Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Fictional Character


If I could be any fictional character, I think I would most like to be Ginny Blackstone from Maureen Johnson’s 13 Little Blue Envelopes. Ginny gets to go on this fabulous fully funded international adventure following, as the title would suggest, 13 little blue envelopes. How cool would it be to say you traveled around Europe by yourself following letters your dead aunt left you? Slightly sketchy, but nevertheless a fun story. With her aunt’s quirkiness, she finds herself meeting new people who are equally as quirky, but somehow have some sort of deeper meaning in the jigsaw puzzle that her aunt has created for her. Wouldn’t you love to go to a dumpling place in New York and find a plane ticket to London? Or donate a couple hundred pounds to a cute, British, starving actor who ends up taking you to Scotland? And of course, there is the slightly bitter sweet ending that doesn’t seem at all realistic, but hey, everything gets solved in the sequel so that’s always a plus. 

Sorry that this was late Mr. Logsdon! 

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