tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post1688351907170052782..comments2023-12-31T05:54:02.314-08:00Comments on Books Anonymous: E.J.Oxenham, The Abbey Girls - New TreasuresKazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-43560691487167111842016-11-05T15:02:52.070-07:002016-11-05T15:02:52.070-07:00I hadn't read your post, no - just did and lef...I hadn't read your post, no - just did and left you a comment. <br />Jantyjoy is awful, as is Biddy calling herself Madame Bidet, as reminded by your post!Kazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-77777078461214320982016-11-05T04:50:27.374-07:002016-11-05T04:50:27.374-07:00Rosamund is a pretty name and she's a great ch...Rosamund is a pretty name and she's a great character. Despite all the twins. Jantyjoy is dreadful though isn't it?<br />Fun to discuss some of my favourite books ever. Thanks. I don't know if you have ever read my thoughts on the Abbey Girls?http://mypurplevelvetboxfullofstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/books-to-read-again-abbey-girls-series.htmlGeorginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-91181827054276968692016-11-04T13:19:00.283-07:002016-11-04T13:19:00.283-07:00Ha! No, not Jantyjoy, but if I'd had a daughte...Ha! No, not Jantyjoy, but if I'd had a daughter, I'd quite possibly have used Rosamund...Kazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-73818879601075661752016-11-04T02:04:07.175-07:002016-11-04T02:04:07.175-07:00Absolutely aargh! Such a tragedy.
You're quite...Absolutely aargh! Such a tragedy.<br />You're quite right. The twins are frightful. I loathe all that dreadful "kiddie speak" and why are they never punished when friends and relations are nearly burned to death or drowned? Considering how moral Elsie J is for so much of the books I don't get the way she wrote the twins at all.<br />And... the names! especially towards the end of the series. I bet you wanted to name a daughter Jantyjoy didn't you?? Go on. Admit it!Georginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-13263243757110946302016-11-03T15:14:08.317-07:002016-11-03T15:14:08.317-07:00Great analyses of all the menfolk, LOL!! Joy just ...Great analyses of all the menfolk, LOL!! Joy just irritates me, and the mess she makes of those twins....argh!!! Bratty little toads! Jack Raymond, again, not much of him, is OK too - love all his stuff with Littlejan when she's injured.<br />I hate to think about how many of the old editions of the books must have just been dumped... Op shops are OK, at least someone eventually finds them there and gives them a home, but I know of book collections that were just boxed up and taken to the tip - ARGH!!!Kazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-43439760692590274572016-11-03T14:45:22.910-07:002016-11-03T14:45:22.910-07:00Yes Ken is quite real isn't he. Shame he is fo...Yes Ken is quite real isn't he. Shame he is forced to have a dreadful accident and shunted off on that world cruise. Probably an excuse to get rid of Jen as she is far more interesting than the self-absorbed Joy. Certainly Ken is a proper person compared to the dreadful Andrew and the bossy Sir Ivor Quellyn (he sounds ghastly). And the Earl of Kentisbury is a little bit too saintly (probably all that ill-heath). I think the next best man is probably Jock although he does kind of lose it when Maidlin starts having children.<br />Oh my aunt Dodo. She was... the worst aunt ever. Because of her antics I am forever unable to eat peeled apple! Don't ask. Georginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-8844228163412512102016-11-03T14:14:52.024-07:002016-11-03T14:14:52.024-07:00OMG - if anyone ever spoke to that aunt again she&...OMG - if anyone ever spoke to that aunt again she'd have been very lucky...!!!<br />One of my favourites in the series is Queen of the Abbey - I think Jen is close to my favourite character, and Ken is one of the few men in the series that appears often enough to get a sense of who he actually is, where the others are really shadowy figures.<br />I'll pass on that snack - it does sound yuck!!<br />Kazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06883203750700550391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-61638301825412297512016-11-03T06:02:30.822-07:002016-11-03T06:02:30.822-07:00BTW I write about crisps and crispy snacks and my ...BTW I write about crisps and crispy snacks and my most popular post is about a snack that looks like deep fried cricket and tastes of peas. I thought it horrible but over 900 people can't stop reading about it! Weird.Georginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223421075357845155.post-32825216139565440382016-11-03T06:00:57.836-07:002016-11-03T06:00:57.836-07:00Fantastic! I am lucky enough to have a few really ...Fantastic! I am lucky enough to have a few really nice early copies, but I also have a bunch of Seagull editions and some modern reprints - Biddy's Secret for example. Most of my nice hardbacks were collected by my mother who had original owned first editions of all the early books. But her aunt (her aunt!) threw them all away when she went to uni. Needless to say aunt was never forgiven.<br />What's your favourite plot line? Mine is Rosamund marrying an invalid who is not really expected to live long and going on to have about 6 children including all those little girls with the same name! Bonkers stuff but I am always rereading. Georginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13232154028235485600noreply@blogger.com