[bksvol-discuss] Re: remark on Cindy's commentRE: OT: reading as an excapewas Cherry Ames
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:52:32 -0700 (PDT)
There is an author whose stories are about the working class in England in that
period of time. She's popular. I started to profread one f her books a couple
of years. One problem for m is the dialect, and the other, the grimness of the
stories. I don't like most Dickens' novels for th latter reason.. smile) I
can't remember who the quthor was, but someone here might. I know some of her
books are in the collection.
Cindy
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--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Kim Friedman <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] remark on Cindy's commentRE: OT: reading as an
excapewas Cherry Ames
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 4:24 AM
HI,
Cindy, I share your love for Regency literature. That being said, however, I
don't mind if Regency literature is concerned with other classes other than the
nobility. I personally think it's high time all classes in society were
represented. That's one thing that made me uncomfortable with SCA (Society for
Creative Anachronism). The assumption was that everyone were lords and ladies,
and I felt that to be unrealistic. I figured there was a need for folk who were
amused by the carryings-on of the nobility. All that thrashing and bashing
about
with swords, etc. I also remember that under the skin it doesn't matter
what family you were born to because we all live, laugh, cry, bleed, die,
etc. The peasants remind the nobility that they're not all that they're cracked
up to be, a very salutary reality check, I think. Regards,
Kim.
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Cindy
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:08 PM
To:
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: reading as
an excapewas Cherry Ames
I don't rmember who said or wrote "The World is Too Much
With Us," but it's true. IThat's why I'm "into" regency romances; I love
"being in" a time and place that is so very different, and the troubles
and problems are minor. Sometimes ther'es a little tension--murder or
suspicion or misunderstadnings (I hate misundersandings0: then I go to
the
back and see how it's resolved and go back to enjoy the story and
characters an relationships. I only like the stories involving the
nobility--not the lower classes (unless one of them becomes involved
happpily with a noble..
Cindy
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On Tue, 8/18/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
From:
gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re:
Cherry Ames books
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday,
August 18, 2009, 5:08 AM
It is and like others when you have family
members chronically ill as our family does,
for me it helps me
cope.
I remember once when I was in Topeka Kansas,
and I decided I
wanted to read Black Beauty, the lady asked me how old I was, and I
told
her,
and she said,
"don't you think you are a little old to be
reading Black Beauty?"
plus for me, I know I'm extremely picky,
I
don't need all the violence and um lets say language to enjoy a
story,
and yes I am a tame reader, but for me, the books I read have
excitement,
I guess some would say I'm living in the past, and I
don't mean to be exactly, but I do too,
There used to be so many neat
old shows on that were just good to me, and the same with books,
I
wish bookshare had you know the guy who created the Walton's Earl
Hamner
book,
after watching the Walton's I'd love to read his life
story.
going back is another way of escape just for a bit from
a world going to fast, having to much troubles and on and
on.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
<bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:
Monday, August 17, 2009 10:39 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Cherry
Ames books
> I think you hit the nail on the head, Judy.
For me it is a form of escape. I have faced life-and-death
decisions for so many years in caring for critically ill people
that it is nice to see nursing in its simpler, more noble form. I
could go on and on about medicine now versus then, but the most
important thing to me is just sharing the joy of reading with
another generation. Same as my love for Anne of Green Gables and
other childhood favorites. I'm just glad that I have a daughter
who loves books and am thrilled that she will soon have the
ability to read more books and choose more books on her own. There
is a desperate need to provide literacy opportunities of wide
ranges for children with more significant disabilities. Too often
the only opportunities they are given are audiotapes, and while
that is wonderful, and can give them exposure to literature, there
is something beautiful about seeing the printed word come
alive.
>
> Valerie
>
> Check out my kids
at:
>
> http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples
<new>
> http://www.caringbridge.org/ms/nicholemaples
>
http://www.caringbridge.org/ms/cindymaples
>
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jorgemaples
>
> On 08 17, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Judy s. wrote:
>
>>
I think I'm part of that same "kids who never grew up club," Gwen.
smile. Several of the scanners and proofreaders here, including
me, like to work on children's and young adult books that we
either enjoyed ourselves when young, or wish we'd been able to
read. It certainly is a nice break from those grown up woes,
isn't it?
>>
>> Judy s.
>>
>> gwen
tweedy wrote:
>>> I love to read books I never took the time
or thought they were to big when I was little,
>>> I
am still a kid even though I am 56 years old.
>>> oh well,
some of us never grow up,
>>> or need an escape from
so much grown up whoas!
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