tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post1602056993431333755..comments2024-03-28T10:33:47.385+11:00Comments on Kate Constable's Blog: A latte beckonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967372772145537800noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-90048993698341799252017-10-18T10:52:48.222+11:002017-10-18T10:52:48.222+11:00such a glories and most determinant post said to b...such a glories and most determinant post said to be Ballet Books. thanks for aware that post.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://balletbefit.co.uk/online-fitness-course-with-balletbefit/" rel="nofollow">Online fitness courss in UK</a> | <a href="http://balletbefit.co.uk/online-fitness-course-with-balletbefit/" rel="nofollow">Ballet Business Course with Balletbefit</a><br /><br />Keyle Recehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15694062599215585518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-23148017471335426672009-11-15T18:03:11.778+11:002009-11-15T18:03:11.778+11:00I have to admit that I loved the Enid Blyton board...I have to admit that I loved the Enid Blyton boarding school books -- just had an enthusement session with my friends about them this weekend. I haven't read any of the ballet books you mention but I did read the 'Drina' books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Esther_Allan<br /><br />Drina was an orphan: the daughter of two ballet stars, no less. She kept her lineage quiet at school even though a rather annoying, less talented girl (called Queenie, I think) kept rabbiting on about how her mother was a (not very) famous dancer. I only ever read a few of them, though, and would like to read the rest.of thieveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983931586087473212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-17764267532086078842009-11-12T10:56:53.060+11:002009-11-12T10:56:53.060+11:00Doesn't ring a bell for me, it must be RG as I...Doesn't ring a bell for me, it must be RG as I think I've read every word NS ever wrote. I love the sound of it, though!A latte beckonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967372772145537800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-43454975440551032722009-11-11T21:57:52.334+11:002009-11-11T21:57:52.334+11:00Rumer Godden wrote ballet books too, Thursday’s Ch...Rumer Godden wrote ballet books too, Thursday’s Children, Listen to the Nightingale, A Candle for St. Jude. <br /><br />I loved books about serious girls who were terribly gifted but poor, or overlooked, or otherwise tragic.<br /><br />There was a ballet book I read as a child that I have never rediscovered, and I think it must be NS or RG. It is about a girl who is Discovered dancing in the street (to a polka), with requisite foreign woman who cries 'she must dance'. Her grandmother or old nurse takes her to the dancing lessons. And one of the other children falls in love with a little dog and ends up walking it for a kindly old rich man and paying for (Polly's?) lessons. I know there is a shortish scene where they all go to the seaside and 'have a bathe' and Polly dances in the sea. Any idea what it is?Penni Russonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17956453252195293843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-73339837487688682832009-11-10T13:43:31.521+11:002009-11-10T13:43:31.521+11:00Thanks, thaliak, I'll look out for that one!
...Thanks, thaliak, I'll look out for that one!<br /><br />Yes, Onions, the orphan thing is strange. Maybe it's symbolic of the utter dedication and single-mindedness necessary to make it in the world of ballet?? You really must read some Streatfeild, Onion S. Right up your alley, I venture to suggest, if you can overlook the obvious datedness of her world.A latte beckonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967372772145537800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-29015655339498122062009-11-09T15:03:38.154+11:002009-11-09T15:03:38.154+11:00Very interesting. The orphan thing is weird. Kids ...Very interesting. The orphan thing is weird. Kids don't seem to be orphaned nearly as much in contemporary fiction. One parent dead, yes, but both is more unusual, don't you think? They seem much more likely to be metaphorically absent than literally absent.<br /><br /> I don't know how I missed this genre, the Streatfeild ones in particular. I think I'll add them to my list to keep an eye out for in 2nd-hand bookstores.The Alien Onionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037127806592724297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3773539610706998068.post-3256142595251213992009-11-09T12:47:20.371+11:002009-11-09T12:47:20.371+11:00Not sure if this is a fave, but it survived the nu...Not sure if this is a fave, but it survived the numerous book culls that I've had each time I've moved house since I was a kid, so that has to count for something:<br />'Just Like Jenny' by Sandy Asher is, yeah, about jealousy:<br />'I've always wanted to be just like you, Jenny...Never scared, never worried, never sad. Perfect.'<br />It ends with: 'But whatever happens, I'm still one of the lucky ones. I'm still me - and I'm still a dancer.'<br /><br />Once a dancer, always a dancer...thaliaknoreply@blogger.com