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i have moved:

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this blog is just for the emo posts

i'm all up for another long post because all that tumblr posting is tiring me and not really allowing me to write! but i'm all for short posts once in a while (probably oftener than i think) so that blog shall remain my official blog and this one is a byway and just for my rants and the really long and boring posts.

haha

well i feel like writing today about grace livingstone hill and her work because i've been reading her books (i finished 5 in two days haha, now i'm halfway through the 6th) and i kind of like most of her books save for the 5th (boredom rising, no doubt) because somehow that one did not have the same feel as the other stories that i liked. or maybe it's cos i was beginning to speed read, which does not do much for the enjoyment of books, but sure allows me to finish a lot of books in a short time. honestly ever since i began to speed read i rather lost my old fervor for reading. badbad.

i don't agree with all the stuff she comes up with (her women are strong ladies in one sense and all wishy washy in the other sense), but there is a strong wholesomeness in her stories that i like. it's old fashioned, very old fashioned...but then i'm old fashioned, and i like the idea of honor and respect and hard work and kindness and self sacrifice that are the hallmarks of her women. i don't care so much for the meekness and dependence on men that her women are also capable of (well, i refuse to be dependent on a man, and i think meekness is fine and dandy but there are times when i wish the stupid girl would stop being such a meek thing and do something!! grrr) and also after you have read a couple of her books you realize that she's rather fond of girls coming into huge inheritances, and they are all meek and humble and then they meet a man (who is as handsome as he is good) and fall in love and all that (which i am very tired of, honestly) and they all have good breeding and have connections with the aristocracy. and they are all beautiful and good. one of the stories had me wishing she expanded the character of the honorable (but unfortunately ugly) maid and enough of the pretty young self sacrificing ink and white lady of the house already.

all in all i think lucy maud montgomery a better author...but for grace livingstone hill she made up for it in strong hymns of olden times which i found remarkably good and verses all around that made me feel that i didn't know my bible very well at all! which is good, because i've been reading it a bit more since then.

and much of her women's character can be emulated...just throw away some of the wishy washy stuff and i think that would be a strong woman after God's own heart. Perhaps that was suitable of a woman at her period of time, but nowadays everything is so different.

i'm glad i found that old book and started reading it again (actually it was for the descriptions of food i remembered from 'a daily rate' which is my favorite of her stories) because compared to many books i've been seeing around, these are pretty wholesome stuff. a daily rate is also a particular favorite of mine because it was about how we should take up our crosses one day at a time, and never worry, because He will provide us a daily providence. and that is so true. let us do today what is appropriate for today, and let us not rest until the work and toil is done. but our crosses should never exceed that of today, and our burdens are light because He will be there to sustain and help us through it. (i find my writing very bad today, because i am rushing this (speed writing no good either. my grammar and sentence structure goes wonkers and i invent words when i cannot think of them) also her character in this story was far less wishy washy than all the others, and she had her weaknesses and her strengths and there was no dwelling on clothing (she loved to describe clothing leh, this grace livingstone hill) and the advice given to her by her very wise aunt was good and wise and can be emulated.

wow. i'm really quite appalled at the condition of my english. goodnite everyone, i think i'm tired.