Comments | iamsab: you were eating an apple and reading a book when I first saw you

iamsab

you were eating an apple and reading a book when I first saw you

Aug 26, 2007 04:29

Or: Betsy Warrington Ray Willard and Maud Palmer Hart Lovelace, two girls, the same, born 1n 1892 in Deep Valley/Mankato, MN.

Wiki: Maud Hart Lovelace
Wiki: Betsy-Tacy Books

( the merry widow waltz )

eating hard candy alone, books, thinking

Comments 5

cincodemaygirl August 25 2007, 13:13:53 UTC

I read this series as a child and adored it. Perhaps it's time for a revisit...

iamsab August 26 2007, 00:17:25 UTC

SRSLY, read 'em all. They hold up remarkably well (especially the high school era and later volumes), once you get past the cutesy period dialogue and proponderance of exclamation points. I wanna read your goodreads reviews, Miss Cinco.

sandyurbahns August 25 2007, 21:55:09 UTC

I can't believe young people today really are interested in the Betsy, Tacy and Tib books that I LOVED!!! I read them first about 40 years ago and really fell in love, I hunted forever for one of the final books that had been out of print for years finally finding it only a few years ago. I fell in love all over again. It's a great series about young girlhood in the early 1900's. Hope you enjoy the series.

iamsab August 26 2007, 00:15:58 UTC

I got a good chuckle out of this comment -- I'm in my 30s and first read this series at least 25 years ago! I loved them in my youth and still love them now; I was prompted to reread the series just this week in anticipation of writing this LJ post about them.

So glad to meet other people who love Betsy-Tacy -- how did you find my LJ to begin with? Also, hi!

lilac_way September 9 2007, 06:34:55 UTC

There's a whole list of us that talk about Betsy non-stop. There's a society, and another BT Convention coming up in '08, I believe. If you want to join the BT listserv:

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