![]() ![]() But try as I might, I could not stand to play Town for more than about five minutes. I even attempted to recreate the first scene of the book in our side-yard mud. There were no dumbwaiters on our side of town-a lower-middle-class suburban neighborhood-though I sat next to our swamp cooler pretending it was one. ![]() I truly believed clothes were more comfortable the second day, especially my favorite pair of green bell-bottoms. 3-7) and her hiding in the dumbwaiter to spy on an unsuspecting adult in order to gather material (pp. Three details stuck with me from childhood: the rule that clothes always feel better on the second day you wear them the game of Town, where Harriet invents and records lives for imaginary people in her model town (pp. I was probably seven or eight when I read Harriet the Spy for the first time, and decades later, my memories of the book mostly center around how much I tried to be like Harriet the writer and failed. ![]()
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