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Date Posted: 08:32:55 01/16/08 Wed
Author: Merrymags
Subject: Jane, your obsession is my obsession! Though I believe you're more willing to search for the answers. >>>>>>>
In reply to: Jane 's message, "BTW, I just met Lisa W (and about a dozen other Northern California hosers) in person last Saturday. I've been meeting on and off with this group for 3 years now. In light of the new Broch Talk discussion above am thinking about the sisterhood we all share here, the what others might consider un-natural obsession we all have with these books. I just wanted to let others know that it is fun to meet with fellow hosers if you can and worth the time to create the opportunity for yourself." on 06:35:12 01/16/08 Wed

There is nothing that fascinates me more than what goes on here and other DG-related sites. The deep commitment of her readers, their devotion to these fictional characters, is possibly (in my mind) a subject for study. Why have these *people* become so entrenched in our souls? Why do we examine each detail, recall with vivid accuracy every nuance? I have never read another story, or series of stories, that have lodged so deeply in my bones as DG's Books. Possibly the only exception is JANE EYRE.

Jane, should we have the opportunity to meet, we will have a gabfest and fight for the right to pay the tab.

PS: If you haven't yet visited DG's blog, Voyages of the Artemis, I suggest you do. Her post today makes me think of you. :) voyagesoftheartemis.blogspot.com.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Merrymags come inside please -- Jane, 16:26:32 01/16/08 Wed

How funny you should mention Jane Eyre. I just re-read it for the first time since either high school or college (mid-late 70's) over the Christmas break. I immediately became obsessed with it and had to order every single film version of it ever made from Net Flicks. I bought a couple too, because they didn't have them. BTW.. I LOVE Diana's Blog! It is now the first thing I check every single morning today's piece on research is hysterical! If you are EVER planning to be in the SF Bay Area please let me know, we'll gather a few hosers and meet for dinner somewhere. I just know we'd get on perfectly.

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Jane, come inside>>>>>>> -- Merrymags, 07:34:22 01/17/08 Thu

This is too funny! Our clandestine conversations! I just watched the latest version of J.E. on PBS a couple Sundays ago -- the actress playing Jane had a very wide mouth (just like Bree's, I thought, but not as lovely), and the version I like best stars Ciaran Hinds as Rochester and Samantha Morton as Jane.

I, too, check DG's blog first before coming to Lallybroch. It's a less intimidating way to have contact than at Compuserve and I love how relaxed she is in that atmosphere. And so funny and thougthful.

To be honest, DG starting her blog prompted me to do the same; I've wanted to do it for a long time, just never did. I have no idea what I'm doing though, but if you read they way Blogger describes it, they call it an on-line diary. Well, combine that with having a desire to write my own book (it's when I begin that I realize I'm not smart enough, creative enough, or disciplined enough) so I though blogging would be a step in that direction. If you continue reading DG's blog, you'll come across my responses....click on my name and it should link you to my blog. But promise not to laugh or smirk at the weak attempt.

Now, I have been to the Bay area only twice in my life. It's somewhere I have always wanted to go back to. I'll definitely hook-up with you --I've never officially met another Lady of Lallybroch(er).

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Merrymags inside again last time I promise: -- Jane, 19:53:19 01/17/08 Thu

I will go right over and check you blog..how fun! I'd never be brave enough to make one of my own, even if I was technically savvy enough, but love looking at the ones created by friends and relatives. It's definitely a date..next time you get out here, we'll grab some other hosers and meet somewhere. It's always a potluck when at someone's house or "Dutch treat/pay as you go" when we meet somewhere else. There's no need to worry about being injured in a fight over the bill!

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[> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Jane, Merrymags and Jessie - what a marvelous collision of ideas going on here! I share your sense of this place as a community of women - - a sisterhood - - and I am also equally intrigued by the powerful nature of our obsession, not only with the Books that brought us here, but with talking to each other via posts and replies which, if you are like me and tend to post in hectic spurts of overly long comments, are sort of like blogging. I do think there is something going on that merits serious study -- the "hosed phenomenon" in both its guises (addiction to the novels of Diana Gabaldon and addiction to the LOL boards!). And it is fascinating to me how many of us had the same kind of intense reader response to Jane Eyre! Other than JE, and GWTW, both of which I read first at age 13, I have not had another similarly intense and overwhelming reaction to a book until I read Outlander (at age 42!). The good news is, I found you Sisters of the Book! -- pamelalass, 17:44:15 01/17/08 Thu


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