tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post7776991702879051370..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: The Greengage Summer and the '60sFrisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-40377380216207200012011-02-13T23:02:24.833-08:002011-02-13T23:02:24.833-08:00Great review. During the late sixties my family u...Great review. During the late sixties my family used to rent a cottage in the Pocono mountains and the teenagers went to a drive-in movie. After watching two movies that I can't recall, they played the British film which may have had a different name. We had to leave because it was so late. Keeping in mind that this was before VHS tapes, I hunted for this movie and ended up seeing it at 10:00 a.m. about seven years later when I was at home with my daughter. I have never found it again and would love to hear that it had been made into a dvd. I subsequently read the book which became a great favorite, along with the Battle of the Villa Florita. It would be grand if someone republished Rumer Godden's books.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10805028323071590568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-898948261612570962009-11-30T15:19:56.725-08:002009-11-30T15:19:56.725-08:00Nicola, Godden did live in India for a number of y...Nicola, Godden did live in India for a number of years. She was raised there and lived there for many years as an adult: she even had a dance school there!<br /><br />She's one of my favorite writers, though few of her books are in print anymore. I even like her most famous nun book: In This House of Brede (in print by Loyola Press).Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-66386375861614587312009-11-29T12:26:18.305-08:002009-11-29T12:26:18.305-08:00Interesting that Kingsfishers Catch Fire is set in...Interesting that Kingsfishers Catch Fire is set in India. I read The Peacock Spring a couple of years ago and that is set in India, too. I don't know a lot about Godden's life but I wonder why if she had a particular affinity for India. I adored The Greengage Summer. Wasn't Joss based on Godden's own sister!Nicolahttp://vintagereads.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-46373998778214840532009-11-28T18:23:33.506-08:002009-11-28T18:23:33.506-08:00Danielle, I hope you enjoy it. I love Rumer Godde...Danielle, I hope you enjoy it. I love Rumer Godden's books. Apparently there is also a movie based on this one. I read about it in Godden's autobiography.<br /><br />Yes, people used to smoke. Now it's illegal! I'm so unused to it that when I am around a smoker my eyes water, and I never got the hang of smoking myself. Still, I have to admit I'm in favor of smoking.Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-18097557917248956862009-11-28T18:13:33.946-08:002009-11-28T18:13:33.946-08:00I have this book out to read over my break from wo...I have this book out to read over my break from work during the holidays (so have just skimmed the part of your post talking about the book). I was a tiny tot in the 60s, but I remember some of it. What a totally different world. People came over to your house and smoked as a matter of course--ash trays were just sitting on tables as a normal knickknack! Now people don't dare smoke without asking and then they may be shooed outside. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this one!Daniellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415242678720695754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-26057125581478194182009-11-27T08:12:12.390-08:002009-11-27T08:12:12.390-08:00Yes, the '60s didn't quite catch up with u...Yes, the '60s didn't quite catch up with us till the end of the decade. By then we were all enthralled with the Chicago 7, Bob Dylan, The Avengers, and Doris Lessing. Some of my friends were political and introduced me not only to Betty Friedan but Catch-22! It was as though many of us lived in an alternate/parallel '60s (the '50s kind!). <br /><br />Yes, I have enjoyed Mad Men. It's so stylized! I haven't read Bonjour Tristesse but I looked it up and it looks good. I'll put it on my list. And did I hear from somebody there's a reading list at the Mad Men website? John O' Hara, etc.Frisbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-68457041686497505612009-11-27T00:00:49.805-08:002009-11-27T00:00:49.805-08:00Really interesting about your retreat into pre-Swi...Really interesting about your retreat into pre-Swinging Sixties 1960s! (which, sociologically speaking, is really still the 1950s) because for the past months I have been similarly immersed myself. Finished my re read (read it first time as a kid) of Greengage Summer last week, too. Some parts of it--innocence loss, sexual awakening, young girl's cruelty undertones--reminds me of Bonjour Tristesse, which pretty much defined that era and the coming cultural crises, albeit in a French way. Another part of my current madness with that era comes from watching, enthralled, Mad Men. Do you like it?<br />Really, really enjoy your blog!Maia Haineshttp://www.goodreads.com/maiareadsforevernoreply@blogger.com