Okay, I was wrong/Language

Spinelli, you helped me turn my depressing blue-monday into a powder blue-sun day. Yes, sun day.  Let me show you what Spinelli does to cheer me up just like that through the use of Stargirl.  Stargirl takes Dootsie her newest yet youngest bestfriend to her enchanted place to watch the sun come up. He uses word play within the characters to say little things that make my heart grow a few sizes bigger. Let me show you, I will set up the scene.  They are in the barren land, watching the sun come up on the Summer Solstice at 4:30 in the morning.  Dootsie says: "Stargirl?"
"Yes?"
"That was better than TV."
"It was."
"Stargirl?"
"Yes?"
"Does the sun do that every day?
"Yes."
"Stargirl?"
"Yes?"
"Every day is sun day."

Spinelli, you've got me.  This simple language yet fun word play remembers why I fell in love with the Stargirl novels in the first place.  Okay, so it might not be a 10/10 like the original was, but so far Love, Stargirl is shaping up to be a 9 or a 9.5/10 and for a sequel I'd say that was pretty good. I'm still hoping for a happy ending though.

Love, Stargirl

Don't get me wrong I love it, and I hate being cliche here, but....its not as good as the original. Are the sequels ever as good? The Toy Story sequel--not as good. The Peter Pan, Jungle Book, Transformers, the list of sequels in every genre of entertainment just are not as good. Okay I'll admit I'm being harsh here and on occasion a sequel can still be good, but does not live up to the original.  Maybe its because I'm not spending enough time with Love, Stargirl as I did with Stargirl. Maybe I just can't come to terms with Leo and Stargirl not being together. In all honesty, its breaking my heart. I neeeeeeed (can't stresh the e's enough) this to have a happy ending and I'm hoping that Stargirl will tell us in her "world's longest letter," that they find each other and get back together. So far, seems very unlikely.  Its a monday, and happy endings just don't seem all that probable. I look outside and see rain, even though the sun is shining.  Maybe because today is just a rotten day that I feel this way about the book, maybe my expectations were just too high. Don't get me wrong, the more Stargirl the better, but I just need some happy, a glass full of sunshine in an enchanted place.  Not a breakup story where lovers do not reunite. Help me out here, Spinelli.

STARGIRL IS BACK!

Started Love, Stargirl. And its phenomenal, just as I expected. What I love about it so far is how Spinelli embodies Stargirl.  In Stargirl he embodied Leo and made such a character out of him.  But what I love in the sequel is that he completely changes roles as the author and steps into the shoes of a completely different character all while maintaining the crucial attributes that make Stargirl, Stargirl.So far its great. This entry of the blog is short because I want to read it. I'm picking it up as we speak.