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There is also something deeply comforting about the cultural shorthand Spencer-Fleming uses. References to PBS, public radio–adjacent sensibilities, and a certain late-20th-century, educated-Northeast worldview made me feel instantly at home. It is clear the author lives in or very near my cultural zeitgeist, and those small, knowing touches add a layer of authenticity that is easy to underestimate and hard to fake.There is also something deeply comforting about the cultural shorthand Spencer-Fleming uses. References to PBS, public radio–adjacent sensibilities, and a certain late-20th-century, educated-Northeast worldview made me feel instantly at home. It is clear the author lives in or very near my cultural zeitgeist, and those small, knowing touches add a layer of authenticity that is easy to underestimate and hard to fake.
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That is a very good book, no matter how old you are! Michele sent me!
OK, now I don’t feel so weird about my private little addiction: after the kids fall asleep, I tuck into their book shelves and read some of their books. I was perusing our youngest’s Sandra Boynton collection last night, and what you wrote about rhythm and cadence just slammed into my brain as I read it. How right you are.
My favorite book when I was a kid was “The Monstrous Glissenglop”. I’ve never been able to find a print copy for my kids, which really sucks cuz now they’re too old for it. :)
i LOVED alexander. my favorite kid’s book is Spence Makes Circles by Christa Chevalier. it’s out of print now, unfortunately, but it was hilarious.
I never read that book but my favorite was “Black Beauty”
Oh it’s the mother again! But Miss Meliss, you had two long braids, big thick braids and you read that book to me with expression and emotion, and charm, I still see you att the kitchen table with your chin barely clearing the table reading with all of your heart.
I will still often say “I had a terrible, horrible, very bad day” And then I think of Y-O-U!
What a lovely mother&child memory from your mother!
I worked in a Boys Club walk in center on the other side of the tracks. High school kids came in to hang out and avoid home, homework and other abuses. One night I read them Alexander & The Very BD Dy
They were totally beguiled; maybe not for the same reasons as I was but they asked me to read it again and again.
I don’t know if Jenn will ever go back to read this reply, but I just found The Monstrous Glissonglop for a friend – it was his favorite book growing up too. It’s spelled with an “o,” not an “e,” and although it is out of print it isn’t too difficult to find a used copy.