[LMB] QOTD #7: Emotional genre, re: ACC dedication (Sat. Mar. 1st)

[Elizabeth Holden]

--- Amy Sikes <matya13 at yahoo.com> wrote re Bronte, Austen, and Dickens:

> Then again, I *was* traumatized by Dickens in school at too
> young an age.  Really, no one should have to read _David
> Copperfield_ in the 4th grade

You'd be about 9 years old? That really is way too young.  I started Victoria novels with Jane
Eyre (I think) at about thirteen and well so madly in love with it that I couldn't get enough -
was disappointed to discover I didn't like the other Brontes, though I loved all Charlotte's
books.  Then I went on to Dickens and he remains one of my favourite authors ever. Austen... not
so much. (Not enough heart.)

> So perhaps that explains everything!!

It might well, but it's a pity. On the other hand, there's no reason for everyone to like all the
same books.

> Amy ~ apparently now a poster again and not just a lurker - for
> which I will also blame Tora! *g*

<g> I love it when that happens.

namaste,
Elizabeth