<![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> you know the great gilly hopkins is slated to be moviefied next year...

mallikarao

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Caroline Bradshaw? I wonder if it's an homage on Bushnell's part.

Cthulhah Bankhead

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I still want that dress.

pettyhooker

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Ya know, what I think I like best about these are the cover scans-- they're exactly the covers I remember from my own childhood. Last year, one of my neighbors put a bunch of YA books out on her stoop-- her daughter, I guess, outgrew them-- and they were all my old favorites: The Outsiders, The Westing Game, I Am the Cheese, some Judy Blume stuff... but they all had these newfangled "updated" covers that just didn't seem right anymore. I mean, I know the books are the same as they were 25 years ago... and yet, they're not. So thanks for not only doing these reviews, but for giving me the visual nostalgia factor.

snappaloosa

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I, too, loved this one and was delighted to see it get the Fine Lines treatment. (Every Friday I'm excited to see what's next-"Waiting for Johnny Miracle"? "Mother wants a Horse"? )

Wheeze was so close to me I wanted to be her. I've always wondered if the end was a hat tip to "Little Women" (tomboy protaganist doesn't marry childhood friend/true love hooking up instead with older dude in what seems like an afterthought romance). I always thought I would ask Paterson if I got the chance.

thehoyden

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I read this when I was around 13 and it bored me to tears. I was always fascinated with young adult books set in New York and environs, because I grew up in a rural area and the problems those characters faced seemed far more sophisticated than my own.

But the story of a broody girl in the middle of nowhere? Already living it, thanks.

Mercutia

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Please do Izzy, Willy-Nilly! That I still read once a week!

Sophieindeed

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Sara Louise ended up in a West Virginia mountain town named Truitt, which was her father's name, if I remember correctly. She started out at UMD in College Park, then dude dean told her girls can't go to med school with all the GI dudes returning from war so she transferred to the University of Kentucky.

Sophieindeed

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @janna: Oh, man, me neither. Bridge to Terabithia is the first book I recall actually fucking SOBBING while reading. I remember thinking, "this is just not fucking FAIR." It still makes me a little teary-eyed, and I haven't seen the movie, but I just hated the way they portrayed it as a family-friendly fantasy in the trailers.

youwantedahero

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> OMG I loved this book. I read it probably 20 times in 5th grade. I also really loved 'Winter Dreams, Christmas Love', which I think I re-read 4 times a year, and still re-read occasionally. I love this feature. I will look forward to every Friday now.

legaltemptress

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I nominate Sara, Plain and Tall or Anne of Green Gables for the next Fine Lines! Pllleeeeasseee!

RubiksPube

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I have never read this book... However, being named Jacob, this was cause for many jokes in elementary school. And I distinctly remember the girl I had a crush on reading it and imagining her actually liking me.

Wait... by revealing that do I have to give up my man card?

Vagari

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I have LOVED this book since I first read it in junior high - I have had a difficult relationship with my own sister, and this book really spoke to me and gave me something that I could identify with at a time when I felt I wasn't heard by my family. Truly a powerful, wonderful book!

fat_chic

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> aw, man. i'm a children's librarian, and my dirty secret is that the only thing i hate more than "Jacob Have I Loved" is "Bridge to Terabithia". Gilly Hopkins is made of awesome, though.

@cmd: this book ("Just as Long..") still becomes the obsession of every child whose hands i put it in. thought you'd like to know...

athieno

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh how I adored Katherine Paterson.
Gilly Hopkins, Bridge to Terabithia, and her Japanese novels (Sign of the Chrysanthemum, Of Nightingales that Weep, The Master Puppeteer).
So fabulous.

Cthulhah Bankhead

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @hildegaard: I loved Catherine Called Birdy- although the sequel wasn't as good and The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Thankfully I saved all of my books so I will get to enjoy them again one I have kids.

99centbar

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @distractedbyshinyobjects: What about The Hundredth Thing About Caroline by Lois Lowry? Or Caroline the awesome big sister in Father's Arcane Daughter?

RocktheDebit

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @zissou: harriet the spy made me so uncomfortable when reading it when everyone found her journal.

I love love love phantom tollbooth. still one of my favorite books.

