I haven't read the Little House books in years. I re-read Little Women all the time, but not Little House. I may have to take a trip to the library today.
Okay, um, I'm lost. Uh, I'm angry, and I'm armed, so if you two have something that you need to work out --
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Strix - May 30, 2008 8:04:27 am PDT #5973 of 28368
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Kathy A - May 30, 2008 8:07:00 am PDT #5974 of 28368
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The early ones are good as children's books, but I love to reread the DeSmet books (On the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, and These Happy Golden Years) as YA classics that really hold up to adult re-reading.
Amy - May 30, 2008 8:09:21 am PDT #5975 of 28368
Because books.
Oh, I agree, Kathy. The DeSmet books were the ones I read over and over again.
Does anyone read Lisa, Bright and Dark anymore?
Susan W. - May 30, 2008 8:13:34 am PDT #5976 of 28368
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Thirding the love of the DeSmet books, especially Little Town and These Happy Golden Years. The Long Winter is a little...harrowing...now that I'm old enough to appreciate just how close to the edge they were.
Connie Neil - May 30, 2008 8:18:21 am PDT #5977 of 28368
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So do people read the abridged or the unabridged Little Women?
I loved the abridged, but the unabridged made me want to smack some of the self-righteousness out of a couple of people.
Kathy A - May 30, 2008 8:24:37 am PDT #5978 of 28368
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
This photo of the three girls (Carrie, Mary, and Laura) is an interesting look at them post-Long Winter. Carrie is obviously still sickly, Mary definitely looks like she would not want to eat "the only bug in the Dakota Territory," and Laura, with that steely look in her eyes and that clenched fist, is ready to take on anything, with a left hook if necessary to help her family.
Strix - May 30, 2008 8:28:38 am PDT #5979 of 28368
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Huh. I don't think I KNEW there was an unabridged version of LW. Which makes me want to immediately run out and read it.
Susan W. - May 30, 2008 8:29:08 am PDT #5980 of 28368
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think my copy of Little Women is unabridged.
I tend to find the self-righteousness in LMA anthropologically interesting--i.e. I still want to smack the characters on occasion, but I'm also thinking, "Huh, so that's what people in that place, time, and social circle got uptight about."
Jessica - May 30, 2008 8:32:23 am PDT #5981 of 28368
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hey, it sucks to be a teenage girl no matter what time period it is.
Especially if you're dying of consumption.
Kathy A - May 30, 2008 8:34:01 am PDT #5982 of 28368
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Little Women is relatively light on the sanctimony and self-righteousness when compared to some of her other screeds/novels. Jack and Jill is a tract on alternative home education that reeks sanctimony. Eight Cousins is only saved by those male cousins and their entertaining ways, as well as Rose's little feminine vanities that make her human (I love the scene where she gets tempted into having her ears pierced and she tries to hide it for fear of being teased over her girly ways).