[JenB]

Oh, yuck, my mother avoided that sort of material like the plague. She knew there was no better way to get us do disbehave.... it's like when she read us "Little House on the Praire". Pretty good books but in general those kids were too well behaved. It got old fast.

Oh, and once I had to read an "Elsie Dinsmore" book. I don't remember the author, but did you ever run across those gems? UGH - like Pollyanna, only worse. No wonder I turned to SF and fantasy.... no wonder I wanted to be Eowyn.

[RosieCotton]

Rod and Staff books made the Little House kids seem like hellions. So you can guess what they were like.

Had stuff like kids eating a few grains of wheat off the stalk while walking past the wheat field to run errands. Then later they'd realize that that was "stealing", confess to Father, who would "sadly" tell them that he was disappointed, but that God would forgive them if they repented and apologized to the farmer.

Gak!

I'm going to bed. Been a longgggg day.