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Day 6 of the Obsessive Book Lover's Month of Books
Okay, well mostly any book will do. But if we're talking about a book that will immediately send me rocketing off in search of convivial fellowship with mankind (that is, going to bother my mom in the kitchen) it is Eloise.
It is presented as "a book for precocious grown-ups" (which does not work out to an insult, but I think it *does* work out to mean adults who can remember what being a child is like, which makes them much more mature than most) and this is a good way to put it.
The drawings take the oddball story one step further into hilarity. This book laughs, not at the expense of the people it pokes fun at, but instead treating them all as part of the idiosyncratic world we know.
Nanny is a boxing fan who drinks and yells while watching matches, though otherwise is quite presentable. Eloise is a child whose energy and disregard for adults as she lives a fairly independent life are not that of a little monster (though no doubt many of her neighbors regard her so) but that of a small person. The personalities around her are undiminished by the largeness of hers.
Distilling it down, it's like reading a P.G. Wodehouse novel without the brain-wracking plots to push through, a moment of "cheerful humanity".
This was one of the first books I bought with the express purpose of having for my own house, as my own property, rather than just because I wanted it handy all the time.
If you now need to see it, I do lend it from time to time, and my brother tore the dustjacket already, so it's not an enshrined copy, to which no harm may befall. Feeling a need of Eloise?
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I have an amendment to make, about picture books and being read to.
I remember my mother loving the Madeline books! This may be one of my earliest experiences of her enthusiasm for something I didn't think she should be so excited about causing me to be contrary. Sadly, it is not the last. Nor was it the only time I was proved wrong in my skepticism. XD
The fun, unexpectedly strong-willed heroine is much more impressive to me as an adult looking back, than it was at the time.
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fabricalchemist ...I didn't much like this art either. T_T I find it fun now, but back then it just seemed simplistic, and dumbed down... Forgive me?
What books lift your mood when you don't want to talk to people?
Okay, well mostly any book will do. But if we're talking about a book that will immediately send me rocketing off in search of convivial fellowship with mankind (that is, going to bother my mom in the kitchen) it is Eloise.
It is presented as "a book for precocious grown-ups" (which does not work out to an insult, but I think it *does* work out to mean adults who can remember what being a child is like, which makes them much more mature than most) and this is a good way to put it.
The drawings take the oddball story one step further into hilarity. This book laughs, not at the expense of the people it pokes fun at, but instead treating them all as part of the idiosyncratic world we know.
Nanny is a boxing fan who drinks and yells while watching matches, though otherwise is quite presentable. Eloise is a child whose energy and disregard for adults as she lives a fairly independent life are not that of a little monster (though no doubt many of her neighbors regard her so) but that of a small person. The personalities around her are undiminished by the largeness of hers.
Distilling it down, it's like reading a P.G. Wodehouse novel without the brain-wracking plots to push through, a moment of "cheerful humanity".
This was one of the first books I bought with the express purpose of having for my own house, as my own property, rather than just because I wanted it handy all the time.
If you now need to see it, I do lend it from time to time, and my brother tore the dustjacket already, so it's not an enshrined copy, to which no harm may befall. Feeling a need of Eloise?
***
I have an amendment to make, about picture books and being read to.
I remember my mother loving the Madeline books! This may be one of my earliest experiences of her enthusiasm for something I didn't think she should be so excited about causing me to be contrary. Sadly, it is not the last. Nor was it the only time I was proved wrong in my skepticism. XD
The fun, unexpectedly strong-willed heroine is much more impressive to me as an adult looking back, than it was at the time.
But
fabricalchemist ...I didn't much like this art either. T_T I find it fun now, but back then it just seemed simplistic, and dumbed down... Forgive me?
