Monday, 10 November 2003

bike

Two 3.8-mile city rides. Even just that slight amount of exercise improves my outlook considerable-like.

stargirl

Okay. This is the best of the Jerry Spinelli I've read. It's interesting that he usually writes in the first person when the narrator is not the protagonist. How often does that happen? Nick in The Great Gatsby. Ishmael in Moby-Dick. And, uh, others. It's not as if Spinelli doesn't have good precedent to emulate. But he might have emulated it once too often.

I did like Stargirl, and maybe she wasn't meant to be possible. I wish I had read it before Crash. And Wringer. And even Maniac McGee.