Book Review

My review of the book coming soon! I haven't yet finished it, but I was excited to get the books out, so I didn't want to wait until this was done. :)

Edit: Well, it's over three years later and I never wrote my review. But that's okay, I think Barbara will forgive me. My opinion doesn't really matter anyway, which is why this is all anonymous. That's actually part of why I never wrote the review; I didn't create this for my own ego gratification, and somehow adding my opinion takes away from her book rather than adds to it. Obviously the fact that I transcribed the book says what I think about it.

I will also wish Barbara a belated 100th and 101st birthdays, on March 3rd 2014 & 2015, respectively. It seems odd to see that little girl in the upper left corner of this page with the sad eyes and think it all happened long, long ago, like a tragic fairy tale. I have my theories about what happened to her (I don't think it was foul play by Rogers, for one), but ultimately that doesn't matter, either. We'll never know the real truth and all the players are long gone.

But at least I could help contribute another chapter to her story, along with her nephew Stefen Cooke, who runs Farksolia. Who knows what the future will hold, but I hope that her strange little book lives on and continues to delight people's imaginations. There really isn't anything like it in my experience, almost a genre with one member. It doesn't speak to everyone and it doesn't need to. It just exists in its own little time and space, like Eepersip, who lives forever in Mount Varcrobis.

A long time ago, in a land far, far away, there lived Barbara the Imaginative Little Girl. And perhaps she continues to live on in her own little time and space, separate from the tragedy that came after her, forever imagining her worlds. I'm happy that we managed to preserve the little telepathic glimpse that we got.

What do you know... reading this back, maybe I did do a review after all.

Chippy

July 17th, 2015