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   From: ebroadwe@see-below-in.sig.thanks   
      
   The Eternal Lost Lurker  wrote:   
   >(I never DID get around to reading the Margaret book, incidentally.)   
      
   Lucky you.  I did.  It cemented a profound loathing for Judy Blume's   
   books that hasn't entirely left me to this day.  I found her female   
   characters unbelievable -- which is to say that they were all deathly   
   worried about issues I found either incomprehensible or irrelevant at age   
   11.  (And nobody ever saved the world in a Judy Blume book.  Kiss of   
   death right there to an eleven-year-old busy devouring Lloyd Alexander,   
   Susan Cooper, C.S. Lewis and Diana Wynne Jones.  I might regard Blume   
   differently today, of course ... but I still think the   
   not-saving-the-world thing might tell against her ...)   
      
   Peace,   
   Liz   
      
   --   
   Liz Broadwell (username-in-header at orphco dot org), Charter Orphan   
   -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-   
   "Our target remains inert, men.  Set phasers to chafe."   
   "But she sleeps like an angel!"   
   "Point taken.  Fluff her pillow a little." -- David Willis, _Roomies_   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)