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.
OK--I'm relieved! Spinelli captured you with his gossamer wing prose. Now you'll be able to enjoy this text on its own terms, even as you're peeking around the corner to make sure that he doesn't break your heart with how he ends it. When you get to the end, go back and reread the end of Stargirl. See if it changes your experience with that part of the text. It did for me.
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