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About meA fifty-something wife and mother who has read voraciously for as long as I've been able to read. I am descended from librarians, so I prefer new and unused books and generally keep mine in near perfect condition. My major occupation is having fun with my computer; I get paid for editing a church newsletter and doing the weekly bulletin. In my spare time I knit, read, knit, read, play a computer game, watch TV, knit, and read. Oh, and raise foster kittens along with my DH and our four permanent owners, Angel, Simba, Willow, and Xander. (My picture shows Simba as a kitten, hanging with his Mom.)
About my libraryLeans heavily to mysteries, especially of the cozy variety. I prefer series and written about or by (or both) women. I do also dip into science fiction and fantasy, as well as Harry Potter. I like unabridged audiobooks that I can listen to in the car. I almost always buy paperbacks, as I can spread my book dollar farther that way, although there are authors I'm anxious enough to read that I'll buy them in hardback. In my youth I read a lot of the classics -- War and Peace (unabridged), Dickens, Hawthorne, Jane Austen, Harper Lee. That has left me free to read for fun for the rest of my life! Jane Austen and Harper Lee and James Michener I have read many times and will probably read many times yet to come. I will not be listing my entire collection of books here; that would require gathering them all up and I don't think I'll live long enough for that!
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I will get back to you on the stylistic conventions I noticed in both LM Alcott's blood and thunders and Stoker's DRACULA. I'll need to quote some passages directly to make my point, and it's a bit too late for me to get to it tonight. If I forget, nag me about it, okay?
I just bought a box of children's classics at our local Goodwill bookstore -- and got a hardback copy of ROSE IN BLOOM, which I'd never read. It was an interesting book -- one I didn't like as much as her others. The reason is simple -- I was just too uncomfortable with Rose herself. She was too perfect -- rich, beautiful, good-hearted. The only struggle in the book was with Prince Charlie, who lives high (aka alcoholism), and even then Rose didn't take a very active part in trying to reform him.
It's odd -- most of LMA's female characters are far more active than Rose. Even Amy and Meg, in LITTLE WOMEN, have struggles of one sort or another -- Rose just seemed to much like a 2 dimensional cardboard cut-out to me. But if you reread it in the next few months, I'd love to know your take on the book as an adult reader.
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posted by RachelfromSarasota at 10:18 pm (EST) on Jun 24, 2008
Louisa May Alcott referred to her well-known classic books for children, like LITTLE WOMEN, EIGHT COUSINS, LITTLE MEN, JACK AND JILL, etc. as "pap for children" in a letter to a friend. I confess to enjoying both her children's books and her "blood and thunders."
It's funny, though, b/c the writing flaws I noticed in DRACULA are the same elements that bothered me in Alcott's work (I've just read a whole new bunch of her "blood and thunders" and a few of her less well-known classics -- less well known to me, at any rate). I guess it was a Victorian writing convention.
posted by RachelfromSarasota at 9:46 pm (EST) on Jun 22, 2008