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From: sallywrites_at_fuse.net
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:20:09 -0400
how much I liked the Dr. Dolittle books? And the Pollyanna series. I thought Pollyanna was a splendid example, and I've always been dismayed that it's now pejorative to call someone a "Pollyanna." I tried so hard to always be "grateful," as she was, even when people who knew how much I liked to read kept giving me Little Women years before I was ready to read it. Once I discovered Louisa May Alcott, though, I read every one of her books I could find. (I loved Eight Cousins!) So that was my logical next step in book choice progression--I went from series books to the author category--to Alcott, Kate Seredy, Albert Payson Terhune, Hilda Van Stockum, Noel Streatfeild. (Forgive probable spelling errors in the names. I'm too lazy to look things up today.) And I confess that as an adult, I still indulge in my love for series, and for the familiar, with mystery series in book form and on TV. (We just got Netflicks, and I discovered "Numbers." Such fun.) I never became critically adept enough, like K.T., to recogniz e the limitations in books whose enchantment I'd outgrown. I just stopped reading them and went on to my next crush. I've come to accept myself as a hopelessly plebeian reader. It's humbling, but look at all the good company I have! (Dorothy Cannell, anyone?)
Sally Derby
Received on Tue 09 Aug 2011 04:20:09 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:20:09 -0400
how much I liked the Dr. Dolittle books? And the Pollyanna series. I thought Pollyanna was a splendid example, and I've always been dismayed that it's now pejorative to call someone a "Pollyanna." I tried so hard to always be "grateful," as she was, even when people who knew how much I liked to read kept giving me Little Women years before I was ready to read it. Once I discovered Louisa May Alcott, though, I read every one of her books I could find. (I loved Eight Cousins!) So that was my logical next step in book choice progression--I went from series books to the author category--to Alcott, Kate Seredy, Albert Payson Terhune, Hilda Van Stockum, Noel Streatfeild. (Forgive probable spelling errors in the names. I'm too lazy to look things up today.) And I confess that as an adult, I still indulge in my love for series, and for the familiar, with mystery series in book form and on TV. (We just got Netflicks, and I discovered "Numbers." Such fun.) I never became critically adept enough, like K.T., to recogniz e the limitations in books whose enchantment I'd outgrown. I just stopped reading them and went on to my next crush. I've come to accept myself as a hopelessly plebeian reader. It's humbling, but look at all the good company I have! (Dorothy Cannell, anyone?)
Sally Derby
Received on Tue 09 Aug 2011 04:20:09 PM CDT
