Tara ,'Empty Places'
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I love Fight Club. I knew it sounded familiar. I'd love to friend your LJ, by the way, because I lurk there a lot. I love to read what you write. I think you share my brain sometimes.
Little Women readers--do you read the unabridged or an abridged version?
I had no idea there was an abridged version! And I have no idea which mine is. I'll have to check. Hmmm.
I read the unabridged one, but it's been years since I picked it up.
I was glancing through an abridged version of Anne of Green Gables at the bookstore today. It was horrid. They didn't just remove sections, they totally rewrote everything. All that beautiful description gone, with just simple declarative sentences in its place.
I'd love to friend your LJ, by the way, because I lurk there a lot. I love to read what you write. I think you share my brain sometimes.
Oh, friend away, by all means! What's your LJ nom de plume?
What's your LJ nom de plume?
It's amy37. I'll do it now. And then I have to finish freelance copyediting before I conk out. Bleh.
I was glancing through an abridged version of Anne of Green Gables at the bookstore today. It was horrid. They didn't just remove sections, they totally rewrote everything. All that beautiful description gone, with just simple declarative sentences in its place.
I want to find everyone involved in creating this atrocity and beat them up.
That's just ignorant. Keeping in mind, I didn't find Anne till I was almost too old anyway.
I never read Anne until college. I missed a lot of great children's and YA literature at the proper age because as soon as I could read well enough I started reading my mom's library books and picking out books from the adult section.
I did the same thing, Susan. I jumped from children's books to adult stuff around 11-12. I remember reading "Rosemary's Baby" around the time we left Milwaukee and I was 11 then.
I think that is what happened for me too.
It didn't help that I had brothers 3 and 5 years older, too. I was always picking up their stuff and reading it. It's probably one of the reasons I was such a sci fi freak in my teens, it's about all I read exclusively.