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This morning, in my inbox, I have an email from someone called Mearag Amare.
I have no idea how this is pronounced. Mearag looks Gaelic, which probably means it’s “Christina” or something else totally unrelated to the spelling. I’ve been saying Amare “A-mar-ay,” kind of like the Egyptian mummy in Caroline B. Cooney’s book Mummy—Amaral-Re.
The heroine in that book had a pretty awesome name too. She was Emlyn. Actually, lots of Caroline B. Cooney heroines had good names. Anna Sophia Lockwood and Devonny Stratton in the Out of Time series, for instance.
I tended to like the lesser-known Caroline B. Cooney books better. Out of Time was really popular but had an awfully shaky grasp on the late-Victorian period, which I found exasperating. I wasn't really fond of the Face on the Milk Carton quartet either. But I loved Mummy and the Losing Christina Trilogy (for which there is fanfic. I am so incredibly geeked that there's fanfic for Losing Christina). Did anyone else read her books?
I have no idea how this is pronounced. Mearag looks Gaelic, which probably means it’s “Christina” or something else totally unrelated to the spelling. I’ve been saying Amare “A-mar-ay,” kind of like the Egyptian mummy in Caroline B. Cooney’s book Mummy—Amaral-Re.
The heroine in that book had a pretty awesome name too. She was Emlyn. Actually, lots of Caroline B. Cooney heroines had good names. Anna Sophia Lockwood and Devonny Stratton in the Out of Time series, for instance.
I tended to like the lesser-known Caroline B. Cooney books better. Out of Time was really popular but had an awfully shaky grasp on the late-Victorian period, which I found exasperating. I wasn't really fond of the Face on the Milk Carton quartet either. But I loved Mummy and the Losing Christina Trilogy (for which there is fanfic. I am so incredibly geeked that there's fanfic for Losing Christina). Did anyone else read her books?
