I love The Mysterious Disappearance, but that's partly because it's the Raskin that I imprinted on in first grade.
The Westing Game is a very captalist book, and I found that unsettling the last time I read it.
I read Figgs and Phantoms when I was a teenager, and it didn't work for me then, I haven't had a particular desire to return to it.
I read at least part of The Tattooed Potato when I was a kid, and some of it stuck with me despite mostly going over my head, and then I read it in grad school after it came back into print, and it worked for me despite its weird imperfections. (There were a couple times as a kid that I considered buying a copy at the library book sale, and then decided not to; I wonder how I'd be different if I had.) I feel like the imagery from that book sticks with me more than the others; also there's some great dialogue, and the "I am Christina Rossetti" story.
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Date: 2024-12-20 03:25 am (UTC)The Westing Game is a very captalist book, and I found that unsettling the last time I read it.
I read Figgs and Phantoms when I was a teenager, and it didn't work for me then, I haven't had a particular desire to return to it.
I read at least part of The Tattooed Potato when I was a kid, and some of it stuck with me despite mostly going over my head, and then I read it in grad school after it came back into print, and it worked for me despite its weird imperfections. (There were a couple times as a kid that I considered buying a copy at the library book sale, and then decided not to; I wonder how I'd be different if I had.) I feel like the imagery from that book sticks with me more than the others; also there's some great dialogue, and the "I am Christina Rossetti" story.