Open Book (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
1. Today's first line title is from a 1915 novel by Jean Webster called Dear Enemy. As is often the case, when I came across the line, it resonated immediately with my current mindset. 2. The post from yesterday about...
U Krakovianki (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008
I am a bit shocked by how much I read in January. If I kept up at this rate, I'd end up reading over 100 books in 2008. I have read over 100 books in other years, but it does seem unlikely. I reverted to my old habit, a couple of times, of reading a whole whole book in a single sitting or two. It's not that hard for me to do, but it does require neglecting some things that probably shouldn't be neglected....
U Krakovianki (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Jean Webster is best-known as the author of Daddy Long-Legs , an epistolary novel about a girl from an orphanage who is given the opportunity to attend college. I've always had a vague idea that it was a girls' book--that if it were contemporary, it would have a "YA" label attached to it, and I think that would be relatively appropriate. I listened to the lesser-known sequel, Dear Enemy at my much...
yarnstorm (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
Since 1st September I have been surrounded by Enid Blyton, L.M. Montgomery, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Noel Streatfeild, E. Nesbit, Joyce Lankester Brisley, Arthur Ransome, Michael Bond, and E.B. White. Johanna Spyri, Eve Garnett and Eleanor H. Porter and many more...
yarnstorm (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
I need to ask a favour. Does anyone know anything about molasses candy pulls (as in Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster) or maple syrup candy (sugar on snow etc as in Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder)....
