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isabelquinn in 1bruce1

Unicorn Club #10: Mandy in the Middle

Jan 20, 2010 20:44

or, Lila Learns a Valuable Lesson About Money. And presumably unlearns it again very, very quickly. This book is in first person, alternating between Lila POV and Mandy POV. The Unicorn Club books are oddly inconsistent with first and third person narration, and with one POV or two.

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recapper: isabelquinn, miss lila fowler, mandy miller, unicorns

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loubeelou January 24 2010, 04:19:24 UTC

So what happened to the house? Did Lila still buy it? Is it just sitting there like a baby Fowler Crest??

mirrorbird January 24 2010, 06:21:11 UTC

My favorite part of this book was, is, and will always be the part where Randall says something like:

"If Randy's short for Randall, does that mean Mandy is short for Mandall?"

I swear to god I spit my cheerios every time I read that. Maybe that's only funny to me, I don't know. I laughed just typing it.

Mandall. XD XD XD

kakeochi_umai January 24 2010, 08:12:05 UTC

Mandy will forever be "Mandall" to me now. XD XD XD

kakeochi_umai January 24 2010, 08:11:49 UTC

Also, I can't quite figure out why Mandy is so desperate to keep Randall a secret. I mean, I get why she's not telling Elizabeth - she'd be all over that Disadvantaged But Loveable boy and edge Mandy right out - but there's nothing inherently underhanded about visiting a kid with cancer.

First, that part about Elizabeth is funny because it's true.

Second, I recently read a book where a member of a rich clique secretly volunteers at a homeless shelter because she's looking for her secret illegitimate daughter whom she turned away when the daughter came looking for her, and later discovered that after she turned her away she became a homeless heroin addict. So I now have this mental picture of Randall being Mandy's secret illegitimate son. Also, the name Randall will forever make me think of the snitch in Recess. Or the bad guy in Monsters, Inc.

perfectsize12 January 24 2010, 18:27:29 UTC

Now I keep picturing George Fowler as Scrooge McDuck! And it really bothers me that I don't know what happened to the house that Lila bought!

dirtywingsgirl January 28 2010, 13:33:42 UTC

IMAGINE IF HE HAD. Fowler Crest would probably be made out of shortbread or something.
Bahaha. You're hilarious. I am familiar with this book, and you did a great, snappy recap of it. (I wish I could keep my recaps so succinct...I seem to painstakingly ramble on for ages. You captured it really well without going on for too long).
And I love your pic of Wendall. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.

PS: The POV changing in the Unicorns shat me off so much. From 1st person, to shared 1st person, to 3rd person? Really, ghostwriters? Were so little people reading the series that you thought you could do whatever you wanted without anyone noticing?