I really need to go back to my parent's house and pick up some of these books to reread. Jacob I Have Loved, Catherine Called Birdie, Witch of Blackbird Pond, this is such a great feature!

hildegaard

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I just saw the Bridge to Terabithia movie (I'm stuck in the house due to strep throat!) and I cried my eyes out! Much like in 3rd grade after reading the book.

PS I live in MD and no one can make a living crabbing anymore. sad

kaylinda

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @harriet-the-spy: They should call that book Johnny Deformed!

Aaaaack...I can't believe you guys pulled out Jacob Have I Loved! I nearly had a heart attack just seeing this cover. I don't think I could bear it read it again--it was probably the only book I read in my pre-teen years that actually rang so true, it hurt.

Grr, I still hate that stupid Caroline.

KidPresentable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: her breasts were the size of apples and i remember the outhouse. and i loooooooved the midwife's apprentice!

Kaitydid

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @FreudianSlip: Oh my god, Summer of My German Soldier. I've never met anyone else who's read it, but I used to cry and cry and cry.

MissPeach

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @harriet-the-spy: Oh Johnny Tremaine. I work at a B&N kid's dept and whenever I sell that book to parents I play up the historical-y-ness of it, but whenever I try selling it to the kid I'm all "he has a deformed hand!"

I actually never read Jacob Have I Loved. But now I really want to. But I LOVE "The Great Gilly Hopkins." Although I remember there were a lot of 70's pop culture stuff I never understood...

Ohhh... how about next Mollie Hunter's "A Stranger Came Ashore" or Ellen Conford's "A Royal Pain" or Richard Peck's "Ghosts I Have Been." Or my absolute fave: Jerry Spinelli's "There's a Girl in My Hammerlock." I think that one kick started my uber feminism.

Sunshineyness

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I had this book!! I never really "got" it though. Perhaps I should read it as an adult now. I DO remember that last bit about the twins now that you posted it here.

And I always thought Louise was prettier than Caroline on that cover too.

Maulleigh

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> My favorite part of this book is when Caroline finds the bottle of Ponds lotion that Louise had been saving EVERY penny for, and starts slathering it on her perfect hands. BITCH! I was righteous mad as Louise when she threw it at Caroline's head.

EaterLover

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @kikidrunkst: I just bought that at the dollar store a few weeks back, haven't yet watched it though.

cimsagro

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @tiffcat: Count me in with the hand obsession

And a vague discomfort with attraction to older males, sadness that Cal picked Caroline, and gratitude to an otherwise disliked 5th grade teacher for giving me this book.

@PhoneticLorin: I love that book! I need to reread it, right now!

cimsagro

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @Chryss: OMG The Westing Game! That was so awesome!! Yes!

Or...The Mixed-up Tales of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (I think that was the name)...That book made me want to live in the Milwaukee Public Museum (or in the Milwaukee Art Museum in the antique furniture section).

Or Anne of Green Gables. Gilbert Blythe was literally my dream man from age 10 onwards.

redrover189

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Roald Dahl's short stories are awesome! Very dark and funny.

How about Harriet the Spy? The Ballad of Lucy Whipple?

thisisradioash

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @layladylan: Till We Have Faces: awesome, amazing book. Amen.

Cattitude

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> this was my favorite book, followed closely by "Just As Long As We're Together"

cmd

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @PhoneticLorin: Oh My God. Someone else who loved "Till We Have Faces"! My favorite CS Lewis book, it always draws tears from me. What an amazing read. I'm so glad to hear of someone else who knows this book and loves it like I do!

Cattitude

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @thefiftyfourth: Dancing Shoes is the best Stretfield, imo. Oh and I JUST found out she's a woman (always thought Noel was a man!). Now I love it even more!

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @PetiteGal: I haven't read this one either. And I read a lot. So count me in for the "Fine Lines Didn't Appeal to Me This Week" club :(

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AfternoonAttendee: YES. I still reread The Westing Game every year! TheGuvnah and I adore it. ADORE.

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I was just thinking about this book on the way home today! I haven't read it in years. It successfully captures the essence of what it's like to be a frustrated kid/teenager. It's painful, but amazingly good.

clodia

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @distractedbyshinyobjects: I think it's because Carolines got all the songs. I mean, seriously, I can think of 10 pretty good songs with Caroline in the verse/chorus without even working hard.

Loved, loved this book. This is also the cover mine had, I think. But man, I have to say, such a good title. So true to the book and also so memorable.

