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I just finished A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and how wonderful it was! I am still reelling from how much I enjoyed it. So much was I enraptured by it that I simply finished it in practically one sitting! Which I don't usually do being a restless sort of girl who typically reads in intervals and then returns later.
I was very much suprised because previously I had only seen a movie based on it, I believe it was one with Sherley Temple as Sara, but I may be mistaken, and that did so splendid a book no justice!
I would highly recommend this book, as besides being short it is also pleasant and possessing, or at least it was for me. It was easy to get into and I enjoyed it immensely, although I am sure that is obvious by this point.
I have seen something absolutely lovely! I so want to have it, but I am held back by concern that it may be a foolish fancy and for fear that I may be teased. You see, as I have been reading many classic books, I have heard a many a phrase in reference to a pocket watch and wish #4 on my latest journal post was half devoted to the desire to myself possess one. I have found, through half-hearted searches online, something I find to be quite stupendous.
It is a handsome silver Devonshire Quartz pocket watch! http://www.guntherwatch.com/dequpowa.html#product-info
It comes with a free engraving so I could get my name put on it in pretty cursive and oh how I would enjoy polishing it in a nice handkerchief!
It is on sale for $50, usually $80 and my birthday is approaching very soon so I was thinking I might ask for it. (Although I had presently allotted that money for another cause, I could always postpone that for a later time). I am concerned though with whether or not it is... correct for a female to have a pocket watch and would desperately like to hear what others of you think. I do so love it, but I don't want to be embarrassed to use it. Especially not after paying that much for it. :(
I just finished A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and how wonderful it was! I am still reelling from how much I enjoyed it. So much was I enraptured by it that I simply finished it in practically one sitting! Which I don't usually do being a restless sort of girl who typically reads in intervals and then returns later.
I was very much suprised because previously I had only seen a movie based on it, I believe it was one with Sherley Temple as Sara, but I may be mistaken, and that did so splendid a book no justice!
I would highly recommend this book, as besides being short it is also pleasant and possessing, or at least it was for me. It was easy to get into and I enjoyed it immensely, although I am sure that is obvious by this point.
I have seen something absolutely lovely! I so want to have it, but I am held back by concern that it may be a foolish fancy and for fear that I may be teased. You see, as I have been reading many classic books, I have heard a many a phrase in reference to a pocket watch and wish #4 on my latest journal post was half devoted to the desire to myself possess one. I have found, through half-hearted searches online, something I find to be quite stupendous.
It is a handsome silver Devonshire Quartz pocket watch! http://www.guntherwatch.com/dequpowa.html#product-info
It comes with a free engraving so I could get my name put on it in pretty cursive and oh how I would enjoy polishing it in a nice handkerchief!
It is on sale for $50, usually $80 and my birthday is approaching very soon so I was thinking I might ask for it. (Although I had presently allotted that money for another cause, I could always postpone that for a later time). I am concerned though with whether or not it is... correct for a female to have a pocket watch and would desperately like to hear what others of you think. I do so love it, but I don't want to be embarrassed to use it. Especially not after paying that much for it. :(
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- 9 Mar 2023, 23:05Hope you enjoy it!
- 9 Mar 2023, 17:48Thanks for sharing! I added this to my Reading List.
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- 24 Nov 2022, 05:06Hope you enjoy it!
- 24 Nov 2022, 00:10Love the title. I am going to see if my library has this book.
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that watch is nice! i don't know that it's common for women to have/have had pocket watches, but i think you would be fine to have one:) i don't know where you live, and maybe social norms are a little stricter there (i'm in Canada), but i think most people i know would either think it was really neat, or be indifferent to it:P you could take a couple of days and think about if you really want it (or if it's jsut an impulse), but i don't think you should be embarrassed by having one, just coz you're a girl:)
Also, you could check out antique or second-hand stores before you buy this. I bet you could find a neat pocket watch there for less money:) Albeit, probably not engraved....
Haha yes, that is pretty fitting! I am very excited about this book, although I just finished it and am still feeling what I like to call the "afterglow" of a good book.
The film version with Shirley Temple is nice, but it definitely doesn't do the story justice.
And you should absolutely get a pocket watch if you want one. Actually, I'd love one, too, and I'm also a girl, so you're not alone in that *g*
wouldn't it be heaps of fun to go on a train ride with such a collection? One of the things I really want to do at some point is go on an old fashioned kind of train with separate carts (such as for sleeping, eating, and socializing). Crouched on a seat reading such books as these, I would feel like someone straight out of a classic! I believe it would be great fun :)
I have always admire pocket watches and it seems many women want one, which makes me happy because I feel I have not such strange taste after all!
Do get one!
Would it be too forward to ask for a picture? If not of you with the watch, just the watch itself? I am so interested in them, you see. I would love to have a real gold or silver watch, but for me too, it is much too expensive.
And I say buy it! The one oyu linked to looks very nice.
Burnett has such a lovely style of writing, I only wish she had written more books. The only ones I am familar with are "The Secret Garden," "A Little Princess," and "Little Lord Fontleroy."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090474/
I recently acquired a Warner Brothers release while pillaging one of my favorite thrift stores, I have yet to watch it, but I am hoping it will be good or at least better than the Sherley Temple version which, unfortunately, changed the story a good deal.
Also, I would be wearing a pocketwatch if I hadn't misplaced mine. (Argh. This happens with all my jewelry and things. I'll wear them for a while, then forget about them completely, until someone brings it up.)
One thing that made me sad was that her father died... he seemed like such a wonderful man, and I am a sucker for fathers and male characters like that.