3 posts tagged “turn of the century books”
1. I tried to post a movie a long time ago, The Bat (epic fail).
2. I saw an advert for a book in the 100 years ago today New York Times called When A Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart.
3. I thought Hmm, that looks like interesting... I checked gutenberg.org, and there it was/is.
4. Also in her list of books was a title I recognized, The Bat.
5. I thought, could that be the same story-line of that movie, The Bat, I tried to post so long ago? It was! I had no idea The Bat was based on a book.
Aside: Agnes Moorehead is one of my favorite actresses and she's way under-appreciated. She was such a good actress I feel badly that she's only remembered for her campy role as Endora. She was in an episode of the Twilight Zone called THE INVADERS that CREEPED ME OUT when I was a kid. CREEPED ME OUT, but I remember even at such a young age thinking she's a marvelous actress to pull that role off.
Billy Whiskers - Frances Trego: A story of a goat's adventures.
Little Black Mingo - Helen Bannerman: A companion book to Little Black Sambo.
Maida's Little Shop - Inez Haynes Gillmore: A once lame girl now needs to do something with herself, so she opens a little shop and has nice times with her neighbors. Very adorable.
Railway Children - Edith Nesbit: A family torn apart, a move to the country, secrets and activities at the Railway Station. A very engaging read.
How Ethel Hollister became a CampFire Girl - Irene Benson: Ethel's uptight gold-digger mother wants Ethel to have nothing to do with the CFG, but Ethel manages to get involved anyway and has the best experiences.
Marjorie Dean, HS Freshman - Pauline Lester: Marjorie has to move schools. Many trials and tribulations are rewarded with life-long friends.
Jack of both Sides - Florence Coombe: A Boy's school story. One boy, Jack, shows both sides of the school they can get along.
The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp - Katherine Stokes: This was a GREAT read. A group of girls motors out to the mountains for a holiday and meet all kinds of characters and have exciting, and mildly unnerving happenings happen around them.
The Motor Maids' School Days: Katherine Stokes: Not as good as Sunrise Camp, but enjoyable just the same. A typical school story.
The Outdoor Chums, The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club - Quincy Allen: I was so certain I'd read this, but upon going back to it and reading the first bit, I don't recall this story at all.
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army - Margaret Vandercook: A group of young women become Red Cross Nurses in WWI and end up in war ravaged Russia. A predictable, but yet engrossing read.
And how can I not list favorites that I read more than a month ago?
The Bobbsey Twins - Laura Lee Hope: A group of 2 sets of twins, brothers and sisters all, have mysterious adventures and exciting vacations.
The Scotch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins: One of a series of TWINS books set in different geographical regions. This one, of course, was Scotland. I ADORED this book. LOVED IT!
Grace Harlowe - Jessie Graham Flower: A school story of Grace and her chums. (I've read the whole HS and college series, but not the Overland Riders theme)
The Outdoor Girls - Laura Lee Hope: A group of young women form a camping, and tramping club and go neat places and solve mysteries and have assorted adventures. The Outdoor Girls is MY FAVORITE SERIES so far...
Ruth Fielding - Alice B. Emerson: Orphan Ruth goes to live with her Uncle and goes off to school and other places. My second favorite series... so far...
Other books I've read in the past 6 months:
A Little Miss Nobody; or, With the Girls of Pinewood School - Amy Bell Marlowe: Loved it!
Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner:
Trixie Belden - Julie Campbell:
Adventure at Brackendale - Linda Peters:
Strawberry Girl - : I found some of her other Regional stories in the library (I was amazed to find them!) but they were awful. Not nearly any of them as great as Strawberry Girl. Disappointed.
I know I've missed a few books that I can't place now, but at least I have this mostly complete list and it seems every time I go back to the Series Bookshelf at Gutenberg there are several new serieses (is that right, serieses?) listed, I'll be happily reading till I'm wearing Coke-Bottle lenses.
Do you like stories about twins? About Scotland? Then you might like THE SCOTCH TWINS (1919) by Lucy Fitch Perkins. It made me clap my hands with excited anticipation many times. I can't explain why very well... I knew what twists were coming but it was told so well I felt like I was a fly on the wall the whole time. You know what's coming, but you aren't quite sure that's exactly what IS going to happen....
There are other books in the TWINS series, but this great little easy read was an immense delight.
Here's a sample from the Gutenberg E-text:
"At the very moment when Jock and Tam came flying over the fence and down the hill like a cyclone after the rabbit, Angus was kneeling beside the brook to get a drink. His lips were pursed up and he was bending over almost to the surface of the water, when something dashed past him, and an instant later something else struck him like a thunderbolt from behind, and drove him headforemost into the brook! It wasn't Tam that did it. It was Jock! Of course, it was an accident, but Angus thought he had done it on purpose, and he was probably the most surprised as well as the angriest man in Scotland at that moment. He lifted his head out of the brook and glared at Jock as fiercely as he could with little rills of water pouring from his hair and nose, and trickling in streams down his neck.
"I'll make you smart for this, you young blatherskite," he roared at Jock, who stood before him frozen with horror. "I'll teach you where you belong! You were running after that rabbit, and your dog is yelping down a hole after her this minute!" He was such a funny sight as he knelt there, dripping and scolding, that, scared as he was, Jock could not help laughing. More than ever enraged, Angus made a sudden lunge forward and seized Jock by the ear."
