dckuulv, you are ralely cazry!
~~The Crazy Pullets of BYC!~~
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my hower is up, I got to go.
BYE!!
LYALS (Love You All Like Siblings)
LYALS (Love You All Like Siblings)
Got to go put the cikhcnis aawy. Gdooybe!
OMGOSH, I'M A TRUE BYC ADDICT!!!!!
Somebody insulted The Story Girl!!
Look!!
"L. M. Montgomery, author of the much-loved Anne of Green Gables books, called The Story Girl "my favorite among my books", possibly because she saw the title character as a kind of romanticized version of herself. As the rest of us must lack that pleasurable sense of self-flattery, however, I'm afraid the book falls flat. In it, the adventures of a group of eight Canadian children ages 11-14 (narrated by one of the boys looking back from adulthood), are interspersed with the stories told to them by the eldest of their number, the Story Girl herself. We are told (again and again) that the Story Girl, though not beautiful, is nonetheless the sort of charismatic personality that draws everyone to her. "If voices had colour, hers would have been like a rainbow. It made words live. Whatever she said became a breathing reality, not a mere verbal statement or utterance." There's rather a lot of this sort of thing, every time the Story Girl does something, which is of course often, since the book is named after her. Set in the late 1800's, the children are quite a bit (almost unbelievably) more unworldly than tweens and early teens of our own era, and I had to constantly revise my expectations of their knowledge and conduct downwards (quite a bit downwards, in fact). Which I think, even more than the tiresome hyperbole about the Story Girl's attractiveness, is what rings false in this book. It reads like a book written by the childless auntie who just adores the little darlings! and has no real concept of what real children are like. Throughout it refers to their feelings and exploits with a winking sort of smarminess that is just a few shades too twee to be borne.
"And I, even in these late years of irreverence for the dreams of youth, am not in the least ashamed to confess that when I knelt down to say my boyish prayer, I thought of our little furry comrade in his extremity, and prayed as reverently as I knew how for his healing."
This sort of "talking down" to children makes me cringe, and I can't but imagine how much more embarrassing it would be to a child who was reading it. Not a keeper. "
This is TERRIBLE!!
How could they SAY that??
"L. M. Montgomery, author of the much-loved Anne of Green Gables books, called The Story Girl "my favorite among my books", possibly because she saw the title character as a kind of romanticized version of herself. As the rest of us must lack that pleasurable sense of self-flattery, however, I'm afraid the book falls flat. In it, the adventures of a group of eight Canadian children ages 11-14 (narrated by one of the boys looking back from adulthood), are interspersed with the stories told to them by the eldest of their number, the Story Girl herself. We are told (again and again) that the Story Girl, though not beautiful, is nonetheless the sort of charismatic personality that draws everyone to her. "If voices had colour, hers would have been like a rainbow. It made words live. Whatever she said became a breathing reality, not a mere verbal statement or utterance." There's rather a lot of this sort of thing, every time the Story Girl does something, which is of course often, since the book is named after her. Set in the late 1800's, the children are quite a bit (almost unbelievably) more unworldly than tweens and early teens of our own era, and I had to constantly revise my expectations of their knowledge and conduct downwards (quite a bit downwards, in fact). Which I think, even more than the tiresome hyperbole about the Story Girl's attractiveness, is what rings false in this book. It reads like a book written by the childless auntie who just adores the little darlings! and has no real concept of what real children are like. Throughout it refers to their feelings and exploits with a winking sort of smarminess that is just a few shades too twee to be borne.
"And I, even in these late years of irreverence for the dreams of youth, am not in the least ashamed to confess that when I knelt down to say my boyish prayer, I thought of our little furry comrade in his extremity, and prayed as reverently as I knew how for his healing."
This sort of "talking down" to children makes me cringe, and I can't but imagine how much more embarrassing it would be to a child who was reading it. Not a keeper. "
This is TERRIBLE!!
That makes me made. I didn't read the Story Girl, but loved the whole AOGG series.
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