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I read this book in the 1970s and I loved it. I do not remember Judy being a matchmaker, I do remember a chapter where she had a pet mouse that died. I would love to see this movie
shareThe writing in the book is spare and eloquent--just a lovely piece of work. As I recall, the movie was entertaining in its own way, but really presented a slightly different story, from a different standpoint than the book, which was an episodic portrait of a little girl in the awkward transitional time at the end of her childhood.
shareSpare and eloquent indeed. If Hemingway wrote a book about a teenage girl's coming of age, it would be JUNIOR MISS. Every Christmas I re-read the Christmas chapter (each chapter is a self-contained short story), and it wasn't until the fifth or sixth reading that I finally "got" it and found the subtle point very moving.
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