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]]> By: JLB http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-436 JLB Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:36:21 +0000 http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-436 Say, I know this is an old post, but I thought of you when I found this today, so I thought I'd share: The Westing Game Manuscript http://abebooks.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/the-westing-game-manuscript/ Good luck with the NaNoWriMo! Say, I know this is an old post, but I thought of you when I found this today, so I thought I’d share:

The Westing Game Manuscript
http://abebooks.wordpress.com/2006/11/15/the-westing-game-manuscript/

Good luck with the NaNoWriMo!

]]> By: cat http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-283 cat Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:15:05 +0000 http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-283 Have never read The Westing Game, but it's going on "The List" asap! Have never read The Westing Game, but it’s going on “The List” asap!

]]> By: strugglingwriter http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-270 strugglingwriter Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:09:17 +0000 http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-270 JLB, I started A Wrinkle in Time recently and would like to get back to it. I enjoyed what I read so far. Tess, thanks for the comment. I'm glad to find another "The Westing Game" fan. Helen, the R.I.F. program was definitely a good idea. I hope they still participate at my school. That is great you Mom bought you all those books and went to the library for you. I look forward to reading your post about your favorite book. JLB, I started A Wrinkle in Time recently and would like to get back to it. I enjoyed what I read so far.

Tess, thanks for the comment. I’m glad to find another “The Westing Game” fan.

Helen, the R.I.F. program was definitely a good idea. I hope they still participate at my school. That is great you Mom bought you all those books and went to the library for you.

I look forward to reading your post about your favorite book.

]]> By: Helen http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-269 Helen Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:20:00 +0000 http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-269 I loved your school's idea for giving out free books. If only my school had done that! But I was lucky because my mum was my own personal R.I.F. programme. We lived in a remote area and every few weeks she would drive 1 hour to the town, change my library books and my brother's, then go to the charity shops and buy us a pile of secondhand books. When I came home from school there would be a pile of books on the table. I felt as if I'd stepped into heaven. Funnily enough, a book that had a big impact on me just after I began secondary school, was a prescribed class book: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien. I think I'm even going to write a blog post about that book. It inspired me so much. Other favourite books were A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden. I haven't read The Westing Game but I'm going to look for it in the library. My hair stood on end when I read the plot description. I loved your school’s idea for giving out free books. If only my school had done that! But I was lucky because my mum was my own personal R.I.F. programme. We lived in a remote area and every few weeks she would drive 1 hour to the town, change my library books and my brother’s, then go to the charity shops and buy us a pile of secondhand books. When I came home from school there would be a pile of books on the table. I felt as if I’d stepped into heaven.

Funnily enough, a book that had a big impact on me just after I began secondary school, was a prescribed class book: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien. I think I’m even going to write a blog post about that book. It inspired me so much. Other favourite books were A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden.

I haven’t read The Westing Game but I’m going to look for it in the library. My hair stood on end when I read the plot description.

]]> By: Tess Grey http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-267 Tess Grey Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:34:10 +0000 http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-267 I loved, loved, *loved* "The Westing Game" as a kid...the ending made me cry, and I don't cry very easily. Also adored "The Phantom Tollbooth," a novel by Clare Bell called "Ratha's Creature," "The Island of the Blue Dolphins" books, "The River" and others by Gary Paulsen, and countless more. Found your blog randomly via a tag feed and just had to comment, as "The Westing Game" isn't a book I see talked about very often. Thanks for bringing back the memory! Tess I loved, loved, *loved* “The Westing Game” as a kid…the ending made me cry, and I don’t cry very easily. Also adored “The Phantom Tollbooth,” a novel by Clare Bell called “Ratha’s Creature,” “The Island of the Blue Dolphins” books, “The River” and others by Gary Paulsen, and countless more.

Found your blog randomly via a tag feed and just had to comment, as “The Westing Game” isn’t a book I see talked about very often.

Thanks for bringing back the memory!

Tess

]]> By: JLB http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-266 JLB Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:35:31 +0000 http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/the-westing-game-and-books-we-loved-as-kids/#comment-266 It's funny - I remember reading The Westing Game, but I was disappointed by the ending. Perhaps I should give it another read. :) What's even more interesting is that I remember a lot of the plot points, which means that it must have been well-written. It's hard to remember just all my favorite books as a kid, but among the tops would be The Secret Garden, The Phantom Tollbooth, anything by Dahl, and A Wrinkle in Time. I'm sure there are others that will come to me in the middle of the night, but those are indeed some favorites! It’s funny – I remember reading The Westing Game, but I was disappointed by the ending. Perhaps I should give it another read. :) What’s even more interesting is that I remember a lot of the plot points, which means that it must have been well-written.

It’s hard to remember just all my favorite books as a kid, but among the tops would be The Secret Garden, The Phantom Tollbooth, anything by Dahl, and A Wrinkle in Time. I’m sure there are others that will come to me in the middle of the night, but those are indeed some favorites!

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