The Girl with the Silver Eyes

[badgerbag]

Anyone remember this book? I liked it a lot when I was about 10. I think I bought it at a Scholastic paperback school book sale. Anyway, I just got it in the mail! How exciting! Will it be just as girls-book-of-the-80s, and just as creepy and depressing as I dimly remember it being? The silver-eyed girl was either a mutant or an alien, and had scary powers, and kind of hated everyone. I totally identified.

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update - here's my post about it. It's hard not to just go into all the spoilers. The photo might make you laugh...

http://blogs.feministsf.net/?p=1045

Separated at birth!

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recorded cause I said I would: took half a vicodin (want to sleep without being tormented and woken up by painful knees)

Comments

[rhipowered.livejournal.com]

omg I loved that book. I wrote the author once in grade school--I read a bunch of her others--and she wrote back. Real ink on the signature and everything. It was great.

[j00j.livejournal.com]

I really liked that book at around that age. I might've been a bit older-- 12? I seem to remember she was a mutant? With telepathic powers? But based on the Amazon reviews I'm wrong about at least one of those.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

I own a copy of it, though it's been years since I read it. Ordered it via a Scholastic book catalogue, iirc, not long after my intensive English semester.

[mtfierce.livejournal.com]

I bought it fairly recently as part of my, "Do the books that defined my childhood stand the test of time?" and was pleasantly surprised.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I loved it, but I didn't find it depressing. Also, she doesn't hate everyone. She's just lonely.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

That memory might say more about me when I was 10 than the book, I guess.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Wow it's so good. There's already a crazy old cat lady with an apartment full of great books who goes, "What do you like? True detective stories? Science fiction? Murder mysteries?"

<3 <3 !!!!!

[rae-is.livejournal.com]

Yes!!!! I loved that book so much! And wished I was telekinetic.

[wealhtheow.livejournal.com]

I. LOVED. THAT BOOK.

When I was about 10-14 years old I totally loved every book I could get my hands on where some girl my age was either born with magical powers or developed magical powers when she was 13. Books like this one, or "Self-Portrait with Wings" (girl draws a picture of herself with wings after figuring out just where they'd go on the anatomy, wakes up, has invisible wings, hilarity and figure skating jumps ensue). TV shows too ("Out of This World"). Later on I became an English lit major and figured out it was all puberty allegories. Damn!

I still think about The Girl with the Silver Eyes every time I hear about somebody cutting their finger on a tuna can - I remember when the girl went missing her family found blood and thought there was foul play because she'd cut herself! Also I remember being envious of one of the other special powers kids, a boy who could see in the dark - he used his power to read books in bed after lights-out. Jealous!

Of course I also loved Harriet the Spy. Harriet didn't need any special powers for anyone who's read it to empathize with her.

[deborah]

I loved that book. One of my oddest discoveries of adulthood is that all of my nerd female friends had also loved that book, even though it flew totally under the radar. It wasn't a book teachers or parents would buy for you, it wasn't particularly popular, it wasn't a bestseller -- but everyone I know who's a nerd woman my age adored it.

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Oh god taht book. THAT BOOK. Wow did I overly identify when I was wee.

I'm looking forward to reading your review.

[hjem.livejournal.com]

i loved that book! i remember that she was hated by everyone because of some difference they felt about her. she did have some ability to move stuff with her mind or something, but i remember her trying to keep it secret. even though, people didn't trust her and she was sad and lonely... until she met some other kids like her. there was an apartment. and a grandmother. and that's about all i remember.

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

I loved that book and rebought it last year, but haven't gotten to reading it yet. I remember it speaking to my feelings that No One UNDERSTOOD MY Speshul.