I think I want to go borrow them from the library now. I love her columns quite a lot, especially when I can imagine her rolling her eyes at the writer, in a very polite way, of course.
But, yes, I have read etiquette books to learn how to deal with different social situations. They're very helpful!
She does! The titles of the ones I remember are... Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour and Miss Manners Guide to Raising Perfect Children.
Oh! You and canadiandevil have just about put the cherry on the awesome sundae that my day has been (I also found out today that I was accepted to my first choice grad school in Milwaukee, which I've been worried about, because I failed several semesters of undergrad thanks to all those reasons many of us aspies have trouble with school).
I think I'm *definitely* going to visit my old university library to borrow some of those books, before my id card expires.
On a related note, lately, I've been into really old series books and the one I've read in the Patty Fairfield series (1903-1918) by Carolyn Wells (who was a satirist before she wrote young people's novels) has a very similar "perfectly polite snark" about Patty's and other characters' faux pas. It's been fun to read about social customs that are a century old in that kind of tone. There was one character, for example, who wore a very nice white dress to a yachting party, and the narrator was absolutely scathing in the description, but without actually saying anything particularly mean or
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I think I want to go borrow them from the library now. I love her columns quite a lot, especially when I can imagine her rolling her eyes at the writer, in a very polite way, of course.
But, yes, I have read etiquette books to learn how to deal with different social situations. They're very helpful!
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I think I'm *definitely* going to visit my old university library to borrow some of those books, before my id card expires.
On a related note, lately, I've been into really old series books and the one I've read in the Patty Fairfield series (1903-1918) by Carolyn Wells (who was a satirist before she wrote young people's novels) has a very similar "perfectly polite snark" about Patty's and other characters' faux pas. It's been fun to read about social customs that are a century old in that kind of tone. There was one character, for example, who wore a very nice white dress to a yachting party, and the narrator was absolutely scathing in the description, but without actually saying anything particularly mean or ( ... )
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