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.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
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SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2005 5:23:15 pm PST #762 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
erikaj - Jan 02, 2005 5:23:57 pm PST #763 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I think that is what happened for me too.
SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2005 5:27:18 pm PST #764 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
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.
Jessica - Jan 02, 2005 5:37:38 pm PST #765 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Re NYC: what ever happened to La Nouvelle Justine? The sadomasochist themed restaurant? They had great, uhm, cheesecake.
Still there, as far as I know. (Although now that I think about it, it's been nearly 3 years since anyone I know was a regular there.)
I must have skimmed -- who's coming here? When?
Ginger - Jan 02, 2005 5:37:49 pm PST #766 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ah, the warmth of Little Women love. I had also meant to comment on AmyLiz's tag, because I almost used it myself for Christmas. I'm afraid I know a lot of Little Women by heart, because I read it (and Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl) whenever I'm sick or depressed.
You're never too old for Anne of Green Gables. Eventually you're too old for some of the sequels, because they're not as good when you're not in the white-hot flame of Anne love.
I still like young adult novels. For a while there, they and mysteries were the last bastions of the plot.
SailAweigh - Jan 02, 2005 5:41:09 pm PST #767 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I always liked Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom more than Little Women. I'm not sure why. Perhaps I got ahold of the unabridged copy of LW and it turned me off. I haven't reread either of them in a while, I think the last time I did was in my 20's.
Hil R. - Jan 02, 2005 5:51:26 pm PST #768 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I started trying to reread all the Anne of Green Gables books a few months ago, but gave up after Anne's House of Dreams. That one, I mostly finished because I can't not finish a book once I've started it, unless it's really horrible, but I just couldn't find a reason to keep on reading beyond that.
Right now, I'm reading Phantom of the Opera, which is lots of ghosty fun.
meara - Jan 02, 2005 5:51:30 pm PST #769 of 10002
Damn, y'all are talky meat! 350 posts! I'ma try to catch up, but I'm tired. And trying to be all "make a new year start at work by being in on time". Uh, we'll see.
Amy - Jan 02, 2005 5:57:29 pm PST #770 of 10002
Because books.
I know a lot of Little Women by heart, because I read it (and Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom and An Old-Fashioned Girl) whenever I'm sick or depressed.
Oh, exactly. It's my comfort food, like I said. I loved An Old-Fashioned Girl, but it's been ages since I read it, and I actually don't know where my copy is.
I've seen (I think) all the Little Women movies, too, including one made-for-TV one that must have been late '70s. I'm gonna have to look that up. I can picture the girl playing Amy but I can't remember her name.
deborah grabien - Jan 02, 2005 6:03:01 pm PST #771 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I didn't come across Alcott until I was an adolescent, and I read her within a month of reading Jane Austen for the first time. I came away from it with, I recall, a definite impression that Regency English girls were way the hell less pi and noble-virgin than Civil War-era American girls. I got to appreciate her a bit more when I reread her a few years ago, though.