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More infantile escapism from your selkie...

posted by [personal profile] selkie at 12:42am on 28/04/2006
...I am very woeful and sad. For lo, I looked around for my copy of A Little Princess....
And I realised I no longer have a copy.

What does it say about me that after all the great, wise books I have read, the books I turn to for comfort are A Little Princess, Ballet Shoes and The Owl Service?
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posted by [identity profile] tibicina.livejournal.com at 04:59am on 28/04/2006
That you have good taste. Well, I haven't actually read The Owl Service, but the other two absolutely indicate good taste. They're comforting sorts of books with just the right amount of pathos for when you're feeling down, but it all gets resolved well at the end.
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fyi from a fellow sara-fan

posted by [identity profile] heidi8.livejournal.com at 07:03am on 28/04/2006
If you need an emergency read of it, it's public domain and thus is probably at Project Guttenberg.
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 12:16pm on 28/04/2006
Cool! I didn't know. I guess it is old...
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posted by [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com at 11:04am on 28/04/2006
...How on earth do you find comfort in The Owl Service?
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 12:12pm on 28/04/2006
I first read it at an age where I could not properly absorb the Mabinogi-creepy. Therefore, it sticks in the pantheon. Alan Garner as comfort author doesn't really work, I know.
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posted by [identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com at 12:08am on 29/04/2006
Ah, that makes a certain amount of sense.

I was taken aback mainly because The Owl Service actually caused me a significant amount of discomfort when I first read it last year. I was in a particularly susceptible mood, and I didn't realize how creepy it was going to be.
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posted by [identity profile] fizzylizard.livejournal.com at 11:14am on 28/04/2006
There's nothing wrong with that at all.

I personally will always love The Little Prince. I've gone through two copies so far, both of which have been read and annotated and loved so much that they've self-destructed...and before I forget, I need to buy my third copy.
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posted by [identity profile] miep.livejournal.com at 12:11pm on 28/04/2006
i remember thinking, about three days after my 11th birthday, "by now, Sara's father had died, and she was all alone," and feeling very sober and wise.

plus, who wouldn't want those two fabulous women from ballet shoes in one's life???
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posted by [identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com at 12:15pm on 28/04/2006
Yeah, but I'm stuck (as [livejournal.com profile] muchabstracted noted) on why The Owl Service got in there. :)
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posted by [identity profile] miep.livejournal.com at 01:30am on 29/04/2006
i have never heard of the owl service, so i can't comment about that.

but, dude, who named Sara wouldn't love little princess?
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