It's been so long since I read Old-Fashioned Girl or Eight Cousins. I should reread. I have Little Women practically memorized, though.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
Amy - May 30, 2008 9:09:06 am PDT #5999 of 28370
Because books.
Sophia Brooks - May 30, 2008 9:10:16 am PDT #6000 of 28370
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 28370
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!
Hil R. - May 30, 2008 7:50:08 pm PDT #6002 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.)
Strix - May 30, 2008 8:26:16 pm PDT #6003 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Because jump roping is so much more strenuous than, say, CHILDBIRTH.
meara - May 31, 2008 1:25:29 pm PDT #6004 of 28370
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.
Consuela - May 31, 2008 1:54:39 pm PDT #6005 of 28370
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wasn't it fun? I really enjoyed it. It was just well-done, and quite satisfying.
Steph L. - May 31, 2008 9:31:50 pm PDT #6006 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Oh! I finally remembered to request (and got) "Adios to My Old Life" from the library!
Her "It's Not About the Accent" is just as good, IMO. I think I might even like it better.
I just got Women's World from the library the other day. I haven't started it yet, and I'm wondering if the gimmick is actually going to make it hard for me to follow the story, but the idea was so intriguing that I wanted to at least give it a shot.
meara - May 31, 2008 10:13:57 pm PDT #6007 of 28370
Dang, doesn't look like the Seattle Library has that one, Steph. Hrmph. Maybe the bookstore will. The library had Adios when the bookstore didn't. (Somehow, ordering from Amazon is too much effort. Don't ask me what that's about)
Shir - Jun 02, 2008 3:29:07 am PDT #6008 of 28370
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
What Did the Nobel Laureates Read When They were Young?
I didn't see this here before, but I've skipped a few.