TinyK

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @bellethellama: I think you just pinned the tail on the donkey of why I love the "Fudge" books. My younger bro and I are super-duper close and there were a lot of bad-older-sibling/good-younger-sibling books I just couldn't relate to. Or related to but still was angry at because, dammit, Beezus is just misunderstood! Ramona is annoying!

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I always totally related to this book! I was a twin, and the older girl, and my brother had colic so my mother would tell me about how I was always a good baby and was happy sitting in a basket or something while they dealt with my brother screaming from colic.

They also told me I was the ugly baby from my brother squishing me in the womb.

StrawberryOrange

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> oh, and what about "House of Stairs"? I just went to the bookshelf where I'm saving stuff for my daughter and decided to curl up with it right now....

whatever

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> cellochick:

omigod - I totally substituted O Holy Night because I didn't know I Wonder as I Wander too!!

how funny.

Did any of you read Summer of the Monkeys? That book is awesome, and the older sibling is kinda heroic. I guess that's the case with Old Yeller too. Hmmm now that I think about it, the older one gets off easier when the older one is a boy.

mynameisrio

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> As I was typing out "The Phantom Tollbooth," I knew someone would point out that it's really, truly, a children's book (a fantastic, wonderful children's book), but come on, if we did "All of a Kind Family" (suggested age 11-14) then we can also do "Wrinkle in Time," right? I KNOW it's a damn fantasy, but why should that disqualify it?

whatever

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @svreader: Judy Blume's Fudge books were probably some of the best childrens' books out there that didn't villify the older sibling. Read all of those books to shreds growing up.

Sigh. Big hug for all of you--this post warms my heart more than seeing adorable polar bear pictures. I identified with this not as the unpretty sister, but as the less-successful sister (at least at first) because my older brother was such a HS academic superstar. Even in the intervening years it's hard to shake that, despite kicking ass in college (first in the family to ever make Dean's List!) because everything he does still seems to be the awesomenest and the best. I really must re-read this ASAP.

bellethellama

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I still cry when I read Ring of Endless Light and Goodnight, Mr. Tom. My sister and I stayed up til 3 or 4 in the morning the other day talking about all those great books that we read when we were kids and how they continued to leave a lasting mark on us. What strikes me about Jacob Have I Loved and others in that vein is that I have strong loyalty to these books. More than any teacher or parent or family friend, these authors were the first to speak to me at an emotionally honest level, to tell me that parents will die, mistakes will be made, and that I bear a responsibility in my actions.

AshMas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @GordonGartrell: Good to know because I remember seething when I saw all those bizarre special effects and dwarves and shit.

And since we're putting in requests for the next book, how about The Trumpet of the Swan - I think I read it when I was way too young because I remember thinking that all animals could learn how to read, if given the right circumstances.

solaana

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @clarita: OMG!!! so true. i have to remember that living in dc; subconsciously it must have affected me too. my 6th grade yearbook states that i wanted to be a nurse midwife, could only have gotten the idea from here.

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> man take me RIGHT BACK to being the unpretty sister!!! i was even born on the eastern shore, i related so fucking much. SOB!

J.D.Regent

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> O.M.G. I may have moved to DC because of these books and the Homecoming series (can we do those next? please?)

This may be my most ever re-read book.. I so wanted to be a nurse-midwife in Virginia for, like, 10 years because of this (shame about the D in science.) I just know deep down in my soul that me and Louise would be BFF. And Call is a cad.

clarita

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I'm the oldest, and growing up, it seemed that children's books almost always featured the youngest as the main character, and the older siblings as antagonists. I guess that's supposed to be empowering for little kids, but when you're a little kid AND the oldest sibling, it's not so great. Not only are you off by yourself while Mom dotes on the "baby," but the books you read to entertain yourself tell you that you're bossy and mean. Good times.

I was so excited when I found this book (even if, being twins, the sisters aren't that far apart in age!). One of those classic angsty "someone understands me" preteen moments.

And like Louise, I'm hopefully more mature now, though it still feels crappy when my mom stops a conversation with me to attend to my 19-year-old sister's "the store doesn't have the color cellphone I want!!!" drama.

SVreader

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Wow, talk about memories. . . . This book was the first book that I had such a visceral reaction to: I completely sympathized with Louise and even now, I can remember the rage that came over me as I read about how she was treated versus Caroline.

