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Library, Volume 2

Jun 13, 2006 11:23

Community Service

Lisa Cuddy wins the Rockaway Library Reading Contest four summers running-a major achievement in an immigrant community that considers education a cross between a contact sport and a winning lottery ticket. The year she turns eleven, the older kids complain; the librarians start counting the number of pages read rather than the ( Read more... )

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dontkickmycane June 13 2006, 17:25:18 UTC

I can't decide which one I like best. I just can't decide. You've shown how, fundamentally, people don't really change over time. Their circumstances might, but people don't, and I can totally see all three of them acting in these ways.

dedletrbox June 18 2006, 20:16:57 UTC

Thanks. I'm glad you liked them (all). And I think you're right: the characters on the show are so distinctly *themselves* that their attitudes are too fundamental to be the product of any set of circumstances.

morningafter2 June 13 2006, 18:34:37 UTC

The Foreman one is my favorite, though I can't for the life of me figure out why. (Ironically, I read it first, thinking it would be the one I liked the least since I don't like Foreman.)

And with the House one, that's exactly why I love libraries as much as I do, so that was great for me. (Except I've always been a complete bookworm. Hated playtime. The last time we moved, I got my library card a week after we settled in, and a month before my parents got theirs. XP)

They're all abolutely excellent; you really captured the characters perfectly.

dedletrbox June 18 2006, 20:23:17 UTC

omg! Steve McQueen icon--hooray!
ahem. yes, what I meant to say was: thanks for the comment. I haven't got a firm grasp of Foreman yet (he stars in too many unfinished sideplots), but it's canon that House is both brilliant and lazy. So I liked the idea that it took him forever to actually get around to the public library. Also, the sisyphean task of remembering everything you read seems something he would consider entirely reasonable.

darkl June 13 2006, 20:32:33 UTC

I love them all--you have the best titles!--but I think the first one is my favorite. I mean, yeah, yeah, Cuddy likes being one of the 3 American Deans of Medicine, but sometimes she's gotta regret having taken herself out of the running in terms of being a doctor, right? 'Cause you don't go to med school to be an administrator, but somebody's got to do it.

dedletrbox June 18 2006, 20:24:17 UTC

Excellent...I thought the Cuddy one might err on the side of being *too* subtle for 100 words, but that's totally what I was going for. Cuddy = Unsung hero of PPTH!

thirteenthchime June 23 2006, 04:37:31 UTC

I don't normally read drabbles, but a friend linked these and thus, I am here. I feel so odd gushing about something that's only 100 words wrong, feel slightly ridiculous for telling you how amazingly well you wrote these characters, but to hell with it. These were wonderful. Thank you.

dedletrbox June 24 2006, 02:12:14 UTC

I'm glad you liked them, and glad you dropped by--come back soon. Don't know when this community posts new challenges, but drabbles are addictive, especially during summer re-run season.

BTW, where did you find the link? (Anyone who links to House drabbles is about to be friended! Obviously, I have very discriminating tastes;)

thirteenthchime June 25 2006, 15:58:37 UTC

Hehe, yes, yes they are. My friend boobookittyass sent me the link on AIM. She's a big House fan and has just gotten into icon-making. She's produced some really excellent icons already, so she'll be fun to have on your flist ;)

anonymous July 11 2006, 03:11:39 UTC

These are terrific. You have a real gift for perfect ending lines, particularly in the Cuddy and Foreman drabbles.

dedletrbox July 13 2006, 14:59:35 UTC

Thanks! I kind of ran out of space for House, but of the ones written for this challenge, the Cuddy drabble's final line is my favorite, too.