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I have GOT to get back into the habit of reading LJ/DW.
The Deeds of the Disturber, one of the funniest Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters, is out of print in hard copy, and unavailable as an e-book. Have tried Kobo, Kindle and iBooks. I will have to get it out of the library, I fear. Grrrrr! I'm trying to re-read the whole series in order, not having read the books in donkeys' years.
I think I’m going to have to give up on re-reading Noel Streatfeild’s book Apple Bough (called Travelling Shoes in some editions). My copy, leftover from my childhood, is literally falling apart, and I will NOT buy another, not when the book aggravates me so much. I end up re-reading it every couple of years and every time I am enraged by how incredibly selfish and immature the Forum children’s parents are.
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So it’s a good book, but David and Polly will drive you around the bend, if you’re anything like me. However, I suppose as parents of child performers go, David and Polly could be worse. I mean, they could be Lindsay Lohan’s parents. Or the parents of various other real-life child and adolescent stars whose stagestruck parents seem more interested in furthering their child’s career and in lining their own pockets than in actually parenting.
The Deeds of the Disturber, one of the funniest Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters, is out of print in hard copy, and unavailable as an e-book. Have tried Kobo, Kindle and iBooks. I will have to get it out of the library, I fear. Grrrrr! I'm trying to re-read the whole series in order, not having read the books in donkeys' years.
I think I’m going to have to give up on re-reading Noel Streatfeild’s book Apple Bough (called Travelling Shoes in some editions). My copy, leftover from my childhood, is literally falling apart, and I will NOT buy another, not when the book aggravates me so much. I end up re-reading it every couple of years and every time I am enraged by how incredibly selfish and immature the Forum children’s parents are.
( Read more... )
So it’s a good book, but David and Polly will drive you around the bend, if you’re anything like me. However, I suppose as parents of child performers go, David and Polly could be worse. I mean, they could be Lindsay Lohan’s parents. Or the parents of various other real-life child and adolescent stars whose stagestruck parents seem more interested in furthering their child’s career and in lining their own pockets than in actually parenting.