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Harriet Spies Again
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Rating:  - Harriet is back!
Harriet is back spying! Ole Golly has come back to babysit while Harriet's parents are in France. But something is wrong with Old Golly and it's Harriet job to find out what. I loved this series of mysteries.
Rating:  - The two filled in stars are for the author's effort; the three untouched stars are for the butchering of something precious.
I admire Ericson as a very ambitious writer of fanfiction. Nothing more, nothing less. The book is fine non-canon fiction, the characters bear similarities to the originals. Mostly, they have the same names and basic mannerisms. Ericson carries on for chapter after chapter of what I can imagine must have been a very fun little diversion for her. It was miserable for me.
This is not Harriet. This is not the fierce, wonderfully real girl whose voice was true and whose spirit was sometimes painfully strong. I realize that the real Harriet scares a lot of people, namely people who fail to understand what estrangement and alienation feel like, who fail to understand what the world has in store for girls--real girls, mind you--who are denied by our culture the right to be true to themselves. Louise Fitzhugh understood it, and the antidote dripped from every word of the original. If you don't believe me, you're one of those people. And so is the woman who wrote "Harriet Spies Again." She doesn't get it. It's a shame.
Rating: - harriet spys again
this book is really good! my book club is reading it and i luv it! u could read it all day!
Rating:  - I Won't Let My Kids Read this Book
This book might be OK if you weren't capitvated by the original Harriet. If you're a true Harriet fan, however, you'll find yourself wondering about this imposter.
It's not that it's a terrible book. The characters are funny and interesting, there is a nice plot, there is some resolution to the characters' stories from the earlier book.
But it also isn't quite right. Harriet seems a bit whinier, meeker. She was always so funny and astute. She doesn't seem to have it here. Instead of finding her and her foibles delightful, I found them verging on annoying. The little touches, like her crashing weddings, seemed unnatural and forced.
I plan to encourage my children to read Harriet the Spy. But this book, I'm afraid, might ruin the magic for them. I was curious as to what another writer might dream up for this childhood heroine of mine. I think I would have been better off wondering and coming up with my own ideas.
Rating:  - Mixed Feelings
"Harriet the Spy" was one of my absolute favorite novels when I was younger, so I thought I'd give this "companion" a try. It was, well-interesting. The writing was less complex than the original (I don't know whether "dumbed down" fits or not), the characters were different, and one of the sub-plots seemed pretty obvious. But it was a nice story, and it was nice to have another little taste of Harriet's adventures, even if they were from another author's perspective. I would reccomend it only if you "want more" about Harriet, and don't really care about the writing style.
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