Sunday, August 10, 2003
Book Lust
Oh wow! I can't believe it: I can get reprints of the Marcy Rhodes Series. Wait for Marcy, written when my mother was in high school, was one of the first teen romances I ever read. I think I was in 5th grade, and bought it at a garage sale, in a paperback reprint from the 60s. It tackled such sensitive 1940s issues as the mother of the family going back to work (Dad's against it, and Marcy and her brother Ken have to make painful adjustments to their mother's new part-time job); Ken's having to adjust to his best friend Steve dating his sister; Ken's pursuit of a Marcy's best friend's sophisticated cousin and his subsequent neglect of his wholesome girlfriend... hey, wait a minute, shouldn't this be called Wait for Ken?
Anyway, I've always loved the world the way that Rosamond DuJardin wrote it. Maybe you will too.
This company is also reprinting such favorite series as Beany Malone, Penny Parrish (I love the Parrishes), Tobey and Midge, and Katie Rose. Wow. My paycheck will suffer for my having found Image Cascade Publishing. But my bookshelf wll prosper. :-) The books seem a little pricey to me, but then, yesterday I bought two grocery bags of gothic romance and romantic suspense from the 60s for $2.00, so my perspective might be a little off.
I'm afraid I'm feeling faint with book lust. I want everything in the catalog. Just look at that wonderful cover art, and the amazing lifelong story arc of Tippy Parrish. When I was in junior high and reading every Janet Lambert book I could get my hands on (most of them had been weeded from my school's library by 1978-79, so I had to get them at the public library, garage sales, and book sales) I followed the well-ordered military life of the Parrishes with a fanatic obsession.
I'd better get offline before I swoon, or do something crazy like order every book they'll send me.
Oh wow! I can't believe it: I can get reprints of the Marcy Rhodes Series. Wait for Marcy, written when my mother was in high school, was one of the first teen romances I ever read. I think I was in 5th grade, and bought it at a garage sale, in a paperback reprint from the 60s. It tackled such sensitive 1940s issues as the mother of the family going back to work (Dad's against it, and Marcy and her brother Ken have to make painful adjustments to their mother's new part-time job); Ken's having to adjust to his best friend Steve dating his sister; Ken's pursuit of a Marcy's best friend's sophisticated cousin and his subsequent neglect of his wholesome girlfriend... hey, wait a minute, shouldn't this be called Wait for Ken?
Anyway, I've always loved the world the way that Rosamond DuJardin wrote it. Maybe you will too.
This company is also reprinting such favorite series as Beany Malone, Penny Parrish (I love the Parrishes), Tobey and Midge, and Katie Rose. Wow. My paycheck will suffer for my having found Image Cascade Publishing. But my bookshelf wll prosper. :-) The books seem a little pricey to me, but then, yesterday I bought two grocery bags of gothic romance and romantic suspense from the 60s for $2.00, so my perspective might be a little off.
I'm afraid I'm feeling faint with book lust. I want everything in the catalog. Just look at that wonderful cover art, and the amazing lifelong story arc of Tippy Parrish. When I was in junior high and reading every Janet Lambert book I could get my hands on (most of them had been weeded from my school's library by 1978-79, so I had to get them at the public library, garage sales, and book sales) I followed the well-ordered military life of the Parrishes with a fanatic obsession.
I'd better get offline before I swoon, or do something crazy like order every book they'll send me.
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