So my relationship to the book is a little different from most of the posters here: I read it once in 5th grade and after that, I couldn't even look at the cover without getting angry.

As for the next book, "Johnny Tremain" anyone?

harriet-the-spy

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I love this book so much. I reread it like once a year, and it means more to me every time. In a family of 3 girls (I'm in the middle) I also struggled with recognition and this book is brilliant on how personal pain can cause you to build up walls, and cause your own further isolation. My younger sister was blonde and charming, and often claimed my friends for her own, so this book seemed especially realistic to me.

cry cry cry

love it!

mynameisrio

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> LOVED this book, there's a scene where she smashes a bottle of jergen's lotion against a wall, and I've never forgotten that.

I was a little sister, but had the luck to be prettier than my big sister, and we were never into the same things, so we didn't have much of a competition, but boy did I feel awful for that girl.
___

The great Gilly Hopkins was like walking into a carnival for me, I'd never heard of foster kids or cursing kids or mothers that abandoned their kids, I think I read half of that book with my mouth wide open in shock.

meg9

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @filthygorgeous: I initially boycotted the recent version of Bridge to Terabithia, as well because the advertising made it look like they really changed the book, but then I ended up renting it. It was actually really well done, and the screenplay was written by Katherine Paterson's son. I have never cried so much during a movie in my life. My husband was sleeping next to me and I actually woke him up with my sobs, and he thought something horrible happened. Then he rolled over and went back to bed, and I kept on crying over Jess and Leslie.

GordonGartrell

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @iowagrl: I had never heard "I Wonder as I Wander" when I read this book, and didn't hear it for the first time until a few years later. So somehow I turned it into "O Holy Night" in my head and can't hear *that* song without thinking of this book, which is kind of weird.

cellochick

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @thefiftyfourth: "The shoe books. Dancing Shoes, Ballet Shoes, Skating Shoes. She should start with Ballet Shoes. Or Theater Shoes. That's my favorite. But it's out of print."

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @yanee:

I read (and actually liked) Ballet Shoes. Noel Streatfield wrote a lot of books about shoes.

thefiftyfourth

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @eeva: I've read a few short stories, but I should probably look at picking up a collection. I LOVED Boy, I remember the part about having his adnoids (sic) removed so well and I have NO memory.

@TeenageGangDeb: And just to be fair, Roald Dahl wrote many books aimed at children, young adults, and adults.

stacyinbean is a proud East Coast Librul Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> can you do Bridge to Terabithia next? I loved that book as a kid, but I refuse to ever see the recent movie. That really old one that was made for like 5 bucks tho... that's a classic.

filthygorgeous

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @yanee:
That's...to get SHOES specially made

Yanee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Westing Game also gets my vote for next week. Or, The Pinballs? Or, The Wizard Children of Finn...

Chryss

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I still think of this book at least once a month and make a vow to always cradle a child my arms while putting another in the oven.

Cry4Hemp

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Dearest jezebelles
long time reader, 1st time contributor
re the fine lines column, i don't know how you found my childhood bookcase, but can I please get it back when you're done?

much love
anti em

antiem

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh God, does anyone remember the part when Louise and Cal and the Captain are trying to figure out what to do with the cats, and then Caroline jumps in and gives them away to people because people can't say no to her, and afterwards they're all sitting around and laughing about it and Louise realises that Caroline has "stolen" her friends from her? That part made me dissolve into a puddle of tears every single time. Wah.

Ever since this book, I have never been able to look at hands without wondering how they reflect their owners personality.

thefiftyfourth

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh I loved this book! I hardly remember the plot, but I was just thinking the other day about when Cal has to trace his feet on a piece of paper to get them specially made for his fat feet cause he would run around with the laces undone.

Did anyone else ever read Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples? That was probably my favorite childhood book. Also, Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield. I KNOW some people read that. I think the same person actually gave me both of those books and I read them both to death.

Yanee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I LOVE this feature. Love. I can't wait for next week. And this book made me so damn glad I didn't have a sister.

Hiro

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> HAHA YES! Now I can stop begging for this review! <3

JessicaLovejoy is voting for Kodos

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @TeenageGangDeb: lol, thanks for keeping us informed, YA Book Gestapo.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Just dropping again to be pedantic/annoying and point out that Roald Dahl, E.B. White, Madeline L'Engle, "The Phantom Tollbooth" etc -- while great -- are not *technically* YA novels because they are aimed more at children than teens & adolescents.

