Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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."
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!)
It's online, Sophia. thefreelibrary.com
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!
It's been so long since I read Old-Fashioned Girl or Eight Cousins. I should reread. I have Little Women practically memorized, though.
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
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!
I read the unabridged version of Little Women. The copy I read was a really old hardcover -- it belonged to my mother when she was a kid, and I think it actually may have originally belonged to my grandmother. (For some reason, the books my grandmother saved from her childhood were a few classics, like Little Women and Anne of Green Gables and The Secret Garden, plus a box full of Bobbsey Twins books. Including the first one, where in the first chapter, a girl faints while jump-roping, and everyone says that her parents shouldn't have been letting a girl exert herself so much, because of course she's going to fall ill from it.)
Because jump roping is so much more strenuous than, say, CHILDBIRTH.
Oh! I finally remembered to request (and got) "Adios to My Old Life" from the library! I loved it, but also wanted it to be like, five times as long and detailed. Like, it hardly went into the whole show thing, and the songs, and the rehearsing! It so could've been a much much longer book! And I wanted more on the other contestants! And the process! And her background! And like...it could've....been a trilogy!! Or somethign! Come on! It was good I wanted MORE. Hmph. Hate that.
Wasn't it fun? I really enjoyed it. It was just well-done, and quite satisfying.