Wait a second. I read and loved Long Live the Queen, but how did I not know there were two other books before that? Man, I suck. And I love you more than ever for letting me know. Pardon me while I go see if they're still in print.
--Stacey
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You know, as I read your entry today, I keep flashing onto a book I read
when I was in middle school/junior high...and I'm thinking it may have been
Friends for Life. Do you remember a freaky/scary looking cover...a phone
booth and a terrified girl for the cover art. And didn't she get a phone
call from her friend right before her friend died? And when she was
investigating the boys, weren't they in an attic-like room and the drugs
were brought out and there was some implied she almost got raped stuff? And
wasn't Beacon Hill featured?
If I am smoking a huge rock of crack, ignore me. If not, sweet Jesus, you
are of my people and I have more Eliza love than ever! No ONE ever knows
what the HELL I'm talking about when I mention this book!
--Michelle
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I LOVE Ellen Emerson White!!! ...
The trilogy about the White House was my favorite next
to Life Without Friends. The only ones I have not
read are the biography ones - have you read those?
--Elissa
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I read the President's Daughter! Summer of 1988, on the floor of the
Boston Public Library children's room, because I was being all big and
independent and not in the small town but did I get good jobs in the
big city? I did not, but spent my days in the air-conditioned library
reading that and SO MANY Sweet Valley High because I have NO PRIDE.
--Lisa
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Hi! I am a longtime lurker on your journal, and I just had to de-lurk for a minute to thank you profusely for writing about Ellen Emerson White, and
the President Daughter books. I loved those as well, but couldn't remember who they were written by. Now, though, I can go find them and re-read them in
all their new-fangled cover glory. (Agreed, the old covers were far less disturbing!) Anyway, thanks again!
--Melissa
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My copy of The President's Daughter has no glue left in the binding and
all the pages are falling out so I had to buy a new copy, but thank god it
was used and has the right covers. You know I met her once when I was in
high school? And she was very nice to me and she talked to me about
writing and she said the President used words she (EEW) didn't know. Also
she said she was going to write another book in the series and Meg was
going to date a Republican. Did it not work out? Was she joking? I will
never know.
--Jessie
My response to Jessie:
I cannot believe that you met her. This is astounding! EEW fans are coming out of the goddamn woodwork today!
Jessie's response to me:
GOOD, they SHOULD be! My friend Three Fish is a huge fan too and actually that is why my cast list is called The Cast of Thousands, after what Meg called the White House staff. God now I want to read that book again. Except I cannot, I have HOMEWORK. And she lived in Boston! She went to the Chestnut Hill Mall! It made me nostalgic even when I was still living right here.
So, no, Ms. White, your readers are not just, as you joked, your relatives who are reading your books out of guilt! Lots of us really love them, in case you have not noticed by my drooling, panting, and supplication, and we eagerly await your new creation. (Jessie, especially, will be relieved to find out one way or another whether or not Meg starts to date a Republican.)