Sorry to kill all the boners in this thread. :/

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I was not ready for Bridge to Terabithia. It still hurts inside.

janna

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @badmutha: Stormy, Misty's Foal. Misty of Chincoteague is the first book I remember checking out from the library; it was one of my mother's favorite books as well.

@stacyinbean: Matilda is the greatest.

meaverly

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I loved this book so much. I was an only child but dramatic and loved to read books like this and just weep because I felt like no one really understood me. Apparently 90% of my friends were doing the same thing at the time, funny how that all works out.
I thought the ending was wonderful because I knew from the beginning on that Louise was much more then her sister could ever be.

99centbar

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh man, I read this book in my grandparents basement the summer before sixth grade, the week after I read Island of the Blue Dolphins. They had this bookshelf with ALL of the books you've been reviewing. I had just moved to a new states and these books were my best friends. I had such a resentment towards Caroline, I burned with fury towards her. Must reread.

littledarling

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @FreudianSlip: OMG, Summer of my German Soldier...talk about dredging up the memories. He had the face God would choose, or something like that.

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I especially loved the part where that guy falls off the building and they shoot him.

Oh, sorry, that was Die Hard.

bobmac31

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AuntieMame: dude, YES.

poptimist

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @stacyinbean: Have you read his short stories for adults? They are brilliant and gruesome and full of perfect irony. When I was a kid I loved his autobiographical books as well - Boy and Going Solo, so great.

Eeva

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> This is my all-time favorite book from childhood! I had the VHS of the Hallmark movie as well, which was way too kind to Caroline.

kikidrunkst

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @recidivicious: @stacyinbean: I agree with the fact that he had contempt for shallowness, arrogance, etc. as a whole, be they manifested in children or adults, but I always felt like he put unattainable standards on kids. Maybe it's good that he tried to breed modesty and kindness through his writing, but re-reading him reminds me of the guilt Catholicism has instilled in me.

Besides, "The Twits"? Sofaking gross.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I think I'm the only person in the world who didn't read Jacob I Have Loved. I spent most of my elementary school years either reading trash like The Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley or non-fiction (okay, I have to admit that I also read every single Little House book. I liked them more than Anne of Green Gables (do I need to hand back my Canadian card??))

PetiteGal

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @LadySkittlehattington: jinx!

FashionShowAtLunch

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AfternoonAttendee: OMG I love that book so fucking much. I have to go read it again right now. Thank you!

FashionShowAtLunch

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AfternoonAttendee: I love the Westing Game. I have to read it at least once a year.

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I still read this book. My copy is so old and mangled that the cover fell off. But I don't care. It's like a security blanket.

SusieDerkins

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: He kind of hated on adults too though, like in James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda. Maybe he was just an angry dude! Either way, Matilda has been my favorite book since age 10 and that is never gonna change!

stacyinbean is a proud East Coast Librul Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was more of an indictment of bad parenting than anything else, I always thought.

recidivicious

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> How bout The Westing Game?

AfternoonAttendee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> This was nothing short of adorable. The crying!

SBJ

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I didn't remember this book until I got to the part about the baby turning blue! Holy crap where do you dig these up, the corner of my parents' basement? Can I place a vote for "Summer of my German Solider" next?

FreudianSlip

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> That's "Blackbird Pond." Maybe you were all out learning how to spell....

FattyCatty

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh shit. I just realized this book has informed just about everything I've written/created since high school. The song-lyrics writing episode was so wonderful and teenage. Remember how Cal bit his nails to the quick? So many things from this book have stuck with me, it's a little unnerving.

midoriland

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I was waiting for y'all to do this book. I have a copy of this and Bridge to Terabithia signed by KP and yeah - they're the 2nd and 3rd things I'd run for if my apartment ever caught on fire (number 1 is my teddy bear and I have no shame about that). I haven't read them in a long time because I always get so damn angry reading both of them (because it's all not fair!) but they're still the books that got me reading as much as I do now, which is a lot.

In other news, doesn't Crisfield come up in Dicey's Song and those attendant books? I swear it does. I love the Chesapeake Bay area, and any (YA) books that are set there.

solaana

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Jacob Have I Loved, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Witch of Balckbird Pond....Where were you all when I was an awkward bookish girl and the only person I knew reading (and crying over) these books?

