Lauren Dunlap
- Cat'N'Mouse: B
- The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman: C
- The Room in the Attic: A
- Dangerous Laughter: B
- History of a Disturbance: B
- The Dome: B-
- In the Reign of Harad the 4th: C
- The other Town: A
- The Tower: B
- Here at the Historical Society: B+
- A Change in Fashion: A
- A Precursor of the Cinema: A
- The Wizard of West Orange: A
* Cat'N'Mouse: B
This being the first story in the collection, I did not know what to think. Honestly, Throughout the story all I could imagine was tom and Jerry.
The story seemed as if it could have stopped within the first few pages.
It is from a third person prospective. I feel like the author got some inspiration from the famous Tom and Jerry. It begins with a "mouse" and "cat" who are running and breaking the house they reside in. The cat ignorantly runs around after the mouse.
Throughout the story the mouse is always running away and outsmarting the cat. The cat is constantly chasing the mouse in hope that brute force will triumph over smarts.
It reads as if it is a cartoon. It flows with the characters and their actions. I like how it is very descriptive. You can easily understand the characters.
What I didn't like was how there was barely any dialogue. Without speaking between characters it leaves a connection missing. When you can read a character's thoughts it helps the reader to better understand them on a deeper level.
* The Room in the Attic: A
This was a really interesting story. Out of the whole collection, I enjoyed this one the most.
It is as if the main character is just talking to us. In my opinion this story did a good job at tying the reader to the characters. The story focuses on the main character's (Dave's) point of view. In the beginning they say they entered an "uneasy friendship" which I could definitely relate to. There were many times that this story caught me off guard. I believe this is the most interesting one in the collection. I like how you get drawn into the story. The Room in the Attic is separated by three subtitles. the first discusses the birth of the friendship between the main character and a boy named Wolf. The second section talks more about the main character and Wolf's ill sister, Isabel. The third discusses Isabel opening up more and coming out more from her room.
I did not like that Wolf kind of disappears midway through the story. He was a big part of the beginning but after Isabel was introduced he kind of took a back seat.
I would have like to find out what happens with him and Dave. Isabel seems to replace Wolf.
*In the Reign of Harad the 4th: C
I was not fond of this story. This one talks about a maker of miniature figures. It was interesting. It spoke of a very childish king who hid his obsession with toys.
The maker would remake the king's old toys. The master maker would create "world" inside looking glasses. Even though it was odd, it was still cool to hear from a third person prospective about the toy maker.
The scenes cut between the toy maker producing seemingly impossible glass creations for the king, and the king having an almost bipolar reaction to the creations. The King really loved the fly but then basically denies an even more extravagant one of a basket of apples.
The king seemed impossible to please thanks to the toy palace.
In this section, I like how you are told about the toy master creating the toy palace. It kind of foreshadows the later insatiable king.
What I did not like was how it is always in third person prospective. I would have loved to read this story from the point of the toy master's mind. All I could imagine was what he might be thinking throughout the entire process of making a toy, the king not being satisfied, and going back to the drawing board over and over again.
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