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6:03 pm
June 14, 2009
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Heidi
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Praline's story brought to mind the fact that the time Qwill was marooned at Polly's little house on the farm and they first got together was my favorite all time scene. It was so tenderly written without being gushy.
Other favs of mine:
Qwill tearing up his memebership card to the country club after a bad meal in Mountain.
The moment he found out he had inherited the money in Brahams.
When Arch walked in and found Qwill alive and not burned up in the purple plum in Lived High.
Anyone want to chime in on this?
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Great Idea! Two of my favorite scenes are in "Read Backward". The first is when Qwill is so frustrated he orders a double scotch at the Press Club bar. (He never gets to drink it.) The second is when he meets George Bonifield Montclemens after hearing everyone else's negative opinion of him, and they hit it off immediately. And from thence, Qwill meets Koko.
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4:41 am
June 15, 2009
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Beth
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My all time favorite scene is when Yumyum was stolen and then rescued by Jim Qwilleran and Nick Bamba. I was so scared for her. Poor little Yumyum. I had a siamese cat that was killed 2 years ago. She was a female and reminded me of Yumyum, so dainty yet so clever.
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I am so sorry to hear about your cat, Beth.
As a matter of fact, one of my favorite scenes involved YumYum. In “The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern,†the elderly wheelchair-bound old woman who was YumYum’s constant companion passed away and her barbaric husband put YumYum outside, where she howled all night. Then Qwill rescued her and took her home, since he had been told by a “psycatatrist†that if Koko had a companion, he would stop eating the landlord’s furniture.
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4:24 pm
June 15, 2009
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Beth
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Yes, I remember that Joyce. I also like the scenes in The Cat Who Played Brahams where Qwill kept seeing blue trucks everywhere throughout the book.
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Yes, I found that particularly amusing, because the same could be said for Texas. At the time I read that, we owned a blue pickup, along with about a fourth of the Texas drivers. Those were the days, now all of us drive hybrids--in oil country even!
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7:42 am
June 16, 2009
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Beth
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The amusing scenes usually appeal to me the most.
One is when Qwill is presenting one of his one man show performances and the little girl with the white stocking legs is swinging back and forth in the front row. Qwill has so little experience with children.
Another is when the kid during another persormance points out his electrical cord is not even plugged up to the fake radio board.
Another is when they take a caravan of cars to tour the old mines to honor the plaques placed beside them and the little kid has to stop and go to the bathroom and is pestering Qwill in the car.
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7:44 am
June 16, 2009
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Anne
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Hard to pick a favorite scene.
I like the one where Qwill goes to buy a car to drive to Pickax for the first time. He is measuring the back floor for the kitty liter and the salesman is perplexed.
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9:39 am
June 17, 2009
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susan
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My favorite scene was when Qwill agreed to play Santa Claus and all the mishaps because the suit was too tight and ripped as he climbed the ladder to the podium.
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4:01 pm
June 17, 2009
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Praline
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That is a good one susan. I also like when Qwill was riding the dog sled across the frozen lake with Nancy.
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10:53 pm
June 21, 2009
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Coriannie
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I had a chuckle when Qwill visited Susan Exbridge thanking for the donation of the pie chest to Ed's Place (I think that was what it was called) in the basement of the Pirate's Chest. Of course, Susan had no intention of donating it, even though she "inherited" it from Iris Cobb and it didn't cost her anything. The volunteers at Ed's wanted it to hold valuable older books. So Qwill decided the best way was to start a rumor that Susan was going to donate that piece of furniture! And he did!
Another thing that I always give me a chuckle was that Qwill and Derek were in cahoots on those songs. Qwill would write them and Derek would sing them.
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11:08 am
June 27, 2009
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Karen
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One of my favorite scenes is when Qwill learns that "Junktown" does not mean "Junkie" and instead of writing a story about drugs in Junktown he has to write about antiques.
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I have always enjoyed the scenes where Qwill gives Celia Robinson an undercover assignment. Their play-acting at detective work is charming.
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7:46 pm
July 2, 2009
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Sue B
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I love how LJB paints a vivid picture with words, examples are pg 73 in Brahms, "So he was not prepared for the Minnie K. It was an old gray tub,rough with scabs of peeling paint. Incrustations on the deck and railings brought to mind the visits of seagulls and the intimate parts of dead fish. The two members of the crew who were present in a vague sort of way were as shabby as their craft." Don't you shudder at the smell this evokes? Another is pg 181 " The phone bleated its muffled summons..." and pg 204 "They arrived at the cabin in time to hear the telephone struggling for attention ....". Who else would describe a phone as bleating, or struggling for attention.
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11:55 pm
July 2, 2009
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Coriannie
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I need to go back and re-read all the Cat Who books, and this time make a list of all the big words! I thought I had a good vocabulary until I started reading LBJ. What a vocabulary and what a great knowledge of words and literature! And I loved how she would always get into all kinds of off-beat subjects, like goat farming, and make them so interesting and full of life.
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10:26 am
July 5, 2009
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Karen
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Another good scene is when, in The Cat Who Sang for Birds, Qwill poses as Ronald Frobnitz and fools Beverly Farfar. And those names?!?
*Ronald Frobnitz
*Beverly Farfar
*Chester Ramsbottom
in The Cat Who Sang for Birds, cracks me up.
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2:36 pm
July 12, 2009
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Anne
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I have been listening to The Cat Who Lived Lived High today. I have been thinking of story ideas out of Moose county and this book came to mind.
Already done:
Vacation on a mountain, a flooded town
Trip to Scotland
Down below to save an apt. bldg
What if Qwill left Moose county to:
Attend a baseball game with some Moose County friends and one friend was abducted, mugged, got lost from the group.............
Took a trip to visit: Aloque Rice, maybe the dog sledder girl moved to Alaska and he visits her there???
Or perhaps he goes to New York for a award or honor to do with his newspaper column and has an adventure.
He could be contacted by a 3rd or 4th cousin, and trace his mom's roots to several cousins and make a visit.
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Anne, this would be a good comment to copy to the topic "Story Ideas up for Grabs." I liked your ideas. Got me thinking I would like to see Qwill go back to Chicago, perhaps to one of his old apartments and spend a few weeks trying to live like he used to, just to see if he could handle it. Then perhaps he becomes involved in a murder case that mirrors one he handled back then, or perhaps published in "The City of Brotherly Crime."
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3:14 pm
July 13, 2009
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Praline
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I like the scene in The Cat Who Wasn't There when Qwill realizes Yumyum is missing and then resuces her. It was a nail biter.
So unexpected, like when the mansion burned and Iris died. Those scenes all took my breath away.
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12:26 am
July 14, 2009
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Coriannie
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I definitely think it is time to bring in some family either from his mother's side or even his father's side. Did his mother have any siblings, or his father? Were there any aunts or uncles? Cousins? Could there be? Maybe a greedy long-lost relative will show up.
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