I LOVED this book...I read it a million times when my beautiful sister was becoming more beautiful and I was entering my "awkward phase." Sigh.

FattyCatty

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> This was the defining book of my adolescence. I was not a twin, but always felt inferior to my beautiful and talented cousin who -- wait for it -- is now actually an opera singer. AND I also had a weird crush on an old guy!

The ending of this book is indescribably beautiful. "I wonder as I wander, out under the sky..."

Also, @PhoneticLorin: I cannot believe you mentioned "Till We Have Faces." That is my favorite book and without question the best fiction Lewis ever wrote.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @stacyinbean: You know, those books didn't even come to mind, but now that you mention it...I was thinking back to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. If you were a humble child grateful for all the adults in your life, you would be saved, but if not...god have mercy on your soul.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I have never posted on Jezebel before, even though I read it everyday, but this column inspired me. (I am a library dork!) JHIL is one of my favorite books from childhood.

moolala

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I didn't like this book... I read it too young, and my name is Caroline. Why is there so much hate for Carolines - seriously, no good fictional characters are named Caroline (Caroline Bingley!!) she was the worst Queen of England, and apparently the name is also the meaning of the word Bitch, according to Outkast. :(

distractedbyshinyobjects

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @whatever: They already did Island of the Blue Dolphins, which I thought I read and realized I hadn't--I'd just seen the cover about a billion times.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> you should do number the stars next week.

nikaoh

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @whatever: Lovelove The Phantom Tollbooth. and A Wrinkle in Time.

cmg

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @whatever: I loved "A Wrinkle in Time" and remember being creeped the fuck out by "The Phantom Tollbooth" to the point where I won't read it now as an adult.

Also, mad love for Marguerite Henry. I read all those books and learned to draw horses because of her.

Sigh...I think I need to go to the library. Three trips in three days.

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I had this book with this exact same cover. I just went into a time warp.

FashionShowAtLunch

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: Interesting. I re-read Matilda a few years back and I still loved it, but I haven't gotten into the other stuff. My lil' bro has my collection of his books so I'll have to grab the BFG and The Twits. I guess I can see what you're saying though, the BFG eats kids and uses them as Q-Tips, the Witches want to eat them, and a LOT of his kiddy characters had some seriously nasty parents/relatives... Interesting...

stacyinbean is a proud East Coast Librul Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I never read this one, but I have to say I fucking love the way you write these features. It's exactly the way we all talk about our best-loved books, except it's actually intelligible. Love it!

(Paula Danziger next please please!)

Eeva

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Yay. I love this book. I so identified with it. I bet my Mother knew when she gave it to me..

foofer

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh Misty, and the Witch of Blackbird Pond" would be great, but I'd prefer a book whose review won't dredge up old memories that make me sob at my desk IN FRONT OF MY CO-WORKERS when I read it--so can we take on "The Phantom Tollbooth" or "A Wrinkle in Time" maybe? And, for chrissakes, definitely NOT "Julie and the Wolves" or "Island of the Blue Dolphins," okay?

whatever

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> ugh god i'm tearing up thinking about this book

allyzay

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> OMG!! All time favorite book! I used to perform a scene from this in high school. Still makes me bawl my eyes out.

ExtensionOfBob

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @recidivicious: She was better.

The last test of the girl who supported her family and had to endure being misunderstood, left out, overlooked, was a big, non-nonsense heart in spite of it.

Caroline the singer....Sarah Louise the doctor-savior in a small mountain town.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> In middle school my name was on every space on the library card in this book.

Troublejones

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> This was one of those books that I re-read every couple of years (and I'm in my mid-freaking-30s)... because it breaks my heart in the most perfect way.

I can't hear or sing the "I wonder as I wander" Christmas hymn without thinking of that ending. It's soul shattering in the way that best writers can do (and I don't think I'll ever really forgive Call for not choosing Louise ... sorry)

iowagrl

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: Hahaha totally remember breasts the size as apples. I was 13 or 14 and all like, APPLES? Um, maybe, apricots?

