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[phosfate]

More or less awake now. I feel better.

Went to used bookstore at lunch, found (swear to God) an Enid Blyton three-decker (how on earth did it get here?) and Columbo Goes to College in Japanese. Totally kick-ass jacket painting. I don't read Japanese, so if anybody out there wants the actual book part to read, drop me a line.

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[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

Enid Blyton!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Which ones????????????????? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::pulls out The Stand-sized paperback::

It says here: Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm, Six Cousins Again, and More Adventures on Willow Farm. No Famous Five, alas.

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm sure I have those. Not sure if I've read them though... I know what you mean, 5 appeal... but I'm going to try to find those, & read them anyways...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I've never read her at all. She's not very big in the U.S. - our local library system has one copy of one book in an obscure branch. I mainly know her for being parodied on The Comic Strip Presents ("...and lashings of ginger beer!") and in Bert Fegg's Book of Knowledge. verdandi claims her as a literary antecedant of J.K. Rowling, but she also likes them big-ass German novels*, so we'll see.

*e.g., Gunter Grass's 1500-page allegory concerning the societal causes of the Great War, Mein Umlaut Is Decadent. It was banned by the Postwar government immediately after publication, on the grounds that its sheer weight threatened to send the West German automobile industry into - quite literally - a tailspin. Those poor little Beetles couldn't get up to speed on the autobahn if there was a copy in the trunk.

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

Hee hee... it's that gothic type... the ink they use for it is damn heavy...

I love Enid. She's about a thousand times more evolved than people give her credit for; but she's not like an American author, I'm not surprised she didn't get popular over there...

I love Susan Coolidge Katy books, you can't get more American than those!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I don't think she's been published much over here, to tell the truth. The book I got is from the UK. The Noddy books have been available here the last couple years, because of the cartoon.

Are the Susan Coolidge books the series that's What Katy Did, What Katy Did at School, etc.? I've never read any.

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes!! They are so good! And so damn hard to get the last two titles in the UK, I just got my last one in Feb...

Katy Did at School is the best one... It has Rose Red, my favourite character, and a teacher whose fiancee was eaten by a cannibal while on missionary work... sort of...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Ooo! I'll have to keep an eye out.

If you like those, you might like Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster.

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

I saw that book in a second hand shop at the weekend!! I'm going to buy it tomorrow, I didn't know it was an American story... I just thought it was a romanticky book...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

It's romanticky, but not sticky. Mostly it's a school story.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there's a sequel called Dear Enemy.

[pollyannadesade.livejournal.com]

School stories are my favourites. And not just because I have a dirty mind... I've become addicted to an early 1990s series called Freshman Dorm by Linda Cooney, too...