Giles ,'Touched'
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."
a mother name -- not a family nickname, right?
Depends. My paternal grandfather was called "Bapa" by everyone, and I think it's a father name.
Also, my Aunt Faye is Aunt Faye to just about everyone in her family (her daughter calls her Ma Faye, and I've heard people not her children do that too). And her first name isn't even Faye.
Was he called Bapa as a young man before he was married?
Nope. A father name as in he was called that as a father. Wouldn't that count as a family nick, or have I missed something crucial?
Oh! Her childhood. I thought the passage meant they'd called her that in their childhood.
Never mind.
One of the interlibrary loan holds I picked up from the library today came from Yorkshire. Cool, eh? I didn't even know ILL was international.
Never mind.
I think this may be an occasion to make note of.
Very very funny.
You must always discover your sexuality for the first time under the hero's manly control.
One of my critique partners wants me to cut out what I think is a perfectly tasteful and discreet masturbation scene for this very reason. I nodded, smiled, and left it in. I am following the cliche of having a widow from a bad marriage who never had good sex with her husband, so I thought it was more believable for her to fall into bed with the hero quickly if she wasn't completely sexually unawakened--especially since, if anything, she's the aggressor.
Hey! I could still be right. I have nothing left to debate, but I could still be right.
I think Marmee is most likely a mother name, whether it's meant as a phonetic form of "mommy" or just something Louisa May Alcott thought seemed whimsical and appealing. Having her called it as a nickname from childhood, to me, feels like trying too hard on the part of the author of the book Sumi is reading.
(Is she ever called anything in the books other than Marmee or Mrs. March?)
I can't remember.
I need to reread the parts where Mr. March comes home.