I need to read Archer's Goon again. It's one of her novels, like The Homeward Bounders, that I couldn't find for years and as a result have read only once on loan from another library. I remember the outline, but not whether I particularly liked any of the characters; from which I conclude I didn't imprint on any.

Fire and Hemlock might have been my first introduction to the Tam Lin story; I read it so young, I can't even remember the first time. The characters themselves didn't go straight into my psyche the way some others did; but I think the story did.

The cover for the copy of Eight Days of Luke we had in the house when I was small gave away the story—a redheaded young man and a giant snake? Pass D'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants, please . . . I didn't get any of the Wagnerian stuff, though. Just all the gods.