August 6, 2003
Muppet Book Club
"The Great Twiddlebug Mystery"
Book : Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3
Commentary : Part 4 -- Part 5 -- Part 6
Um, hello? Did anybody notice that as soon as Tough Pigs started our Muppet Book
Club discussion salon a couple months ago, all of a sudden Little Miss Oprah
Winfrey decides that she's going to start doing her book club
again?
Did you notice that? Looks like somebody in the room has some control issues. That girl needs to step off.
But I'm not going to sink to her level. Somebody here has to be the bigger
person -- and as hard as it is to be a bigger person than Oprah, I'm going to
give it a shot. So I'm just going to step aside and announce the third selection
in the Muppet Book Club: Sherlock Hemlock and the Great Twiddlebug Mystery,
a Whitman Tell-A-Tale Book published in 1972 by Western Publishing. The book is
credited to Betty Lou, but my guess is that it was written by Revena Dwight and
illustrated by Roger Bradfield, the team behind the 1971-72 Sesame classics The
Together Book and Bert's Hall of Great Inventions.
You're invited to come join the Book Club meeting on the Tough Pigs Forum message board, where we'll be analyzing this book from top to bottom over the next few days. Even if you've never posted at the Forum before, feel free to come in anyway. Everybody's welcome at my Book Club. I think I'll even invite Jonathan Franzen. Take that, Oprah!
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Book : Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3
Commentary : Part 4 -- Part 5 -- Part 6
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