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Monday, March 24, 2014

I'm Peculiar
A number of years ago, while writing the libretto for Peter, the Wolf, and Red Riding Hood (...'cause she's not so little anymore), I penned a poem for a quirky (like me!) friend of mine entitled "I'm Peculiar" (the poem's name, not my friend's). I had so much fun with it that I decided to include it in the musical as a duet sung by the characters (Peter's) Grandpa and (Red's) Mother. My talented collaborator composed the most intriguing music for it, which we published along with the play’s other songs and its full script on amazon.com. The lyrics of “I’m Peculiar”go something like this:

I'm peculiar
Definitely peculiar
But what is most peculiar
Is that I do
Find you
Definitely peculiar
Too!

We're compatible
Amazingly compatible
But what is most compatible
Is that friends who
Are new
Are amazingly compatible, too!

It could not have been by chance
It had to be planned, this crazy romance
I don't think I will ever forget
How through circumstance we’ve met.
Or how peculiarly compatible
We'd quickly get
And that I would write
This vignette.
Yet...

I'm peculiar
Definitely peculiar
But what is most peculiar
Is that I do find you
Definitely peculiar
Too! ^{©2000-2014 L.F. Uzelac and J.J. McInerney}

So, coincidentally enough, years later, here I am wrapped up in reading the really weird Peculiar Children series of novels by a quirky but all so very talented author named Ransom Riggs. And I thought, "Hey! this should be his theme song!" Because his characters are children with odd, strange, and intriguing talents that make them different than other humans. He calls them "peculiars" and, along with their ymbrymes, they have the most amazing – and frightening –adventures and tales to tell.

I just finished Hollow City , the second in the series and was just as enthralled with it as I was with the first, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , which I reviewed here and for www.authorexposure.com last June. My latest Riggs review is posted there now.

If you're looking for a different, um, peculiarly interesting read, then this is this novel and its prequel are for you!

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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.

June's novels can be purchased at amazon.com, through Barnes and Noble,
at the Historical Society of the Phoenixville Area,
and the Gateway Pharmacy in Phoenixvile, PA.

For more information about her musicals, which are also available on amazon.com,

please access www.stagedoormusicals.com.