I BE SPAMMY TODAY, YES?
1. It's 5am, OMG. I told myself I was going to bed early. EARLY, dammit. (By which I usually mean 2am, but whatever.)
2. The meds are working, sort of. I can confirm this because, when I take them, I am considerably healed. I don't cough as much or as spectacularly - phlegm is kept to a bare minimum - and because three (count 'em, three) of my meds ( Read more... )
2. The meds are working, sort of. I can confirm this because, when I take them, I am considerably healed. I don't cough as much or as spectacularly - phlegm is kept to a bare minimum - and because three (count 'em, three) of my meds ( Read more... )
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I LOVE this series - it's such fun to revisit all these people (they're like my friends, lol!) when I feel nostalgic for my childhood. I have to admit being made of fail though: haven't read the Companion yet!
YOU DON'T HAVE BRIDE?! It's a ridiculously difficult book to get though: out of print except by the outfit currently re-releasing CS (Girls Gone By Publishers). I bought mine from there. There used to be transcripts available on the net, but unfortunately I don't have Bride. :(
My favourite character is Joey - even though she got rather insufferable towards the end with her million and one children. Oh, and Miss Wilson. SHE was my girl crush in the series. ;)
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I was never as into the CS as I was Malory Towers and St. Clare's - I got started later, and of course there's sooooo many more books and then even between them all, the libraries couldn't supply me with a full set. I was sent the transcript of SOME book ages ago - I wonder if I still have it! I can't even recall which it was.
I was never a big fan of Joey *hides* my teacher-crush, if any, would have been Biddy O'Ryan. I LOVED her as a schoolgirl and was so sad there was so little about her. One I didn't like was Mary-Lou...half because of the name! And she was just ugh :P My favourite books are all mostly from the teens, though. Lintons, Exile, At War, the Highland Twins, Lavender Laughs :)
I found it! The Chalet School at the Oberland :D
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Joey Goes to the Oberland is a fun one! I wish I could pass you Bride to read somehow - it's one of my favourites. Think if I mailed it to you, you'd be able to read it and then mail it back? ;)
I LOVED BIDDY TOO! I loved watching her grow from that little gypsy kid they rescued to the school's math teacher and then getting married and everything. ♥ I think the problem with Jo and Mary-Lou is that they got too haughty and perfect for people to stomach. It gets quite tiring after a while if everything you do is just brilliant!!
OF COURSE, I ALSO ADORE MALLORY TOWERS AND ST CLARE'S, ZOMG. So formulaic but so fabulous. I also loved the Naughtiest Girl series. ♥
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I'm totally game to help you out with Bride! Actually, my sister is going back to Brisbane tomorrow; I'll see if she can help me post it to you from there? That'd be cheaper and quicker, for certain. PM me your address? I'm not sure if you'll find Bride, actually. It was one of the rarest, and even the GGBP run is already sold out, I think. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAD TWO SAMS AND REDHEADS AND SOLD THOSE ONES, OMG. THEY MUST HAVE BEEN WORTH A CRAZY AMOUNT OF MONEY, BECAUSE THEY'RE SO RARE. Wow.
Vi Lucy is great - always a favourite. And you SO need to get in on the CS forums and get snarking about them. It's hilarious. There was a period of time in 2005 when I frequented the CBB boards (password - joey, bettany), and the discussions are hilarious. It's so much fun to poke fun at this series we love and its cliches and what we fondly call EBD-isms: exactly ( ... )
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