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Crossposting here from Ye Olde LJ comes Elsie Dinsmore! I am so sorry for the spam, those of you who have me friended. But for those who slumber peacefully... it's time to read Elsie Dinsmore!
( WAKE UP! WAKE UP! )
( WAKE UP! WAKE UP! )
Jan. 18th, 2012
....I say, with a discreet cough and breakfast on a tray. You are too stunned by the lack of dynamic entrance to give me any backchat, and I can begin to recap while you settle into your toast. ( Read more... )
So Elsie goes on suffering. This is like it has been: Elsie bumps around the woe wheel and we're dragged along. But something is changing, and on following it, it looks less like a flaw in the writing and more like a fault line in the book's morality.
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Good morning! It's time to check the polls! Who else is witness to the psychological torture of a small child, and what are they making of it? Let's start with Vision Forums... I hear them mentioned a lot about evangelical homeschooling references, so they must be like A Beka, pretty big... ooh, they tell you who should be reading Elsie Dinsmore!
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Good morning! We're ticking along through Elsie Dinsmore, and yet we're moving kind of slowly. This isn't really a problem for me, because I know where we're headed and how sudden the drops are going to be, but at the same time, I want to get to the fun stuff already (the carriage ride! The carriage ride!) And you get the idea how it's running. ( Read more... )
Good morning! Wake up, wake up! It's time to watch Arthur Dinsmore start on that Snidely moustache! And then we get to go on a carriage ride! Are you ready? I'm not ready! Let me put on "Hollaback Girl" in the background so I can have an appropriate soundtrack going on...
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Good morning! I know you missed having me show up and drag you out of bed and poke you into the kitchen for Elsie Dinsmore! Choice of drink is ginger tea, chamomile tea, or peppermint tea depending on which works for you as a nausea remedy. Backup drink is Pepto-Bismol. Food is a liability. Emergency escapes include the door, the window, and the back button. From here on out, all depends on your personal tolerance. But it might get that ugly. ( Read more... )
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP! IT'S TIME TO READ ELSIE DINSMORE AND THERE ARE COOKIES!"
"Hnhl? Hn! Is there a fire?"
"No, just cookies and Elsie Dinsmore." I wait, nonplussed, through the quavering scream. If I can take this so can you!( Read more... )
"Hnhl? Hn! Is there a fire?"
"No, just cookies and Elsie Dinsmore." I wait, nonplussed, through the quavering scream. If I can take this so can you!( Read more... )
Lucy Returns, But Cannot Save Us.
Jan. 18th, 2012 08:21 pmYou scream and drop a plate.
"Sorry!" I say.
"What-"
"Well, I didn't want to always be waking you up, so I thought I'd catch you at dinner instead... are those green beans?"
( It's dinnertime! It's time to read Elsie Dinsmore! )
"Sorry!" I say.
"What-"
"Well, I didn't want to always be waking you up, so I thought I'd catch you at dinner instead... are those green beans?"
( It's dinnertime! It's time to read Elsie Dinsmore! )
Elsie Dinsmore and the Unending Writing
Jan. 18th, 2012 08:33 pmThere is silence and the smell of blueberry muffins.
More silence.
More silence.
Finally, you roll over.
"Good morning! It's time to read the next Elsie book!"
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More silence.
More silence.
Finally, you roll over.
"Good morning! It's time to read the next Elsie book!"
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WAKE UP! IT'S TIME TO FINISH BOOK TWO!
Jan. 18th, 2012 08:54 pmWhy? Because otherwise we'd have to keep reading it!
Good morning! We're starting off with Travilla and Daddy D. talking.
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**Curious to see if Finley changed her views, in which case I wanted to be fair, I skipped to the 24th book and I'll admit skimmed it, looking for changes of her opinions or refinement of her stances or other mellowing. I found: father with daughter putting off marriage so she could stay his little girl, lover feeling entitled to marry her, lone black servant character needing to be translated to other white characters, everyone concealing from a sick woman the fact that she was dying, about a hundred pages of frickin' wedding planning, and a last page where we're told a prisoner with a grudge against one of the female leads suddenly escaped from prison, which I can only deduce is slang for "a more interesting book you are not reading," and she now needs a bodyguard and they must travel with friends.
Short answer: No.
Good morning! We're starting off with Travilla and Daddy D. talking.
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**Curious to see if Finley changed her views, in which case I wanted to be fair, I skipped to the 24th book and I'll admit skimmed it, looking for changes of her opinions or refinement of her stances or other mellowing. I found: father with daughter putting off marriage so she could stay his little girl, lover feeling entitled to marry her, lone black servant character needing to be translated to other white characters, everyone concealing from a sick woman the fact that she was dying, about a hundred pages of frickin' wedding planning, and a last page where we're told a prisoner with a grudge against one of the female leads suddenly escaped from prison, which I can only deduce is slang for "a more interesting book you are not reading," and she now needs a bodyguard and they must travel with friends.
Short answer: No.