I wonder about Trixie Belden.
Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.
Spike ,'Showtime'
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."
Dana - Mar 26, 2017 4:14:19 pm PDT #24438 of 28260
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Steph L. - Mar 26, 2017 4:21:33 pm PDT #24439 of 28260
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I have a bunch of Trixie Beldens, and I'm a little afraid to look.
Jesse - Mar 26, 2017 4:25:51 pm PDT #24440 of 28260
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, same. (On the wondering. I think my mother threw out my books.)
Sue - Mar 26, 2017 4:44:19 pm PDT #24441 of 28260
hip deep in pie
I have a bunch that were published in the 70s-80s and I reread them about a decade ago. ETA: I don't have the whole series. I don't remember any obviously awful racism. The thing that struck me on re-reading them was how rich everyone was. Trixie always seems to say her family are modest/poor, but they own a farmhouse in Westchester. Her dad manages a bank. They're middle class at worst. It's only in comparison with all their filthy rich friends with estates, that they're not that wealthy.
aurelia - Mar 26, 2017 7:42:20 pm PDT #24442 of 28260
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm reading The Sixth Extinction and this... is a hell of a sentence.
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart–the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.
If I were the type to use a highlighter in a book, I would certainly mark this.
Laura - Mar 27, 2017 3:37:33 am PDT #24443 of 28260
Our wings are not tired.
I devoured the Nancy Drew books in my youth. Maybe a mix of the original and the revised. As a child reader and as an adult reader, it is second nature for me to just accept the racism, classism, or other issue as a factor of another time, or fiction. If it wasn't a reality in my world it was shrugged off as belonging to a different time or culture.
It jolts me more as an adult, and if the content is promoting values I find appalling that is one matter, but if it is incidental to one character it doesn't really distract me much.
Vortex - Mar 27, 2017 6:31:08 pm PDT #24444 of 28260
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I happened to reread a Cherry Ames book, and was appalled at how sexist it was. Her oh so great doctor husband was super condescending.
Also, anyone know where I can ahem an epub of Handmaid's Tale? I want to reread it before the show, but can't find my copy. I hate to buy another one. And it's checked out at the library.
Gudanov - Mar 28, 2017 5:12:16 am PDT #24445 of 28260
Coding and Sleeping
Don't know about Handmaid's Tale. I can tell you where to ahem a copy of my book as such places seem to be the only thing that comes up in my Google alert for it.
hippocampus - Mar 28, 2017 6:16:55 am PDT #24446 of 28260
not your mom's socks.
meara - Mar 28, 2017 7:09:07 am PDT #24447 of 28260
Aww! I like how excited and fannish the author sounds!