And who was the writer that did those amazing medieval books about Jackaroo? Cynthia..Rylant?

the.bleach

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @stacyinbean: I've got a total hard-on for this post...anyways, I am NOT kidding, I've read at least half a dozen of his books, and when I was a kid I enjoyed them, but trying to reread them as an adult, I hate the way he wrote. There are certain scenes, but my overall contention is that, well, he kinda hated kids, at least this is what I deduce from his writing.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I remember when I was a young'un I never could get why everyone thought Caroline was so great. She was irritatingly girly, whereas Louise was tomboyish and awesome. And I thought the best friend was the biggest idiot of all of them for totally not figuring that out. I think perhaps I didn't learn whatever lesson was supposed to actually be there, because I still think Louise > Caroline.

recidivicious

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> oh my god THANK YOU for reminding me about this book, i loved it so much and cried so much when i read it in my teens. yeeeaaargh!!!!

fluxuspoo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: What about Weetzie Bat?

the.bleach

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I didn't realize this book and "Bridge to Terabithia" were by the same author. BtT made me weep like a baby. This one didn't stick with me as much, but I still think "Wee paws" whenever I hear that on the radio.

@AuntieMame: That book immediately came to mind when I saw this title, because that I re-read once a week. But, y'know, I'm from Wethersfield, Conn. and my family were Puritans, so perhaps I project?

@Kaitydid: God's Thumbs, I loved that book!

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @Kaitydid: Almost ;). That poor bear that she saved, the imagery throughout the whole book(especially her bedroom), her pets...and he soft feminism of a girl who refused to marry a filthy old man to please her asshole of a father.

Man. Nostalgia :)

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Haven't even read it yet, but YESSS!!! FINALLY!!!!

TiffisBetter

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @Kaitydid: Yes! Corpus bones!!!

Lady Skittlehattington

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> "oh, Louise, we will miss you, your father and I."

I wanted so much to believe her. "Will you really?" I asked. "As much as you miss Caroline?"

"More," she said, reaching up and ever so lightly smoothing her hair with her fingertips."

I did not press her to explain. I was too grateful for that one word thatallowed me at last to leave the island and begin to build myself as a soul, separate from the long, long shadow of my twin. (pp. 227-228)"

This book was enraging and frustrating and heart-breaking and moving five times over, from the Grandmother to "Wheeze's" desire to have "been born a boy" to that scene at the start where the class laughs at her for wanting to cancel Christmas b/c of Pearl Harbor..."Why hadn't Mr. Rice explained?"

Incredible.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AndSheWas: Oh please tell me you're kidding! Roald Dahl is the best!!!

stacyinbean is a proud East Coast Librul Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I'd totally forgotten about this book! I love this feature. It's a nice way to end what has otherwise been a pretty shitty week.

DorothyZbornak

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> at risk of being lynched by a mob of sobbing Jezzies - when I read the book back in middle school; i didn't much like it. *cringes and waits for bombardment*

cmg

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @Kaitydid: I LOVED that book, in like, 6th grade I won a contest for reading the most books and that was my prize. I still have it.

I bought 50 YA books on ebay last week, and 45 today. A lot of them were crap, but it was so cheap and I got about 20 really good ones out of it.

AlisonAshleigh

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @BlueJeans: I read both "Misty" and "Stormy". One of them was the offspring of the other, but I don't remember which is which.

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @Kaitydid: I remember that her breasts were the size of apples. Is that weird? There was another book by the same author, "The Midwife's Apprentice" I think.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @BlueJeans: Homecoming! I LOVED that book. The whole series about those kids was great, actually.

tell Dolly Parton again

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> you should do "Catherine, Called Birdie" next. Does anyone else still have a ridiculous attachment to that book like i do?

all i can remember is the talk about "rushes" all the time.

Kaitydid

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AuntieMame:
I love that book! Ooh! Also, Thornyhold plz!

AussieOsborn

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @PhoneticLorin: @AuntieMame: Til we have faces! The witch of Blackbird pond! I LOVED those books. Never read this one, but it sounds interesting. Oddly, I knew a set of twins named Caroline & Louise. Both were drop dead gorgeous.

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I was always worried she'd pole out too far on the skiff...

Also, I loved this book, but I had to read it so many times for various public school English classes (it being part of the "Regional Writes!" section of our reading curriculum, along with "Misty of Chincoteague" and "Homecoming" etc.), I almost started to hate it. Thanks for reminding me that it's actually awesome.

BlueJeans

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AuntieMame: I love that book!

Hamsterpants

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Loved this book so much! It's also the sole reason I can answer the "Jacob's twin" clue in the crossword.

argylesockmonkey

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @TeenageGangDeb: That broke my heart. Damn Call.

