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These three are old favourites. Still very good! It's odd thought to be reminded of both how very good they are AND how very ridic and obnoxious the overt moralizing is. But it manages to rise above the moralizing!
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here have a WHOLE PILE of book thoughts!
Oct. 6th, 2014 05:48 pm( Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen )
( When Patty Went to College, by Jean Webster )
( Just Patty, by Jean Webster )
( Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson )
( The Laughing Cavalier, by Baroness Emma Orczy )
( The Wheat Princess, by Jean Webster )
( Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell )
( The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, all by L. Frank Baum )
( When Patty Went to College, by Jean Webster )
( Just Patty, by Jean Webster )
( Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson )
( The Laughing Cavalier, by Baroness Emma Orczy )
( The Wheat Princess, by Jean Webster )
( Cranford, by Elizabeth Gaskell )
( The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, all by L. Frank Baum )
Tags:
- anent: book thoughts 1,
- author: elizabeth gaskell,
- author: emma orczy,
- author: jane austen,
- author: jean webster,
- author: l frank baum,
- author: robert louis stevenson,
- book theme: fantasy,
- book theme: history,
- book theme: history (modernish when writ,
- book theme: kidlit,
- book theme: platonic love,
- book theme: reread,
- book theme: romance,
- book theme: secondary world,
- book theme: ya,
- pub date: 1813,
- pub date: 1853,
- pub date: 1886,
- pub date: 1900,
- pub date: 1903,
- pub date: 1905,
- pub date: 1907,
- pub date: 1908,
- pub date: 1911,
- pub date: 1913,
- rating: **,
- rating: ***,
- rating: ****,
- rating: *****
wow I am SUPER behind on posts about books I've read! I have SIX books in my to-post-about queue and I haven't even drafted my thoughts for any of them!
SO LET'S BEGIN WITH A COUPLE OF FRANCES HODGSON BURNETTS.
Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett! Aka one of the more famous books by said author, except mostly famous these days for being horrifically twee and not the sort of person anybody of sense would actually ENJOY reading.
Apparently I am not a person of sense!
( no really this book is super charming, LET ME TELL YOU MORE )
NEXT: A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also well-known, but this time for being ACTUALLY GOOD. And YEP IT IS.
( I don't know if anything under here even counts as spoilers but I'll cut anyways. )
SO LET'S BEGIN WITH A COUPLE OF FRANCES HODGSON BURNETTS.
Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett! Aka one of the more famous books by said author, except mostly famous these days for being horrifically twee and not the sort of person anybody of sense would actually ENJOY reading.
Apparently I am not a person of sense!
( no really this book is super charming, LET ME TELL YOU MORE )
NEXT: A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also well-known, but this time for being ACTUALLY GOOD. And YEP IT IS.
( I don't know if anything under here even counts as spoilers but I'll cut anyways. )
What Katy Did, etc, by Susan Coolidge
May. 12th, 2013 09:37 pmI just finished rereading the trifecta of "What Katy Did", "What Katy Did At School," and "What Katy Did Next," all by Susan Coolidge. Look I GREW UP ON HILARIOUSLY MORALISTIC OLD KIDS' BOOKS and find them desperately charming and I AM STILL TOTES IN LOVE WITH WHAT KATY DID. The sequels aren't quite as good but once you start you can't stop, you know?
( cut for spoilers for What Katy Did )
I don't have a lot to say about the sequels. They're well enough (and I LOVE Rose Red, a school friend of Katy and her sister Clover; Rose Red is utterly delightful!) but they do not live up to What Katy Did. Of course, this might be entirely blamed on the fact that I didn't own the sequels as a kid, and was only introduced to them later, so they don't have the same nostalgia value. :P
(there are further sequels too, but they're not about Katy so I've never quite bothered to seek them out.)
( cut for spoilers for What Katy Did )
I don't have a lot to say about the sequels. They're well enough (and I LOVE Rose Red, a school friend of Katy and her sister Clover; Rose Red is utterly delightful!) but they do not live up to What Katy Did. Of course, this might be entirely blamed on the fact that I didn't own the sequels as a kid, and was only introduced to them later, so they don't have the same nostalgia value. :P
(there are further sequels too, but they're not about Katy so I've never quite bothered to seek them out.)
