Eee! New Book!
Sep. 7th, 2011 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76In browsing on the Shop Goodwill site last month, I paused on a listing.
Hmm. Kate Douglas Wiggin. Sounds familiar. Go to Wikipedia... ah! The author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. (Which, yes, I have read. Several times. And the end of it always felt somewhat incomplete to me.) Go back to listing. "New Chronicles of Rebecca." Go back to Wikipedia. Poke around. Discover that, yes, it is in fact a sequel and not just a different version of the same story. (Look up "Sara Crewe" versus "A Little Princess" for an example of two versions of the same story. Both of which I have.) Excitedly enter bid! Wait a few days. Win. Pay. Wait more days for shipping.
Get home from work. Open package. Do happy dance.
(I have both the Heidi sequels as well. Next, I shall collect Pollyanna, which was not nearly as saccharine as the Disney film based on it, and all its sequel books.)
Now, I read....
Hmm. Kate Douglas Wiggin. Sounds familiar. Go to Wikipedia... ah! The author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. (Which, yes, I have read. Several times. And the end of it always felt somewhat incomplete to me.) Go back to listing. "New Chronicles of Rebecca." Go back to Wikipedia. Poke around. Discover that, yes, it is in fact a sequel and not just a different version of the same story. (Look up "Sara Crewe" versus "A Little Princess" for an example of two versions of the same story. Both of which I have.) Excitedly enter bid! Wait a few days. Win. Pay. Wait more days for shipping.
Get home from work. Open package. Do happy dance.
(I have both the Heidi sequels as well. Next, I shall collect Pollyanna, which was not nearly as saccharine as the Disney film based on it, and all its sequel books.)
Now, I read....