That and the way he told Capt. Wallace that they would BOTH repair his house...for FREE....when the girl was already helping to support her family in her free time.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh my gosh, I love this book so! For some reason, I always thought it took place on an island off the coast of Maine. Projecting much?

lacey in ak

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @AuntieMame: I'm in the mood for some Cynthia Rylant, E.B. White or the book "The Real Me." But that gross Roald Dahl - no thanks.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> And, "Oh my blessed." This book makes we want to say "Oh my blessed" a lot.

MsDirector

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Good lord I loved this book when I was at an age when I wanted to cry all the time and felt horribly awkward.

funnyface

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> @tellmeagain: Got great reviews,I remember....Thats on my list of "must see/rent,sooner than later"

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I also like it when she puts the baby in the oven and then winds up marrying her father.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> And remember at the end, when it turns out that she, too has a good voice?!

Add me to the list of those inexorably drawn to men's hands because of this book.

sheistolerable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> loveddddddd this book! such a great story, I think I might go for the re-read.

stacyinbean is a proud East Coast Librul Elitist

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> OMG THIS BOOK TOTALLY RULES! The version I grew up with actually accentuated Louise's supposed homeliness in comparison to Caroline's beauty. TROOFS.

Actually, the part that made me saddest was the part where Cal comes back from military service all grown up and not-awkward looking anymore and tells Louise he's going to propose (did he propose? I think he proposed) to Caroline instead. TRAITOR! BETRAYAL!

The Great Gilly Hopkins is another one of my Paterson faves. Breaks my heart every time I read the ending of that one.

TeenageGangDeb

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I was waiting for you to cover this one.

This book changed was like learning to read for the first time,all over again...not just to decipher words,but ENJOY them and seek meaning for the first time.

marie123

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Did y'all see the Bridge to Terabithia movie? It was actually good! I was physiologically incapable of crying at a book as a kid, but as an adult I've finally come to my senses and that movie... oh boy.

Never read this one, though. Guess it's time!

tell Dolly Parton again

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Oh my God I love this book so much. So much. And I always want to tell people the "Wee paws for station identification" joke, because it's just that stuck in my brain, but I always know it'll land with a thud so I don't. Sigh.

Ironically, I think my little sister stole my copy of this book. Not that she's anything like Caroline, except for being a better singer than me.

MsDirector

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I loved this too! I love Fine Lines. I had completely forgotten about this book.

Brianne

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Here's a scene I remember: When she started her period and bled on her church dress, and her grandmother wanted to know why she wasn't going to church. Jeez, never have I wanted to punch a fictional old lady in the face so badly.

AndSheWas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Man, I am too impatient and always think things don't post and so I re-weite em then look again, and voila! Posted twice. Ugh. Sorry.

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I LOVE this book. I cannot tell you how many times I've read it. Now I'm going to have to track it down on Half or something.

summerwheatley

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Can the next book be 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond' by Elizabeth George Speare? Please?

AuntieMame

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> I haven't read this one! But let me tell YOU miz Lizzie, this was an awesome recap and now I'm going to.

lisas

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Waaaaaaaaah

katastic

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> OH MY GOSH I read this book in like 4th grade and it melted my little grey sheep 2nd-rate sister heart. Like CS Lewis's Till We Have Faces, only less abstract/allegorical. Ach tu lieber!

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> OMG LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK!

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Katherine Patterson rocks the casbah. I had to re-read some of her books in a graduate school class on elementary school lit, and I was in h-e-a-v-e-n.

TaraIncognita

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> OH HOLY CRAP I read this book in like 4th grade and am the non-perfect grey sheep daughter. Such a good, sad, relatable story, and the only book other than CS Lewis's Till We Have Faces to make me melt. Ach tu lieber.

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Yay! I love this book. When I was in the hospital last year, I snuck over to Pediatrics and borrowed this book and Bridge to Terabithia and read them. Just as good now as when I was a kid.

Scoregasm

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> Yes! This was one of my faves in middle school, and I developed an obsession with hands because of this book.

tiffcat

]]> <![CDATA[<i>Jacob Have I Loved</i>: Oh, Who Am I Kidding, I Reread This Book Once a Week]]> KATHERINE PATERSON!!!! LOOOOOVE HER!

Lady Skittlehattington

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