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Dear Enemy (Daddy-Long-Legs, #2)
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bookshelves: forever-favorite, comfort-read, epistolary
Jan 08, 2008
bookshelves: forever-favorite, comfort-read, epistolary
Read 2 times. Last read December 27, 2018.
Eugenics, oh dear, oh dear. This book has all sorts of dodgy stuff in that can be overlooked a bit - but not completely! - by always keeping the mantra, "This was written almost a hundred years ago," going in your head while you're reading. I would give it five stars - on the whole, I like this one more than Daddy-Long-Legs, which it comes after - but alas! It is really quite dodgy to a reader now.
But for everything else that is not dodgy, I only have massive amounts of love. As an epistolary novel, I think this works better than Daddy-Long-Legs. That is only concerned with Judy's one-sided correspondence with her mysterious benefactor. I like better in this book that we see Sallie's letters to more people; 'tis interesting to see how her style changes and evolves with all of them, and what she tells and omits to each.
The romance is better here too, as a) they have a relationship of equality and mutual respect and b) I adore both parties instead of just one as in Daddy-Long-Legs.
And I do adore Sallie. She is both frivolous and hard-working, and I approve of this. Loveliness!
My heart is warmed with love for this book. Five stars for being fantastic! Minus one star for dodginess!
But for everything else that is not dodgy, I only have massive amounts of love. As an epistolary novel, I think this works better than Daddy-Long-Legs. That is only concerned with Judy's one-sided correspondence with her mysterious benefactor. I like better in this book that we see Sallie's letters to more people; 'tis interesting to see how her style changes and evolves with all of them, and what she tells and omits to each.
The romance is better here too, as a) they have a relationship of equality and mutual respect and b) I adore both parties instead of just one as in Daddy-Long-Legs.
And I do adore Sallie. She is both frivolous and hard-working, and I approve of this. Loveliness!
My heart is warmed with love for this book. Five stars for being fantastic! Minus one star for dodginess!
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Reading Progress
January 1, 2008
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Started Reading
January 1, 2008
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Finished Reading
January 8, 2008
– Shelved
January 8, 2008
– Shelved as:
forever-favorite
January 8, 2008
– Shelved as:
comfort-read
January 10, 2008
– Shelved as:
epistolary
December 27, 2018
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Started Reading
December 27, 2018
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Finished Reading
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Nov 02, 2016 07:37PM
Later in the book Sallie writes to Judy that she regrets her comments about 'insane' people, as it must have hurt the Doctor's feelings, and she did not know his secret, so did not know the reason he wanted her to read all the books about the mentally ill. Sallie is actually very forward thinking, she beileves the asylum is a terrible place for children and wants to have them settled in homes or at least home like arrangements. obviously this book is a reflection of the era it was written in. The style and the clever construction of the story line is quite brilliant.
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