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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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Didn't you ever have to read the first book for school or something?
And anyway, everyone but Anne figures out what's going to happen by the end of the first book, she just needs another five volumes to get around to it.
It's a part of history that was a blank for me - and I really felt like that made it more real.
I haven't read any of them recently. All the Anne books are at home for... um, I'm not sure who. Future grandchildren, possibly, since I don't see the bothers reading them. Same for the Lousia May Alcott collection.
Funny, that is exactly my daughter's take. She said she always loved the dialogue, and when the format changed to Anne's letters, it just twern't the same.
Well...but it takes her about a million years (well...words, anyway) to actually come to it.
You can still read most of 'em.
Takes her forever to actually realize he's pretty OK.
IT's just so... dull isn't the word. Futile. They thought it was "The Great War". And you know that in half a generation there'll be a worse one. And then the Depression... perhaps I've just never read any stories of courage and valor from that period. It's all "The Grapes of Wrath" and other novels that put me to sleep in 10th grade.
Grrr. Another blue sock/black sock day.
That is very good news for me ;) Thank you.
How many other boyfriends was she dithering about? There was at least one serious one, right?
Hmmm, there it is.
The "tall, dark and handsome" guy, yeah. With the snobby family.
And she had two other proposals, too, but they were just kinda stupid.
Considering she was proposed to about five times before accepting, it makes me feel a bit useless. ;-)
No, she was just stupid. I don't think it will take you that long to recognize your True Love.
What I always loved about the books was the bit where they were girls and writing stories, and Diana couldn't figure out what to do with her characters so she killed them all off.
Nope. Never on the list.
Bah...
Characters are nothin' but trouble.
Hehe... reminds me of Wuthering Heights, I never could figure out why it took Catherine so long to "see" Heathcliff. Linton?(she's kidding, right?)
Yeah...the big sissy.
Sometimes book gals can be maddeningly dense.
For me, anything post-Civil War was not learned in publik skul.
One year, you'd have Virginia history. So you'd start with Jamestown and get thru the Civil War by mid-to-late May.
The next year, you'd have American History. So you'd start wtih Jamestown and get thru the Civil War by mid-to-late May.
Unfortunately, most of my teachers taught in the system before desegregation (the year I started first grade). It's just the way things were "done."
When I took American History in college, we started in Massachusetts. I kept thinking "what's up with this?"
eh...unfortunately, in today's world, "book gals" aren't the only ones... ;}
Heh...
I learned most history by picking a random nonfiction book from our collection. When I got to high school, we did it a little more systematically - went to the library and got random books on the period to be studied this month. I do have a few weak spots - the Roaring 20s, for instance, and anything after 1965 when the books I read had been written - but I still got such a decent education, I never had to study for a single college history class. And I took 4.
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