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Favorite B-T adventure
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Sep 05, 2007 06:34PM
What was your favorite adventure in the series? Mine is when they are young and go over the hill to Little Syria.
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I notice people seem to strongly prefer either the first four books or the older books. My nieces love the chapter where the girls cut off their hair and love to sing the Everything Pudding song but when I was in college my favorite part was the Ivanhoe chapter because it happened to me frequently - that I would prep someone for a test or lend them my notes and they could get a better grade than I! I think maybe I loved Carney's House Party especially when I was in college because I had a friend at Vassar (although her experience was quite different from Carney's since she was there in the early years of coeducation - and also reported that the West Point cadets who came to dances were drunk and obscene - not much like Tom Slade!).

Betsy's trip to the Beidwinkles' is also nice...especially when she meets up with Joe at Willard's Emporium.
BETSY AND THE GREAT WORLD is a wonderful adventure from its first page to its last...I was always impressed by MHL's inclusion of the Mr. O'Farrell character. Talk about being made to grow up fast!!

And the herbariums... I just love 'nourishing cheese'...

In the high school books I love the trip to Milwaukee -- I love all of the Christmases in the high school books!



Husbands who can make contextually accurate Betsy-Tacy jokes rock.


In the younger books, I love when the girls beat up the boys who are bullying Naifi, but my favorite scene is the Milkman's horse (now know as the Extortionist.)


Are you on the Maud-L discussion list? You might enjoy it. Lots of Betsy-Tacy lovers are on it.
Jan Sasser from a little south of you in Indiana.

Sallie
in Elko NV

No, I'm not on that list. I'm going to join it immediately! Thanks for the heads up.
And Sallie, I love that part, too! When they re-create the scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin is the best!


My favorite adventure so far is the disastrous haircuts. I could see it coming but it was so funny.
I think I'm going to be in the camp of liking the first 4 books the best, but I suspect I'll enjoy the last 2 better than the high school books. When I've finished reading, I assume I'll think of all the books (including the three peripheral books) as one long story.

I was also really excited to go to Milwaukee with Betsy, and gratified to find that it lived up to her expectations. :)

I especially like the unexpectedness and growing passion of her budding relationship with Sam. I think the way MHL handled this romance reaches the reader much more deeply than contemporary, more explicit, romances do.

Oh, fun!
The pudding and especially the haircuts were my favorite parts of that book.
Books mentioned in this topic
Betsy and the Great World (other topics)Carney's House Party (other topics)
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (other topics)