false 24178 0064410935 9780064410939 44280 1927 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167520504m/24178.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24178.Charlotte_s_Web 988142 E.B. White 72003 4187 0 2 false Sun Oct 25 17:24:42 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 17:35:32 -0700 2009 The Little Match Girl over and over, and I would weep giant crocodile tears of pain and empathy at the girl's frozen body, the grandmother and the candles, the matches all struck and burnt down to a flash of pain and then the letting go...

Charlotte is something of this for me, but it's worse, her little spider body grown stiff and brittle and almost silly. I don't know why I think about the corpses these ladies leave, but there's something incredibly sad about how Charlotte diminishes from this great spinning speaking voice into a dead bug. Sad, so so sad.

I'm reading this to the boy, and I'm not sharing. No sadness for you Richard, I get to do this to the kids on my own. ]]>