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Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Book time! The Westing Game

Hello Bookworms!
 Due to my sister's request, I have decided to change the font to something everyone else can read. Anyway, sorry I haven't been posting lately, school got busy. Today I will be posting a recommendation for the book, The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin. I don't think anyone in their right mind could say this book isn't funny. The first chapter introduces itself as a mystery while still remaining one of the funniest opening chapters of all time. The main characters are all specially invited to live in an apartment house much cheaper than what it's worth, and after a couple of months one of the main characters stumbles across the body of a rich eccentric who was rumored to be living out his retirement in the south seas. After telling no one of her discovery, the protagonist returns home, only to find that the very next day the entire apartment house is invited to the reading of the will, where they discover that the whole apartment house is involved in the solving of the murder mystery, and one of them is the murder. With plenty of riddles, explosions, mystery, and the occasional loon, the tenants slowly learn the difference between who people are, and who they pretend to be. My personal best line in the book is "Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. Barney Northrup had rented one of the apartments to the wrong person." From the first chapter of the book. Anyway, Habent sua fata libelli!

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