![]() ![]() Speaking of classics, have you ever read Hamlet? If you haven’t, do it right off. He’s kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding-and He has a sense of humour. ![]() Thank heaven I don’t inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. Their God (whom they have inherited intact from their remote Puritan ancestors) is a narrow, irrational, unjust, mean, revengeful, bigoted Person. I find that it isn’t safe to discuss religion with the Semples. I hope you aren’t the Trustee who sat on the toad? It went off-I was told-with quite a pop, so probably he was a fatter Trustee. Speculating on the identity of Daddy-Long-Legs: On the topmost branches of her family tree there’s a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails. On her father’s side they date back further than Adam. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On the subject of her revolting upper-crust roommate, Julia Rutherford Pendleton: Here are some things she says, because I want to fit as many quotes into this review as possible: She also has absolutely no filter whatsoever. She’s Anne Shirley with Lady Sybil’s ideals and Elizabeth Bennet’s sharp wit and judgemental disposition. I can’t believe this book was written in 1912, because most female characters back then were oh-so-proper and ladylike. JUDY IS AMAZING!!!!!!! I cannot overemphasize how awesome she is. She spends the next four years documenting her life to a faceless stranger whom she calls Daddy-Long-Legs, because the only thing she ever saw of him was his tall, spindly shadow. In return for her tuition and living allowance, Judy must write him letters once a month but expect never to hear anything back in return. But one day, the head of the orphanage calls Judy into her office to explain that an anonymous benefactor-one of the orphanage Trustees-has elected to pay for her to go to college. Although it’s not quite the Dickensian hell that many orphanages were at the time, Judy’s life is pretty bleak and monotonous. Jerusha “Judy” Abbott (Jesus, what a name) has spent her whole life growing up in the John Grier Home, an asylum for foundlings. Seriously, why are you still here? Don’t you listen to anything I have to say? Well, even though you deserve nothing from me since you don’t follow my instructions, I guess you can have a plot summary. ![]() Just trust me that it’s awesome and go to Amazon (or whatever your favorite site for ebooks is) and download it for FREE, and then we can talk. I’m blaming this book’s lack of popularity on this series of bad covers, ranging from merely dull to downright creepy.įirst things first. What the actual fuck?! How has not a single publishing house taken this book and designed a half-decent cover for it? They don’t even have to pay author royalties because it was written in 1912 and is in the public domain. This book is clearly about Dapper Jiminy Cricket showing up to offer Sad Woman fashion advice on her torn stockings and unruly hair. Oh look, an even uglier variation on the same lackluster theme. Hey it’s essentially the same boring book cover, with less BSC! YAWN. JUST WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED! This book, with a bonus introduction by the author of The Baby-sitters Club! Because that makes all the sense in the world! Precocious Orphan and book-lover Anne Shirley is inadvertently adopted by aging brother-sister duo, Marilla and Matthew Cuthb-wait, haven’t I read this book already? Is this dashing, top-hatted man the dreamy gentleman caller Emily has been waiting for, or the cold-blooded serial strangler known as “Daddy-Long-Legs,” out for a night on the town in his murder gloves? OMG LOOK OUT THERE IS A CREEPY MAN WHO FOLLOWED YOU HOME LURKING BEHIND YOU!īarbara-Jean is hatching a plot that will lure hunky Steve Johnson into her clutches at last! Seriously, what the hell is this book about? Any guesses? No? Ok, well here are some other alternatives: But this edition probably hasn’t been in print for 50, 60 years? What else have you got for me, internet? Including a collection of the world’s worst covers ever to besmirch the name of a really good book. So Megan no h introduced me to this book (THANK YOU MEGAN <3 <3 <3!!!), and she was kind enough to send me all her research on the subject. Bonus Factors: Anne Shirley Award for Precocious Orphanhood, Women’s College, Patronage
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