being loved and cared for, and i decided to listen to the matthew shepard passion.

the matthew shepard passion always makes me weep. as i was listening to “we tell each other stories,” which has the lyrics “i am open to hear this story about a boy, an ordinary boy / who never had expected his life would be this story,” and crying, i walked by a little free library which contained island of the blue dolphins by scott o’dell; i stood and read the first few pages. juana maria of san nicolas island, im sure, also did not expect her life to be that story.

there is such enormity of pain in this world, and such enormity of beauty. no one will ever understand pain in full. but i will accept a life of walking closer to a peaceful agreement with it.

[peaceandnature]

5 Good Books:

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Red Sails to Capri by Ann Weil