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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt (Charlotte Zolotow Books) (edizione 1994)di Patricia MacLachlan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Minna wishes for many things. She wishes she understood the quote taped above her mother's typewriter:Fact and fiction are different truths. She wishes her mother would stop writing long enough to really listen to her. She wishes her house were peaceful and orderly like her friend Lucas's. Most of all, she wishes she could find a vibrato on her cello and play Mozart the way he deserves to be played. Minna soon discovers that some things can't be found-they just have to happen. And as she waits for her vibrato to happen, Minna begins to understand some facts and fictions about herself. From Amazon With my recent reading of MacLachlan's Waiting for the Magic, this author is fast becoming one of my favorites. I found this older book of hers, and devoured it in one evening. The city setting and tone reminded me of some of Madeleine L'Engle's books and of Anastasia Krupnik, by Lois Lowry. Minna, an accomplished cellist at 11, lives with her brother and rather eccentric parents. Her mother, a writer, tacks strange (to Minna) phrases above her typewriter. The hardest one for Minna to understand is: "Fact and Fiction are different truths." How can fiction be truth? thinks the literal-minded girl. Then she meets Lucas, a new member of her music group, who plays the viola, and has very orderly, calm parents. Over the course of several months, Minna learns facts and fictions about herself and her family. The novel is at times, drily humorous, warm, and thoughtful, my favorite type of writing. Minna has a good, strong relationship with her one year younger brother, McGrew (what an unusal name!), who puts everything to song, driving his teachers crazy, but delighting friends and family. This makes me think about the habits of some kids at school, and how they may be annoying in a school environment, but appreciated at home. I love all the other characters, too: Minna's music instructor, Porch, who loves Mozart; Willie, the street player who always returns Minna's donations; her psychologist father, who is gentle; her mother, so focused on her writing; Lucas' housekeeper, Twig (what a great name!), a crazy driver and briliant cook who keeps Lucas' secret (frogs in his bedroom); Emily Parmalee, the catcher on McGrew's baseball team. Here are some of my favorite quotes: FACT AND FICTION ARE DIFFERENT TRUTHS "Think about the music, not just the notes." Porch to students, p. 83; also THINK ABOUT THE STORY, NOT JUST THE WORDS "Outside it was overcast, with a light that softened them all." p.107 - "softened" is a perfect description "Dog falls into her lap in a heap of love." p. 108 The ending is perfect! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Much of the book is taken up by Minna's experiences and goals as a cellist, which I appreciated. She gets a crush on newcomer Lucas, whose life is wildly different than hers. He's a complete character foil for Minna. No siblings, but several beloved frogs...that he has somehow successfully hidden from his parents because ~they don't ever go into his room~. They're excessively formal in speech and manner to themselves and others, and I wondered if they realized it wasn't the late 1800s anymore. Twig, the housekeeper, is quite lively next to them, and more like a cheerful parent. Lucas' mother goes into his room on a flimsy pretext. She sees the frogs thriving in their aquariums, and runs downstairs screaming about aliens. Absurd! It was not funny, cute, or in any way believable. Lucas regularly carries frogs in his pockets and somehow they don't die. Somehow they're all fine when he releases them into a nearby pond.
It was at this point I started skimming. Cliches and some low-level hijinks fill the rest of the book. The final paragraph, and especially the final line of the book, have always stuck with me. In fact, I used them to find the book as an adult. I still think they're great. But now, I believe they belong in a better book.. ( )