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secretsolitaire

14 Valentines, Day 12

Feb 12, 2009 20:46

Today's topic at 14valentines is education.

I'm sort of taking a roundabout approach to this topic. Books were one of my primary sources of education as a kid (I was a voracious reader), so today I'm talking about five of my favorite female book characters.

( With bonus pictures, because everything is more fun when there's pic spam! )

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Comments 24

libby_drew February 13 2009, 01:51:56 UTC

Yay for Amy! Everybody always loves noble Jo the best. Amy stole my heart too.

secretsolitaire February 14 2009, 00:24:09 UTC

Part of my problem with Jo was that it was obvious the author loved her best. That seemed so blatant that I sort of rebelled against it. :-P

kaalee February 13 2009, 01:54:04 UTC

Okay, Calvin O'Keefe? First literary character I fell absolutely head over heels for. I loved Meg so much and I just loved him for loving her, and he was so amazing (see? absence of any intelligent adjectives) and I was the tiniest bit envious that she was going to get him...

As for the fourth one, I might have read that book, I know I read a bunch of stuff by Ellen Emerson White when I was younger, I'll have to google a bit and see if I remember it at all.

♥

secretsolitaire February 14 2009, 00:48:08 UTC

Calvin! Flail!

I loved Meg so much and I just loved him for loving her

Yes, exactly. She felt herself to be so strange and unlovable sometimes, which I could sympathize with, and the fact that Calvin adored her gave me hope too. ♥

Oooh, have you read it? I don't think I've ever met anyone else who has!

kaalee February 16 2009, 13:28:48 UTC

Yes, I think that's right, too! It gave me hope as well. Oh, Calvin. ♥ Did you read any of the other books with them (sort of peripherally), like with their daughter Poly and etc... He was even awesome as a grown man, and Meg was lovely and so beautifully centered (though we didn't get it from her PoV).

Okay, and I googled -- I read a bunch of books by Ellen Emerson White (some about the girl whose mother becomes President of the US) and I did read Friends for Life, but I never read the other one -- I didn't even know there was another one!!! I'm going to try to find it at a local library, because I enjoyed her books so well when I was a pre-teen/teen.

secretsolitaire February 16 2009, 16:29:15 UTC

I don't think I read many of the Polly books. I just read the four Wrinkle in Time books (I had a boxed set *g*), and a bunch of the Austin books as well.

Ooh, I remember the ones about the daughter of the president! Can't remember the titles, but I liked them a lot. Interestingly, I never read Friends for Life; my library didn't have it, and I knew Beverly wasn't the central character in that one, so I never made too much of an effort to find it. I hope you like Life Without Friends if you're able to track it down. :-)

court1429 February 13 2009, 02:06:56 UTC

Count me among the ones who cheered for Jo & Laurie and was disappointed when it didn't work out.

I wondered if you might include Meg Murry and you did! Those are just the best books. Meg & Calvin might have been my first OTP, come to think of it. Unless it was Laura and Almanzo.

secretsolitaire February 14 2009, 01:12:04 UTC

I remember being very surprised by it the first time I read the book, even though I was excited that Amy got Laurie in the end. Jo and Laurie did have a special bond.

Laura and Almanzo, ooh, I forgot about those two! I loved those books. ♥

glass_icarus February 13 2009, 02:49:38 UTC

OH GOD MEG MURRY. &hearts &hearts &hearts all over the place. Meg/Calvin was totes an early OTP of mine! :D

secretsolitaire February 14 2009, 01:12:32 UTC

They were such love together. *happy sigh*

lionille February 13 2009, 03:58:10 UTC

lusting after puffed sleeves

ROFL! Dear Anne. And I loved Little Women (though my favorite was admittedly Jo) and adored A Wrinkle in Time, although oddly I can't remember a thing about it now except the name of the family dog. I want to find it now and read it again, for old times' sake. And now I'm curious about the other two. *sigh* The best books were always in the YA section, weren't they?

secretsolitaire February 14 2009, 01:14:34 UTC

Wasn't Anne ridiculously endearing? I loved the scene where she accidentally dyes her hair green instead of black. *cuddles her*

What was the name of the family dog? I'm remembering an Ananda...?

There's something special and beloved about books you grow up with. ♥

Dog name lionille February 14 2009, 01:38:14 UTC

Wasn't it Fortinbras? Ah, it's been so long, who knows...

Re: Dog name secretsolitaire February 14 2009, 01:42:42 UTC

Oh, geez. *facepalm* You're absolutely right. I think Ananda was a dog that wandered into the Murry home in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which was one of the sequels to Wrinkle and took place quite a few years later. I seem to recall that Fortinbras was gone by then. :-(