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From: Shutta Crum <shutta>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:55 -0500
LOL!)
I remember previewing the Mandie books for our library years ago when they first came out. Ouch! What I remember most about one of them was the sheer implausibility of the action. She somehow escaped UP a chimney with a rope shorter than the chimney itself. And, in another scene, she had her hands tied behind her while riding wildly on a horse that someone had spooked, with (YES!) a struggling kitten she had rescued--clutched between her chin and neck the whole while. Knowing my own cats--I wonder if she had any neck left at the end of that ride! (It cracked me up almost as much as Twain's essay on James Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses.)
Sorry--had to share that bit.
Shutta Crum Ann Arbor District Library
(Bravest of the Brave, Knopf, 2005)
Received on Tue 30 Nov 2004 04:04:55 PM CST
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:55 -0500
LOL!)
I remember previewing the Mandie books for our library years ago when they first came out. Ouch! What I remember most about one of them was the sheer implausibility of the action. She somehow escaped UP a chimney with a rope shorter than the chimney itself. And, in another scene, she had her hands tied behind her while riding wildly on a horse that someone had spooked, with (YES!) a struggling kitten she had rescued--clutched between her chin and neck the whole while. Knowing my own cats--I wonder if she had any neck left at the end of that ride! (It cracked me up almost as much as Twain's essay on James Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses.)
Sorry--had to share that bit.
Shutta Crum Ann Arbor District Library
(Bravest of the Brave, Knopf, 2005)
Received on Tue 30 Nov 2004 04:04:55 PM CST
