50 in '11: #14
Sep. 26th, 2011 03:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Title: New Chronicles of Rebecca
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Length: 278 pages
I was excited to find out about, win an auction on, and receive this book. And given that it's a 104-year-old edition, I'm still relatively jazzed about it.
But it wasn't what I'd been hoping for. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, y'see, always seemed to me to have left off on something of a cliffhanger. A but what happened then? note. And this book largely doesn't address that. It's not a true sequel, y'see, but a series of short stories which fit into the narrative of the first book. They're not bad stories by any means, but I'd wanted to read about Rebecca grown up.
Still, the book covers grown-up topics such as death, poverty, hope, and the all-American concept of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to make something of yourself. There's far shallower reading material out there for teens and pre-teens. So it's all good.
But the last story happens about a year after the first book leaves off, and it's an even worse cliffhanger feeling...!
Verdict: recommended for lovers of the first book.
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Length: 278 pages
I was excited to find out about, win an auction on, and receive this book. And given that it's a 104-year-old edition, I'm still relatively jazzed about it.
But it wasn't what I'd been hoping for. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, y'see, always seemed to me to have left off on something of a cliffhanger. A but what happened then? note. And this book largely doesn't address that. It's not a true sequel, y'see, but a series of short stories which fit into the narrative of the first book. They're not bad stories by any means, but I'd wanted to read about Rebecca grown up.
Still, the book covers grown-up topics such as death, poverty, hope, and the all-American concept of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to make something of yourself. There's far shallower reading material out there for teens and pre-teens. So it's all good.
But the last story happens about a year after the first book leaves off, and it's an even worse cliffhanger feeling...!
Verdict: recommended for lovers of the first book.
