Aw, I had forgotten dressing the chicken, but it's coming back to me.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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."
-t - Mar 20, 2017 2:11:06 pm PDT #24424 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Amy - Mar 20, 2017 2:57:46 pm PDT #24425 of 28344
Because books.
It looks the original books were from the '60s, and the new ones (written mostly in the '90s by a family member) focused on Amelia as a child.
I have such an urge to go back and read the first original one. Dressing the chicken and dusting the furniture is coming back to me, too!
Gris - Mar 20, 2017 3:39:45 pm PDT #24426 of 28344
Hey. New board.
I read that one recently to my son. It was at my mother-in-law's house. He liked it! Dusting the furniture, dressing the chicken, drawing the curtains. Puns.
sj - Mar 20, 2017 4:33:14 pm PDT #24427 of 28344
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I had one Amelia Bedelia book as a kid. It was an I Can Read book, and I think it had something to do with baseball, maybe?
Kate P. - Mar 20, 2017 7:11:30 pm PDT #24428 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yeah, we recently read the original Amelia Bedelia book to Rose (it was in a Little Free Library -- score!), and she loved it. Dressing the chicken and drawing the drapes were her favorites. We found another one where she gets fired and goes around town trying to find a new job, which was less funny to me (or maybe it's just that the premise wears thin after a while), but I think Rose liked them both.
Amy - Mar 21, 2017 6:01:21 am PDT #24429 of 28344
Because books.
zuisa - Mar 21, 2017 7:01:06 am PDT #24430 of 28344
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Got a little sidetracked by other projects, but I finished Code Name Verity last night. Sat blubbering on my couch for a bit, but dang. What a story.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2017 6:51:47 am PDT #24431 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
On the kids' books front, I've been re-reading Nancy Drew books, and at least as far as I've gotten (part-way through the third), they are totally non-offensive! Which was kind of a relief, to be honest. As long as you don't mind that she's apparently out of high school with no plans for college, I think these are totally safe to recommend to modern kids.
Sue - Mar 26, 2017 7:35:45 am PDT #24432 of 28344
hip deep in pie
Jesse, they were edited in the 60s or 70s? So if you find early editions, there's a fair bit of casual racism in them.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2017 7:39:16 am PDT #24433 of 28344
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now THAT does not surprise me! So, the go-ahead only applies to the edited version where all the servants are (apparently) white and half the villains are noticeable by their pale blue eyes.