Tor posts: These Old Shades and Freddy the Pilot

[mariness]

I forgot to note this on Tuesday, but my post about These Old Shades popped up on Tuesday, and readers are already happily fighting about cross dressing and 18th century attitudes about inherent aristocratic behaviors. Come join in the fun, especially since the next Heyer post is the less fun HelenPopping up today is the considerably less

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Enid Blyton

[ellis_schubert]

Hi Mari- Handy Randy here. I decided to obey your dire warnings about not reading Enid Blyton books, but I wanted to satisfy my curiousity about how many books would be in a public library by an author that supposedly wrote 600. Answer? Exactly two, one a battered old book from the fifties, and one a relatively recent trade paperback. They were both in the same series, so I suppose the library could have the other five books in the series and that they were just checked out. I was interested to note that Blyton includes a little introductory note to her readers reminescent of the Oz books. But so far I am heeding your warning- I looked but I did not read!! All the best- Handy Randy

Re: Enid Blyton

[mariness]

Enid Blyton really did write about 600 odd books. (Wikipedia says 800. Whatever the number, it was a lot.) But most were not published in the United States, and those that were generally were not purchased by libraries. My own library, which had almost all of the Freddy the Pig books, for instance, only has three Blytons, all from the Famous Five series, and it looks as if these are all from the most recent editions, which had the racist material and some other problems removed