Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
3 journalers for this copy...
Purchased at the Aspinwall Saturday flea market.
Life on Sunnybrook Farm with her mother and six brothers and sisters may be chaotic, but Rebecca loves every minute of it. Leaving them all behind and moving in with her two spinster aunts is almost more than Rebecca can bear. She's just not prepared for her rambunctious spirit to be tamed so that she can become the perfect little lady her dignified aunts want her to be. Even though Rebecca remains true to herself, she does eventually become a proper young lady--but not before having an extraordinary effect on her two aunts and the quiet town of Riverboro.
From Amazon:
Author Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from the headquarters of the First Japanese Army in Manchuria in 1904: "May I thank you for Rebecca?... I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but yesterday.... Why could she not have been my daughter? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" Mark Twain called Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "beautiful and warm and satisfying."
Who is this beguiling creature? The irrepressible 10-year-old Rebecca Rowena Randall burst into the world of children's book characters (and her new life in Maine) in 1903 when storybook girls were gentle and proper. A "bird of a very different feather," she had "a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths.... " Soon enough, she wins over her prim Aunt Miranda, the whole town, and thousands of readers everywhere with her energetic, indomitable spirit.
Life on Sunnybrook Farm with her mother and six brothers and sisters may be chaotic, but Rebecca loves every minute of it. Leaving them all behind and moving in with her two spinster aunts is almost more than Rebecca can bear. She's just not prepared for her rambunctious spirit to be tamed so that she can become the perfect little lady her dignified aunts want her to be. Even though Rebecca remains true to herself, she does eventually become a proper young lady--but not before having an extraordinary effect on her two aunts and the quiet town of Riverboro.
From Amazon:
Author Jack London wrote Kate Douglas Wiggin a letter about her classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm from the headquarters of the First Japanese Army in Manchuria in 1904: "May I thank you for Rebecca?... I would have quested the wide world over to make her mine, only I was born too long ago and she was born but yesterday.... Why could she not have been my daughter? Why couldn't it have been I who bought the three hundred cakes of soap? Why, O, why?" Mark Twain called Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "beautiful and warm and satisfying."
Who is this beguiling creature? The irrepressible 10-year-old Rebecca Rowena Randall burst into the world of children's book characters (and her new life in Maine) in 1903 when storybook girls were gentle and proper. A "bird of a very different feather," she had "a small, plain face illuminated by a pair of eyes carrying such messages, such suggestions, such hints of sleeping power and insight, that one never tired of looking into their shining depths.... " Soon enough, she wins over her prim Aunt Miranda, the whole town, and thousands of readers everywhere with her energetic, indomitable spirit.
Since I ended up with an extra copy of this book, I'm going to send this one traveling in a ray! I am into low stress bookcrossing, so if you need to keep the book more than a few weeks, please make a journal entry to let us know when you'll be able to finish and pass it on. The important thing is that the everybody has an opportunity to enjoy the book, and that we all have fun! I encourage everyone to make a journal entry with their thoughts on the book when they're finished.
Here is the list. I may do some rearranging as the book travels, or as new bookcrossers join, but I will always do my best to honor shipping preferences.
--Angelfirestar - NE
--sweetybeans - OR
--blackadder75 - PA
Here is the list. I may do some rearranging as the book travels, or as new bookcrossers join, but I will always do my best to honor shipping preferences.
--Angelfirestar - NE
--sweetybeans - OR
--blackadder75 - PA
This was sort of an Anne of Green Gables type story. Rebecca is sent to live with her aunts because her family is very poor and so she can go to school and be raised by someone (or something along those lines). Her aunts don't...*love* having her around. Especially the stern, cranky Aunt Miranda (always have to have one of those characters!). So her hijincks annoy her new guardians but they eventually learn to love her. She, of course, mystifies everyone in the communityAnd, for her part, Rebecca becomes much better behaved and refined and becomes a great student and goes on to teaching school. Eh.
The ending was a little weird. I saw it coming, but was thinking the whole time, "No way! That would be too weird!" Oh well.
This was an okay book. It didn't live up to its famous name, in my opinion. I had a few false starts before I was able to get into it. It is old fashioned, and written in an old fashioned style, which seems a little overwrought to me. Finally I adjusted to it and could overlook the writing style to the story. It wasn't bad writing--just different.
Not something I'd really recommend around, but I am willing to share it in the form of a bookray if anyone is interested.
The ending was a little weird. I saw it coming, but was thinking the whole time, "No way! That would be too weird!" Oh well.
This was an okay book. It didn't live up to its famous name, in my opinion. I had a few false starts before I was able to get into it. It is old fashioned, and written in an old fashioned style, which seems a little overwrought to me. Finally I adjusted to it and could overlook the writing style to the story. It wasn't bad writing--just different.
Not something I'd really recommend around, but I am willing to share it in the form of a bookray if anyone is interested.
Journal Entry 4 by mlbish at Bookray in BOOKRAY, Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (4/14/2007 UTC) at Bookray in BOOKRAY, Bookray -- Controlled Releases
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Finally getting this one out. I found it hiding in the desk. Oops!
Finally getting this one out. I found it hiding in the desk. Oops!
recieved today.. took awhile for it to get here from when I was asked.
just received in the mail today. i have one book ahead and then will get to this asap. thanks for sharing
I enjoyed this book, however it had such a huge climax that I felt let down by the ending. IT seems as if the book simply ended and it didn't feel complete. However I like the elegance of her wording and the pure innocence of Rebecca.
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