I remember reading, ages ago, that the women at a bookstore in Paris - Shakespeare & Co.? - when Henry Miller asked them for something to read on a long train trip gave him Petite Femmes (apologies for my lousy French spelling). He grabbed it, expecting something with sex ... and was quite disappointed.
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Toddson - May 30, 2008 8:47:48 am PDT #5992 of 28368
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Susan W. - May 30, 2008 8:51:36 am PDT #5993 of 28368
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Mac was totally the guy to get. He's a kind-hearted bookaholic nerd who loves kids--what's not to like?
Cool, so I'm not alone! I've just been in so many discussions of Rose in Bloom that centered on grumbling over Charlie's death and Rose's preference for saintly Mac that I'd concluded it was the "Susan in The Last Battle" incident of the LMA canon.
Sophia Brooks - May 30, 2008 8:54:11 am PDT #5994 of 28368
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
No- I much prefer Mac-- I don't think charlie, really could have been reformed, even through love.
I can't remember if Phoebe (from Rose in Bloom, not Friends) ended up with a significant other. I really wanted her too.
Kathy A - May 30, 2008 8:58:46 am PDT #5995 of 28368
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
That illness of Mac's in Eight Cousins was a complete set-up for their future relationship. Not only does she become more sensitive to him and his plight and taps into her more caring side, but he eventually takes pains to try and be thoughtful of her as well, even though he does try and hide it from his brothers to cover up any wussiness.
Actually, now that I'm talking about it, I want to reread Eight Cousins. I'll have to see if my bookstore has it for me to pick up when I work tomorrow. Maybe it's less "alternative education tract" than I remember Uncle Alec's techniques being.
Susan W. - May 30, 2008 9:02:33 am PDT #5996 of 28368
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I can't remember if Phoebe (from Rose in Bloom, not Friends) ended up with a significant other. I really wanted her too.
She does. The family eventually relents and decides she's good enough for Archie after she risks her own life nursing Uncle Alec through an illness he gets while helping some immigrants. (Gotta love all the class and ethnic issues packed into that subplot!)
Strix - May 30, 2008 9:03:38 am PDT #5997 of 28368
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
It's online, Sophia. thefreelibrary.com
Kathy A - May 30, 2008 9:05:43 am PDT #5998 of 28368
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I forgot about Phoebe and Archie getting together! Phoebe was a great friend for Rose to have, and did a good job balancing the flightiness of some of her aunts.
The store does have Eight Cousins in stock, so I'll be reading it tomorrow night. Yay!
Amy - May 30, 2008 9:09:06 am PDT #5999 of 28368
Because books.
It's been so long since I read Old-Fashioned Girl or Eight Cousins. I should reread. I have Little Women practically memorized, though.
Sophia Brooks - May 30, 2008 9:10:16 am PDT #6000 of 28368
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
It's online, Sophia. thefreelibrary.com
Awesome! of course, I should be working.....
I remembered the subplot, but not the result. I think I sort of paired her with Rose's Uncle (Alec???) in my head, even though that would be such a May/December creepy thing. But I think I picture Phoebe as, say, 20 when Rose was 15. But Uncle thought so highly of Pheobe
-t - May 30, 2008 9:55:08 am PDT #6001 of 28368
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And -t, I know you were probably kidding, but I'd be happy to tell you all what we're reading when in case you or anyone else would like to talk about the books here.
Only halfway kidding, really. I could use a reason to read something other than the used paperbacks I keep picking up. Not that they aren't perfectly fine, but extending the old education is always nice.
Which is to say, yes, please do!