Oh, I read that post. And then forgot I did. Sorry!
I think I remember one of the books you have pictured there, Christina Katerina and The Box. If not, I remember something a lot like it.
When you look back at this, in the three seconds it'll take you to turn to dust, I think you'll find the mistake was touching my stuff.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 5:52:59 am PDT #18534 of 28296
Because books.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 5:57:14 am PDT #18535 of 28296
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I think I remember one of the books you have pictured there, Christina Katerina and The Box. If not, I remember something a lot like it.
I still have that one. You know, if you ever come to visit.
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 6:01:56 am PDT #18536 of 28296
Because books.
I just found a blog post on it! And I DO remember it! And now I want it back desperately.
I'm also dying to get my hands on a copy of Jellybeans For Breakfast (same series of books, the Parents Magazine Press ones), but I can only ever find copies for over $100.
I will come visit! Soon(ish).
megan walker - Apr 25, 2012 6:08:06 am PDT #18537 of 28296
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I just found a blog post on it! And I DO remember it! And now I want it back desperately.
I remember Trudy's cries of delight back in NY when she realized I had it.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2012 6:09:33 am PDT #18538 of 28296
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I like Secret Garden much better than Little Princess. Little Princess was OK, but the plucky tireless little girl who found a way to be happy in the midst of all problems could get old quickly. Mary Lennox from Secret Garden cried and threw tantrums and seemed much more like a real girl.
Kat - Apr 25, 2012 6:53:02 am PDT #18539 of 28296
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I would use poetry.
"Come live with me and be my love."
Or Andrew Marvell "If We Had But World Enough and Time"
Also, any scene with Iago in Othello.
Scrappy - Apr 25, 2012 7:38:36 am PDT #18540 of 28296
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also The Secret Garden has Dickon. I loves me some Dickon.
JZ - Apr 25, 2012 3:05:42 pm PDT #18541 of 28296
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I like The Secret Garden very much (except for the way Mary just disappears at the very end, and I love the musical for rectifying that), but Little Princess will always be my go-to comfort book. And Sara does in fact get despairing and rageful and completely lose her shit at one point, so she's not 100% undiluted pluck.
And I love the ending -- unlike either of the Hollywood film versions, in the book she finds a happy ending without having all the horrible things she went through deus-ex-machina'd away. Of everything she suffered, the worst part was that her beloved father had died. And, in the end, he's still dead, and always will be. She's warm and safe and loved and happy again, but it is a different happiness than she had before, a happiness that encompasses that loss.
I seriously loathe the movies, whose message seems to be that if you're plucky and brave and endure, eventually all the terrible things that happened to you will un-happen. Fuck that lie.
Amy - Apr 25, 2012 3:07:52 pm PDT #18542 of 28296
Because books.
Of everything she suffered, the worst part was that her beloved father had died. And, in the end, he's still dead, and always will be.
So much this. I was astounded when I saw the Shirley Temple version, even though I was still a kid at the time (or at most an early teen). I was all, "That's not what happened!"
Sophia Brooks - Apr 25, 2012 3:10:02 pm PDT #18543 of 28296
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
(except for the way Mary just disappears at the very end, and I love the musical for rectifying that)
Plus, you gt Mandy Patinkin saying "And. THIS. IS. YOUR. GAAAARRRRDEEEEN." But it still makes me cry every time.
Wasn't there also a Hallmark Hall of Fame Secret Garden that had Dickon going off to war and Mary pining for him?