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.
Time for some thrilling heroics.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 12:23:31 pm PDT #7716 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Susan W. - May 19, 2005 4:03:46 pm PDT #7717 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
Jesse - May 19, 2005 4:04:50 pm PDT #7718 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Never mind.
I think this may be an occasion to make note of.
P.M. Marc - May 19, 2005 4:50:22 pm PDT #7719 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Susan W. - May 19, 2005 5:32:40 pm PDT #7720 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
§ ita § - May 19, 2005 8:25:07 pm PDT #7721 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hey! I could still be right. I have nothing left to debate, but I could still be right.
Lyra Jane - May 20, 2005 9:37:28 am PDT #7722 of 10002
Up with the sun
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?)
sumi - May 20, 2005 9:40:40 am PDT #7723 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I can't remember.
I need to reread the parts where Mr. March comes home.
DavidS - May 20, 2005 9:56:04 am PDT #7724 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
At lunch yesterday I browsed through Larry McMurtry's book Folly and Glory which is his fourth book in the Berrybender series. (The Berrybenders being a family, and the stories are set in the earlier days of western exploration, as opposed to the End o' the West Lonesome Dove novels.)
Anybody read Larry McMurtry? I only read him occasionally though I do find him a fine storyteller and I trust his research about the old west. The notable thing though was he makes Joss look like an amateur when it comes to offing loveable characters. He kills off toddlers left and right.
sumi - May 20, 2005 9:57:11 am PDT #7725 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I've read some of the Lonesome Dove novels -- but none of the Barrybender books.