[bksvol-discuss] Re: curious - and Cherry Ames
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:10:24 -0700 (PDT)
I'm sure it was in the 40's that I read them --by the 50's I was in high school
in college. And they were hard bounds. We didn't have paperbacks in those
days--just comic books and movie magazines. grin I don't think paperbacks were
published until after the war. Paper was scarce. You can find some hardbound
books published then in a funny paper, thinner, I think.and apologized for.
That's why some of those are hard to scan. I'm sure George and maybe Bud and
some of you others who are close to my age remember paper drives. I think the
books that were published in those days were used recycled paper.
Cindy
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--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: curious - and Cherry Ames
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 7:27 AM
Yes, I suppose I was stereotyping. After I left high school and never saw
another one of those nurse books I think the kind of book that replaced them in
my mind as airhead books were Harlequin romances and I suppose that was a bit
of unfair stereotyping too, not to mention hypocritical because I read a few
Harlequinns myself. I cringe at the prospect of revealing my age, but if the
Cherry Ames books ended in the mid 1960's then those nurse books I saw in high
school might have been the tail end of them. I graduated from high school in
1972. I don't think they were from the school library though. The library was
my favorite hangout in the school, so I learned pretty much how it operated.
The librarian ordered only hardcover books for the library and if she
accidentally got a paperback she sent it for rebinding in hardcover before it
entered the library. The nurse books I saw were mass market paperbacks and I do
not know what their source was. If they
were part of any series I wouldn't have known what it was. I just disdainfully
thought of them as nurse books.
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[bksvol-discuss] Re: curious - and Cherry Ames
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Good Heavens, Roger, you were stereotyping back in high school!
grin. (yes, I'm teasing you again, and I really am teasing, so
please don't take any offense!)
If I recall your age correctly, you're a bit younger than me?
The Cherry Ames books were probably considered "too outdated" for
your high school's collection, so I doubt that any of your female
classmates were toting them around. It might have been some
other series? The Cherry Ames books are from right after WWII,
with the series ending around the mid '60s, as I recall. My high
school and public library didn't have a one.
Cherry Ames books, btw, aren't about a standard cookie-cutter
second-class to all doctors "nurse," as nurses are often
portrayed in soaps and the like. She's portrayed as an
intelligent resourceful single woman who has a satisfying career
and has a nimble mind that she devotes to nursing and to solving
mysteries on the side.
Judy s.
Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Those of you who are fans of nurse books please don't take offense at
> this. I am only talking about a vague impression I had in the past that
> was not based on much in the way of facts. When I was in high school I
> did notice that a number of people were reading nurse books. I had no
> reason to be interested in those books myself, but I noticed that
> virtually every person who I saw carrying them around were those who I
> would have classified as the airhead caucus of the female student body,
> so I came to think of nurse books as airhead books. After leaving high
> school I never gave that impression a thought again and, indeed, I never
> gave nurse books a thought again because I don't think I ever saw one
> again. That is, I never gave them a thought again until the subject came
> up here. Now I wonder if the nurse books you folks are talking about are
> the same ones I saw when I was in high school.
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