Books #1, 2, & 3
I started This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-bye to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira, had settled down to a delicious quiet in town, where the mail comes three times a day, and the water supply does not depend on a tank on the roof. And then -- the madness seized me. When I look back over the months I spent at Sunnyside, I wonder that I survived at all. As it is, I show the wear and tear of my harrowing experiences. I have turned very gray -- Liddy reminded me of it, only yesterday, by saying that a little bluing in the rinse-water would make my hair silvery, instead of a yellowish white. I hate to be reminded of unpleasant things and I snapped her off. No, I said sharply, I'm not going to use bluing at my time of life, or starch, either. on my Kindle shortly after the first of the year. I finally finished it last week. It isn't long, only 200ish pages, I just wasn't reading much. I liked it though.
After I finished that, I hunted down all 14 Oz books on my Kindle. I have them in omnibus form, but the book is so big and the font is super tiny. It's like reading a phone book from the 80s. I finished Follow the yellow brick road! Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. But the Wicked Witch of the West has her own plans for the new arrival - will Dorothy ever see Kansas again? in a couple days. I have this in book format too and I read it several years ago, but I think that version is different from the one on my Kindle. That or I've forgotten more than I thought I had. It was fun to read again and recognize some of the characters from the newer adaptations/interpretations that I've been reading/watching lately.
I'm now reading First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. How they thwart the wicked plans of the evil witch Mombi and overcome the rebellion of General Jinjur and her army of young women is a tale as exciting and endearing today as it was when first published over eighty years ago. It's strangely making me nostalgic for Return to Oz, the 80s movie that was terrible even when it was new. I think I had more nightmares from that than I did The Wizard of Oz and I was much older when I saw it. But I'm getting now where a lot of the weird things came from, it wasn't because it was the 80s, it was in the book.
After I finished that, I hunted down all 14 Oz books on my Kindle. I have them in omnibus form, but the book is so big and the font is super tiny. It's like reading a phone book from the 80s. I finished Follow the yellow brick road! Dorothy thinks she's lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald City of Oz. On the way she meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. But the Wicked Witch of the West has her own plans for the new arrival - will Dorothy ever see Kansas again? in a couple days. I have this in book format too and I read it several years ago, but I think that version is different from the one on my Kindle. That or I've forgotten more than I thought I had. It was fun to read again and recognize some of the characters from the newer adaptations/interpretations that I've been reading/watching lately.
I'm now reading First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump. How they thwart the wicked plans of the evil witch Mombi and overcome the rebellion of General Jinjur and her army of young women is a tale as exciting and endearing today as it was when first published over eighty years ago. It's strangely making me nostalgic for Return to Oz, the 80s movie that was terrible even when it was new. I think I had more nightmares from that than I did The Wizard of Oz and I was much older when I saw it. But I'm getting now where a lot of the weird things came from, it wasn't because it was the 80s, it was in the book.