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sammywol

Hello huge living room!

Jan 15, 2006 22:22

I have been procrastinating and procrastinating about taking dow the Xmas tree. it has been a few days since I switched the lights on last but tonight I finally got out the loppers and made the awful mess that is bagging the thing up for my parents' woodchipper to digest. On the plus side though WOW! our living room is HUGE! We can get at the ( Read more... )

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purpletigron January 15 2006, 23:27:56 UTC

I read it so long ago that I can't remember (and, no, I don't own it).

Blyton in good condition goes for quite significant money secondhand, I'm told :-S

fjm January 16 2006, 14:36:03 UTC

Before you dismiss Blyton, try The Naughtiest Girl sequence: Blyton goes to a Progressive Boarding School.

sammywol January 17 2006, 04:52:06 UTC

Thanks for the recommendation. And they actually have one of those at our local Waterstones! I'm off!

doc_mystery January 18 2006, 17:52:04 UTC

What Blyton books are worth reading these days? I remember reading a few of her "Famous Five" books here in Canada, but none of the details of the 2-3 books I read seem to stick in my memory.

::B::

P.S. We finally pulled down our tree only on Sunday, too.

sammywol January 19 2006, 10:17:33 UTC

IMHO not many are worth reading and I am only avoiding the sweeping generalisation because I have not read all Blyton and do not intend to either. I have had a couple of recommendations for books of hers that suck less and modern Noddy books are all re-edited to be less offensive so they don't count. I shelled out cash for Five Go to Mystery Moor because of racist issues but the fact that I will have to reread it is not appealing right now, especially when the rest of the material we will belooking at this course is so much fun.

PS Would it be possible for you to Friend me back so I can comment on your blog. Pretty please. I may not talk about it much here but I am a gamer too.

doc_mystery January 19 2006, 16:16:18 UTC

Good day, eh!

In some ways, your comments are reassuring. I'd hate to think that I was missing some great chunk of children's lit!

::B::

P.S. I've since 'friended' (hmm...is that even a word?) but I didn't think that my posts were locked off to furriner's!

::B::

sammywol January 20 2006, 00:32:20 UTC

Whenever I tried to comment since Christmas I got a message saying you had turned on the option that only allowed 'Friends' to post comments. Perhaps you can check that out while joining the mass movement to turn off the nudge option?