Books!

[ailbhe]

I bought Maeve Binchy's "My First Book" and read it. It was BRILLIANT. I must get her other collections of journalism.

And today I ordered PL Travers' Mary Poppins books "for Linnea," and I've explained that we'll have to share them like we did the Ramona ones because I want to read them too. First. Yeah.

Actually, she's a faster reader than I am these days, what with having more free time to devote to it. So she can go first, I guess.

Mary Poppins has interested her in the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. Not sure why.

Comments

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

That's a Maeve Binchy I've never seen or heard of. I wonder if it was ever released in the U.S. I have read every one of her novels and she was one of my very favorite fiction authors. RIP Mrs. B.

[ailbhe]

I haven't read all the novels; her journalism was sold in little collections but quite possibly not as mass-market as the novels.

[velcro-kitten.livejournal.com]

Can i borrow Mary Poppins once you all are done with it?

[ailbhe]

Of course!

Mary Poppins books

[tamar-lindsay.livejournal.com]

You may want to read them first in order to be ready to explain some of the unfortunately dated elements.

Re: Mary Poppins books

[ailbhe]

Oh, I don't remember much that worried me, but I haven't read them for ten years or so - anything in particular?

Re: Mary Poppins books

[tamar-lindsay.livejournal.com]

emailed, but possibly valuable here as well.
I remember noticing the calm assumption that anyone who found out that a family was away on vacation would, *as a matter of course*, break in and rob it, even if they had a normal day job. Also that the person had been told the house would be empty by a maid who had previously been instructed not to tell anyone. My sister noticed the, at best, dated, depictions of black people.