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The most exciting news I have heard in a while?! The next Earths Children book comes out in March!!!!

If any one asks me to pick my favorite book or author, I can't do it. However, I can confidently say that The Earths Children series by Jean M. Auel is probably my favorite series of books, EVER. My mother gave me the first one when I was twelve because I had read everything in the house and was bored. At first she wasn't going to let me read it because there is a good amount of sex in them, but then relented and let me have it. The first book is called Clan of The Cave Bear. It's about a little Cro-magnon girl who's family dies in an earthquake and she is found by a tribe of Neanderthals. They raise he as their own even though they find her strange and ugly. The whole first book is her life with these people. The second one introduces new characters and new places and the story spans a content as she travels from one side of B.C. Europe to the other through five books. I love these books for the story line, the wonderful characters, the immense amount of knowledge of plants, animals and just life in general back then. I really recommend them to anyone who loves history and is interested in any kind of Anthropology or sociology, even old pre-christian religion. I own the first two books in first edition hardback but they're DESTROYED from the amount of times I've read them. I mean I lost the book jackets because the creased to much they fell apart, I have them somewhere in another book so they won't get MORE ruined. I've got the rest in paperback but I've had to replace those several times since they always end up falling apart and losing pages. One day I will buy a whole set in hardbound.

The first book was written long before I was born and the last book came out in 2002. There were twelve years between the fourth and fifth book and I was so scared that the sixth book would never be published. It's the last book in the series and I worried JMA would die before it was finished. I was so excited to stumble across an article online reporting the release date.

I grew up with these books. I'm off to pre order my copy right fucking now >.<
These books are more popular than most of the best sellers out now but no one I know has read them. Aside from my mother and aunts. I'm dying I'm so excited.