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Monday, June 10, 2013
Scary Thoughts
Let's pause for a moment and
go backward or forward, if you wish, in time to Halloween, when little hobgoblins often dressed in very weird customs come
a-knocking at your door begging for candy.
I believe that giving out candy just because children ask for it is
not right. So, in response to their "Trick or Treat", I retort with: "If you do a trick for me, then you'll
get a treat. If not, not." Most of the kids in my neighborhood come prepared with jokes, riddles, stories, and elaborate
explanations of their attire. Some do cartwheels on the lawn and a few perform really neat and interesting magic tricks. All
of them eventually leave with two or three bite-sized candy bars in their goodie bags and while I smile while waving at them
from the stoop as they happily leave, I always find the tradition a bit peculiar.
Rather like Miss Peregrine's
charges in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Only, in this case, the children's tricks are real and the only real treats about this graphically absorbing
novel is that it is a morbidly fascinating read and that the story is a metaphor for real-life terrors, even though the children
are stuck in a time-stasis and Jacob Portman, their hero, is the only one who can save them from those often all-too-genuine
"things that go bump in the night".
If you follow the link to my review on www.authorexposure.com, you will find out why.
12:58 pm edt
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June
J. McInerney, the host of this Literary Blog, is
an author, poet, and librettist. Her currently published works include a novel, a book of spiritual inspirations,
two
volumes of poetry, stories
for children (of all ages) and
a variety of children's musicals. Her titles include: Miss Elmira's Secret Treasure:
A Novel of Phoenixville during the Early 1900s Colonial Theatre: A Novel of Phoenixville
during the Roarin' 20s Phoenix Hose, Hook & Ladder: A Novel of Phoenixville during
World War I Columbia Hotel: A Novel of Phoenixville during the Early 1900s the Schuylkill Monster: A Novel of Phoenixville in 1978
The Prisoner's
Portrait: A Novel of Phoenxville during World War II
Forty-Thirty Rainbow in the Sky Meditations for New Members
Adventures
of Oreigh Ogglefont The Basset Chronicles. Cats of Nine Tales Spinach
Water: A Collection of Poems Exodus Ending: A
Collection of More Spiritual Poems
We Three Kings Beauty and the Beast Bethlehem Noah's
Rainbow Peter, Wolf, and Red Riding
Hood
Originally from the New York metropolitan area, June currently lives near Valley Forge Park in Pennsylvania with her constant and loving companions, FrankieBernard and Sebastian Cat. She
is currently working on her sixth novel.
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