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Reviewer: Marzee Doats Signed [Report This]
Date: 01 Dec 2008 6:59:57 PM Title: Wishing

A few of the highlights in this chapter, for me:

  • That Jake, like Johnston before him, gets fed up with overly excited children and makes them go outside to "run off" their excess energy.

  •  Poor Johnny.  He thought it was his year, and then Fiona tied him in the race.  It just feels like there's a certain irony in Jake's amusement at their disappointment over his declaring it a tie.....

  • I just like Shelby, and it's intersting to see the new side of Jake she brings out.  Her mini tantrum over her "green" cracked me up, as did Mary's solution.  Sequins, indeed!

  • That supposedly impartial Gail who calls all kinds of penalties against her own family is secretly rooting for that Green victory -- and encourages Johnny to make it happen. :-)

Penny, I love your version of the Greens. :-D



Author's Response:

Thank you!

I liked including the parallels between Jake as a father and his father those years before. Though I'm sure Jake doesn't think about them too often, he knows they're there.

Poor Johnny does take a bit of a hit to his hopeful excitement in this part, but he and his uncle are, I guess, a little too invested. It's too bad Jake can't recognize this parallel.

I'm glad you enjoyed Shelby here. I think she and Mary had fun coming up with that solution, though I'm not sure Jake shared in their amusement.

Gail does try to keep up appearances of fairness in her role as the judge, but isn't above trying to nudge some of the Green family representatives towards victory.

Thanks for the wonderful compliment. Coming from a 'keeper' of the Greens, I'm glad my version works for you!

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