I love What Katy Did and I shudder (I'm not a fan) at the JW rewrite. And I didn't know about the final Monica Edwards, so I will definitely not fall upon it with innocent glee in a secondhand bookshop, which is a relief.
I loved Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I loved boarding school tales and lost myself in pony stories from a lost time. I don't want them rewritten starring children who gape mindlessly at the internet and who dream of being on the blooming X Factor. And I don't always want realism in my stories. For me, Pooh still pootles around the woods, Jill is somewhere making sandwiches cut so thinly you could read Horse and Hound through them, and Jinny is galloping the moors with Shantih and Epona, the horse god.
(I'm aware this all sounds alarmingly Daily Mail, but I have four modern-day children who have quite enough reality, thank you.)
I'm glad to have saved someone from reading A Wind Is Blowing but if you see it going cheap you should still snap it up because someone will pay you good money for it.
*Of course* Jill and Jinny are still out there with the rest of our heroines.
I couldn't agree more. Books are of a time and that's when they are at their best, with social history and their endings intact for the young mind to carry forward into adulthood. Sequels seldom work.
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I loved Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I loved boarding school tales and lost myself in pony stories from a lost time. I don't want them rewritten starring children who gape mindlessly at the internet and who dream of being on the blooming X Factor. And I don't always want realism in my stories. For me, Pooh still pootles around the woods, Jill is somewhere making sandwiches cut so thinly you could read Horse and Hound through them, and Jinny is galloping the moors with Shantih and Epona, the horse god.
(I'm aware this all sounds alarmingly Daily Mail, but I have four modern-day children who have quite enough reality, thank you.)
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I'm glad to have saved someone from reading A Wind Is Blowing but if you see it going cheap you should still snap it up because someone will pay you good money for it.
*Of course* Jill and Jinny are still out there with the rest of our heroines.
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