Some snarky cover captions :)
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magog_83Some silliness to cheer up Ven! All genuine 1960s and 1970s child and young adult book covers, many of which I read (I was pony mad as a child).
And has a shit time.
Foolishly, and despite warnings, Jimmy went ahead and looked it in the mouth.
It was about time they got a taste of their own medicine.
Sue might have taken up Physiotherapy, but Kevin was just there for the manicure.
::FIGHTS URGE TO CAPTION::
Sequel to An Alright Autumn and A Marginally Shitty Spring.
No way. Last time he waited you made him go to Ireland.
It would go down in local history as the worst Pony Club Summer BBQ ever.
The most time consuming crime since Elephant Espionage
Thankfully, attitudes had moved on since C.S Lewis's 'The Horse and his Boy'.
And I couldn't ride either of them.
Um... Answers on a postcard? Are those killer birds? Where's the marsh? Is this like 'haters to the left'?
If there were two things Monica hated, even in dreams, it was surprises and Speedos.
Me toooooooooo.
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Date: 2011-02-04 07:17 pm (UTC)I'm sure Miss Pullein-Thompson would spit out her Earl Grey if she read that :D :D
Glad you enjoyed them! I've been giggling at them all for the past hour - if only I could find my old copy of Sally Becomes A Secretary from the Career Novels for Girls series :(
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Date: 2011-02-04 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 07:30 pm (UTC)I'm happy it gave you a laugh anyway! :D
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Date: 2011-02-04 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 07:48 pm (UTC)'Not Such a Bad Summer - Sequel to An Alright Autumn and A Marginally Shitty Spring.'
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Date: 2011-02-04 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 08:08 pm (UTC)Hahahahaha.
Thank you for these. My day is improved as much as it can be without medical intervention, and that's up next! XD ♥
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Date: 2011-02-04 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-04 08:09 pm (UTC)My favorites are:
Sequel to An Alright Autumn and A Marginally Shitty Spring.
and
The most time consuming crime since Elephant Espionage
and
Thankfully, attitudes had moved on since C.S Lewis's 'The Horse and his Boy'.
... or really just all of them
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Date: 2011-02-04 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-05 12:38 am (UTC)and i think we should try and make strangers to the marsh into the new hip saying. when people are rude from now on, i'm saying strangers to the marsh! :D :D :D
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Date: 2011-02-05 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-05 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-05 11:09 am (UTC):D
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Date: 2011-02-05 10:19 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2011-02-13 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-05 09:19 pm (UTC)Hm, I wanted a cat, actually - and I got one, HA :D!
Thank you for making me laugh so hard! :)
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Date: 2011-02-13 07:11 pm (UTC)Hidden in a Dream really does look frightening. In fact I don't think that one's a young adult book... It's not one of the ones I've read, it just turned up on my search and I couldn't resist the WTF-ness of it. I even thought the man was sleeping at first and amused myself by thinking that he would be really ticked off when he woke up soaking wet. But then... no. It all took a turn for the more serious :/
I'm very jealous of you getting a cat! I wanted a pony, or failing that a dog. I never got the pony and I had to wait until I was 15 to get a stubborn little sausage dog :D
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Date: 2011-02-14 02:29 am (UTC):\
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Date: 2011-02-14 02:47 pm (UTC)THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS COMMENT.
I just googled Hidden in a Dream to find out what it was actually about and it is part six in the 'Romney Marsh' series. Who's Romney Marsh I thought? So I searched further and found...
One just doesn't expect to find a pony and trap abandoned with absolutely no trace of the owner. Tamzin and Rissa couldn't understand it at all. And what had Meryon to do with it? Something, obviously, because ever since he had fallen and stunned himself on the breakwater, finding himself unable to remember how it had happened, he had been moody and quite unlike his usual carefree self.
'Tamzin and Rissa?' TAMZIN AND RISSA? PONIES? THE SEASIDE? WAIT... TAMZIN AND RISSA FROM 'WISH FOR A PONY' THAT I WAS NOT EVEN AWARE WAS PART OF A SERIES?!?!?! WHERE THEY SAVE A RUNAWAY HORSE AND END UP WORKING AT A RIDING STABLES FOR THE SUMMER? THE BOOK I LOVED WITH A PASSION WHEN I WAS TEN?!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
Now I have to somehow track down and purchase ALL of these mythical Romney Marsh books. I hereby withdraw all my mockery of the book.
Wikipedia tells me now that, Beginning with Wish for a Pony in 1947, Monica Edwards altogether wrote fifteen titles in the Romney Marsh series of novels. These were set in the village of Rye Harbour which was renamed Westling. The principal characters in the novels are Tamzin Grey, Rissa Birnie, Meryon Fairbrass and Roger Lambert.
::WEEPS WITH JOY::
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Date: 2011-02-06 10:06 am (UTC)Oh, terribly named books of old, bet you didn't see this coming did you? :D :D :D
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Date: 2011-02-13 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-14 02:27 am (UTC)Not that I know who they are, but anyway.
Also, I was always very enticed by Enid Blyton. And The babysitter's club. And sweet valley. Actually, my mother really spoiled us on the book purchasing front.
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