tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post338044410370709424..comments2024-03-10T16:42:34.106-04:00Comments on Collecting Children's Books: A Sunday Brunch for a Lucky DecemberPeter D. Sierutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301507180150710089noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-24661711964537131632009-12-07T20:37:11.682-05:002009-12-07T20:37:11.682-05:00P.S. I also like your finishing Middlemarch, only...P.S. I also like your finishing Middlemarch, only to find the next book you picked up included a quote from Middlemarch! That reminds me of the day I finished reading Vanity Fair. That very night on Jeopardy one of the answers was a quote from Vanity Fair. I felt so literate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-66034453153734611452009-12-07T20:33:45.594-05:002009-12-07T20:33:45.594-05:00As other commenters have said, I learned of Rabbit...As other commenters have said, I learned of Rabbit Rabbit from Trixie Belden. I re-read a couple of Trixie Beldens recently and was surprised by how instructive they are, including information on how to treat a snake bite, or how to make hamburgers. I must have learned a lot of trivia from those books!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-26818118344278922002009-12-05T10:47:51.233-05:002009-12-05T10:47:51.233-05:00Knife of Never Letting Go: as I began reading, I f...Knife of Never Letting Go: as I began reading, I found it hard to reconcile Middlemarch and a talking, pooing dog found within pages of each other. That talking, pooing dog almost turned me off on the first page, but I kept reading and was glad I did.Lauriehttp://sixboxesofbooks.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-28150505492223835372009-12-01T10:58:37.580-05:002009-12-01T10:58:37.580-05:00My husband's family grew up playing Rabbit, Ra...My husband's family grew up playing Rabbit, Rabbit, but a simpler version - all you had to do was say "Rabbit, Rabbit" before you spoke any other words after waking on the first.<br /><br />Like you, I can never remember. One of my kids had the good idea of sleeping with a stuffed rabbit on the last day of the month, to prompt her to remember.Carol Baicker-McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07190497340312463771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-30921253115910753932009-11-30T15:08:22.474-05:002009-11-30T15:08:22.474-05:00Trixie Belden - Mystery of the Emeralds....Trixie Belden - Mystery of the Emeralds....Bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031674347783955363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-34610719728255227362009-11-29T21:17:32.558-05:002009-11-29T21:17:32.558-05:00I also first heard about Rabbit Rabbit from Trixie...I also first heard about Rabbit Rabbit from Trixie Belden. She kind of cheated and put a sign on the footpost at the end of her bed that said "Say Rabbit" ...forgot which mystery it was in. In that same chapter, I learned the word "ennui" from her brother.<br /><br />I read Middlemarch every ten years: 1999, 2009, 2019...?Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-74287572122265913392009-11-29T18:29:42.908-05:002009-11-29T18:29:42.908-05:00Congratulations on finishing Middlemarch! I'm ...Congratulations on finishing Middlemarch! I'm sorry you didn't love it, but... maybe you'll like Daniel Deronda better!Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492841891625994218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-73596370217251682152009-11-29T16:52:59.585-05:002009-11-29T16:52:59.585-05:00How did you come across the Chuck Rothman post abo...How did you come across the Chuck Rothman post about THTHY? A lucky chance while googling? What a find! <br /><br />Thanks for helping shed some more light on one my favorite YAs from those impressionable years.Daughter Number Threehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-44197704525145244832009-11-29T15:05:04.710-05:002009-11-29T15:05:04.710-05:00Ah, thank you for another great post, and especial...Ah, thank you for another great post, and especially the local Michigan stuff.<br /><br />I think they've changed the state slogan to "Pure Michigan" now, though, since that's what the sign at the IN/MI border on 1-94 has said for the last two months. <br /><br />I liked "Say yes to Michigan" a lot more, although my husband I did have a good discussion on the Pureness that is Michigan for a few miles last night.Sandy D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08650640470141210550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-69483557603721400162009-11-29T14:45:29.018-05:002009-11-29T14:45:29.018-05:00I first heard about "Rabbit, rabbit" fro...I first heard about "Rabbit, rabbit" from a Trixie Belden (and I'm sure that's where CLM got it, too). As I recall, Trixie's version was less elaborate, and it meant you got a wish to come true. Trixie wished for a new mystery, which sort of annoyed me, because the mysteries generally just distracted the Bob-Whites from good stuff like folk dancing, running wildly successful antique shows, and eating hunter's stew.Wendyhttp://sixboxesofbooks.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-35754359574299053402009-11-29T14:23:00.363-05:002009-11-29T14:23:00.363-05:00I never read that Scoppettone but my sister and I ...I never read that Scoppettone but my sister and I did try to remember to say, "Rabbit, rabbit," on the first day of the month so there must have been some other book that inspired us, which I hope one of your other readers will remember.<br /><br />I did love Fog Magic which I found in my elementary school library but never read her other books which I must now hunt down.<br /><br />Have you read Shadow Castle, which I read about the same time as Fog Magic? My copy was my mother's, printed with color plates but the disclaimer that it was printed on war paper. Not only did I reread it many many times, I tried copying it in longhand to send to my pen pals. I would have persevered had they been better correspondents!CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.com