| From a footnote on page 11: "In case you are wondering, Mary loved the idea of being annotated but, as was the case of the rest of the book, didn't love the actual writing. What you are reading here in the margins, and sometimes outside the margins, too, is therefore a compound of hers, mine, and ours." And now in my words: I think the book is superb, and part of the joy comes from the gleeful footnotes, and you can't always parse out for sure who is saying what, though it mostly, to my ears, sounds like Green. But he's wrong in his summary of Ursula Nordstrom's "The Secret Language" which he calls "a crypto-lesbian romance." At least, I find that description a rather reductive one for a classic children's novel, for 3rd graders, about loneliness, friendship, and boarding school! But I digress. |
