FIC: The Things We Hold Dear (SGU)

[ziparumpazoo]

Title: The Things We Hold Dear
Rating: G, Gen
Category:Character Study - Lisa Park
Word Count:~550
Summary:Looking back, Lisa still can't figure out how her normally prim and proper Korean grandmother grew to love that particular story so much.

A/N: This was supposed to be my entry for the recentfemme_fic ficathon, but it came up short. Prompt: Lisa is an

Comments

[thothmes]

Okay, so now I want to know- What planet are the other people on Destiny from? I mean the Lucian Alliance guys get a pass, but surely, Eli, Camille, or Chloe were brought up in well regulated households and can recite most of this by heart...

This is, I think, what I would fear most about the journey, losing all those links to the past that made us who we are. I have made a long and concerted effort to track down all my childhood favorites for that very reason.

[holdouttrout]

I actually don't know this book from my childhood--I read it just recently. My family loved books, too, so I don't think it's a matter of having a well-regulated household.

Edited because I wanted to make it clear why I was butting in. Also, upon re-reading your comment, I think your tone is a lot more lighthearted that it seemed at first to me.

[thothmes]

I don't know it from my childhood either. I was too old for it when it was published, but I know it from my brother's childhood. He was nearly nine years younger than I was. For a while Maurice Sendak was The Big Name in children's illustration, and it was hard to avoid running across his work, but I can also see where much of his work (but certainly not all) skews a little to the boy side.

Certainly this particular book went over better with my son, who was more likely to have run-ins with authority than it did with my biddable eldest daughter, who was a little overawed by Max's daring. This is, of course, why I read it to her. It's important for little girls to know that there is magic on the wild side. My son needed to know that after rebellion there can be self mastery and absolution, my daughter needed to learn that wildness does not always lead to disaster.

I assume you were brought up in a well-regulated household with a (regretable) blind spot. I'm glad that you know it now.

[thothmes]

I posted just as your edit came up.

Yeah, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek. I didn't really mean to imply anything about those who weren't read the book as a child, except that they'd missed something good.

Unfortunately (and I know this from being a parent myself) it is not possible to keep on top of every kid's book that comes along so that you can make sure your kid is exposed only to the best of the best.

I know plenty of people for whom this book just doesn't click. Max is too misbehaving, he shouldn't be rewarded like that. The story is just a little weird. The monsters are too scary for their kid. Etc., etc., etc.

I've certainly had plenty of books thrust at me by librarians that I've looked over, and gently refused. Maybe it wasn't the right time for that book for that kid. Maybe the message was not one that grabbed me that day. Maybe there were four others we liked better.

I'm glad that after your second look I no longer offended. As you were able to see, I was being a bit facetious. Certainly no offense was

[holdouttrout]

Aww. I like this look into Lisa's childhood, and the things that she misses, even though she hasn't thought about them in a long time.

[ziparumpazoo]

Aww thanks. I did have this detailed backstory for her, but it was taking over my hard drive and not getting anywhere. Exorcism was the best option.

[shena8]

Loved the story. I, too, am not all that familiar with the book - read it first when I was 22 and that was a long time ago, but I did enjoy it (didn't catch the movie, either, though I heard it was good). I love the vivid memory of Lisa's grandmother and her fear of losing those memories, and then suddenly missing things simply because she can't have them any more and not because they are overly important. "You don't know what you got til it's gone" is *SO* true. Thanks for this beautiful story.

[ziparumpazoo]

I'm so glad you liked it, even though it came up short. Riley's final kino really drove home how it's the little moments they miss... those things that slip away too easily when one's not looking.