Molly Brown of Kentucky
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osprey_archerI got a Kindle for my birthday! Which means I finally get to read the last two Molly Brown books!
I've written about the Molly Brown stories before: they were written in the 1910s and feature the exciting adventures of Molly Brown and her multitudinous college friends, of whom my favorite is Judy Keane, a dashing young artist whose "greatest fear was to appear commonplace." And the book I'm reading now, Molly Brown of Kentucky, is all about Judy and her awesome World War I adventures!
Judy is in Giverny, studying art in the company of a short-haired female painter Jo Bill and her long-haired cubist husband Polly Perkins. (I wrote about these books in my honors project and it killed me that there wasn't more space to talk about Jo and Polly.) But then! World War I breaks out! Polly enlists! Jo decides to disguise herself as a man and become a pilot!
I was hoping Judy would also disguise herself and become a pilot, but alas after brief consideration of the prospect she decides against it. She figures that her family is in enough trouble at the moment, as her mother and father are stuck in Berlin because her father was designing a road in Turkey. (Naturally, designing a road in Turkey meant he needed to be in Germany.) The Prussian authorities are concerned that he might know military secrets so he can't leave Berlin.
I WANT JUDY TO SMUGGLE OUT MILITARY SECRETS SO BAD, YOU GUYS. And she might! At the moment, she's in Paris, where she befriended a French family that runs a delicatessen. Judy has become a sort of delicatessen apprentice, the way you do in wartime.
Meanwhile, Judy's paramour Kent is stuck in Kentucky, fretting about her endlessly. "Judy always lands on her feet, like a cat," his sister Molly points out soothingly. But Kent decides that he must sail for France. He will rescue Judy from the Hun! Except! His ship sinks! Taking most of the passengers with it, except for two who are taken prisoner on a German U-boat! Exclamation points times a thousand!
I'm not even sure being taken prisoner on a U-boat makes sense - what, did the U-boat surface just to pick them up? - but OH WELL, who cares about plausibility when there's high drama to be had!
MAYBE WHILE JUDY IS SMUGGLING MILITARY SECRETS OUT OF BERLIN SHE WILL RESCUE KENT.
I've written about the Molly Brown stories before: they were written in the 1910s and feature the exciting adventures of Molly Brown and her multitudinous college friends, of whom my favorite is Judy Keane, a dashing young artist whose "greatest fear was to appear commonplace." And the book I'm reading now, Molly Brown of Kentucky, is all about Judy and her awesome World War I adventures!
Judy is in Giverny, studying art in the company of a short-haired female painter Jo Bill and her long-haired cubist husband Polly Perkins. (I wrote about these books in my honors project and it killed me that there wasn't more space to talk about Jo and Polly.) But then! World War I breaks out! Polly enlists! Jo decides to disguise herself as a man and become a pilot!
I was hoping Judy would also disguise herself and become a pilot, but alas after brief consideration of the prospect she decides against it. She figures that her family is in enough trouble at the moment, as her mother and father are stuck in Berlin because her father was designing a road in Turkey. (Naturally, designing a road in Turkey meant he needed to be in Germany.) The Prussian authorities are concerned that he might know military secrets so he can't leave Berlin.
I WANT JUDY TO SMUGGLE OUT MILITARY SECRETS SO BAD, YOU GUYS. And she might! At the moment, she's in Paris, where she befriended a French family that runs a delicatessen. Judy has become a sort of delicatessen apprentice, the way you do in wartime.
Meanwhile, Judy's paramour Kent is stuck in Kentucky, fretting about her endlessly. "Judy always lands on her feet, like a cat," his sister Molly points out soothingly. But Kent decides that he must sail for France. He will rescue Judy from the Hun! Except! His ship sinks! Taking most of the passengers with it, except for two who are taken prisoner on a German U-boat! Exclamation points times a thousand!
I'm not even sure being taken prisoner on a U-boat makes sense - what, did the U-boat surface just to pick them up? - but OH WELL, who cares about plausibility when there's high drama to be had!
MAYBE WHILE JUDY IS SMUGGLING MILITARY SECRETS OUT OF BERLIN SHE WILL RESCUE KENT.
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Date: 2012-07-04 02:29 am (UTC)It all sounds terribly, terribly exciting :D
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Date: 2012-07-04 03:06 am (UTC)I realize that nothing is what most people do when they become prisoners. But I expect more of my book characters!
But! But! Jo Bill became an ACE PILOT, the bravest and bestest in her unit. She flies over enemy territory and maps out trenches! She dogfights with the best of them!
...I really do not know why Judy didn't get the SECRET ACE PILOT plotline. Aside from the fact that it would have required a wearying amount of research.