Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster

My rainy day reading. Dear Enemy definitely didn't age as well as Daddy-Long-Legs, but I'm enjoying its sweetness! ☔

tpixie I‘ve been wanting to read Daddy Long Legs. It‘s always mentioned as an example of an epistolary novel. I just finished & loved @AmyStewart ‘s most recent novel

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Linsy @tpixie I'm finding I love an epistolary novel! I saw the musical, then saw that the actress read the audiobook, so I kind of came to this series through the back door. But I love Jean Webster now!! Daddy-Long-Legs is definitely the superior novel, in my opinion. And a sweet coming-of-age story. (edited) 3y

tpixie @Linsy oh how fun!! I love epistolary novels as well. They are a little harder to do on audio because they are so visual. I did love

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Linsy @tpixie Ooh, that one's epistolary? I've had it on my TBR for a while, but this definitely bumps it up. Have you read Ella Minnow Pea? It's so weird and wonderful. It's epistolary, and slowly certain letters start disappearing. Hard to explain, but I loved it so much!

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tpixie @Linsy no thanks! I‘ll have to read it!! 3y

tpixie @Linsy what a great title! 3y

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rubyslippersreads

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster

Day 18 of #20Series20Days #Top20Series I ❤️ epistolary novels.

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LeahBergen I still need to hunt down this edition of Dear Enemy. 💙💙 4y

Ruthiella I didn‘t realize there was a second book!? 😀 4y

rubyslippersreads @Ruthiella I wouldn‘t exactly call it a sequel, but it is related. 4y

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BiblioLitten Look at those editions🤩🤩 4y

TheAromaofBooks Oh I have that same edition of Dear Enemy and I love it!! @Ruthiella - I actually love Dear Enemy even more than DDL. It's about Judy's friend Sallie McBride, who is convinced (somewhat unwillingly) to manage the orphanage where Judy grew up, now under the patronage of the Pendletons. It's just a delightful story! 4y

rubyslippersreads @TheAromaofBooks Now you have me wanting to reread Dear Enemy. 😊 4y

TheAromaofBooks I read it again not long ago. I do think part of it may be that when Sallie gets free of her romantic entanglement she expresses feelings about how being with him meant that she was constantly pretending and not really being herself - and when I first read this, I had just exited a similar relationship. The guy wasn't a bad guy, he just wasn't the right person for me. It's left me with a forever-warm feeling towards Sallie!! 4y

Linsy Ohmygosh, I didn‘t know about Dear Enemy! I just recently found Daddy Long Legs after seeing the play. So excited there‘s more!! 4y

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TheBookHippie

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster

pick

💚tagged
💚 Dostoevsky
💚Dead Poet Society
💚 The Dead ✌🏻
💚Dance me to the end of Love by The Civil Wars
#letterD #manicmonday

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AmyK1 I ❤️ Dead Poets Society 4y

Bklover 💚Daddy Long Legs 4y

JoScho Thanks for playing 🤗💚 4y

TheBookHippie @AmyK1 me too! I still remember the first time in the theatre.. it was so quiet. 4y

TheBookHippie @Bklover It‘s such a warm fuzzy read 💚 4y

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rubyslippersreads

Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy | Jean Webster

#funfridayphoto A favorite old-fashioned book, set at least partially at a college. (It's a great musical, too!)

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[DELETED] 2232195534 That's a great pick! 8y

rubyslippersreads @kaysreadinglife Thanks! I especially love this cover. 😀 8y

DebinHawaii Great pick! I should have thought of this one. A favorite for sure. I have my dad's old play book/script from when he played Jervis Pendleton in the 1940s community theater. 👍😀❤️ 8y

rubyslippersreads @DebinHawaii How fun! 😀 8y

Dragon Love the old Fred Astaire movie 8y

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