Grace Mc
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Phaedra Patrick:
Arthur Pepper is a wonderful character, and we all wish he was our grandfather, but what are some of your favourite books about the older generation/who are some of your favourite older characters?
Phaedra Patrick
Hi Grace
One of my favourite books is The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck, about mature French dressmaker. Claude Reynaud. This influenced one of the scenes in my book, when Arthur visits the wedding dress shop in Paris. I also enjoy Antoine Laurain's books (The President's Hat and The Red Notebook). His characters aren't elderly, but they are definitely middle-aged.
I love to read about characters who have a goal, and then you can follow them on that goal, and cheer and cry with them along the way - no matter what their age is. I think we all support Arthur because we see in him our dads and granddads and can relate to that. We can admire his braveness and resolve, his determination and love of his family.
One of my favourite books is The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck, about mature French dressmaker. Claude Reynaud. This influenced one of the scenes in my book, when Arthur visits the wedding dress shop in Paris. I also enjoy Antoine Laurain's books (The President's Hat and The Red Notebook). His characters aren't elderly, but they are definitely middle-aged.
I love to read about characters who have a goal, and then you can follow them on that goal, and cheer and cry with them along the way - no matter what their age is. I think we all support Arthur because we see in him our dads and granddads and can relate to that. We can admire his braveness and resolve, his determination and love of his family.
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Kathy Hale
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Phaedra Patrick:
Hello, I am a librarian at the State Library of Pennsylvania. I am part of a One Book One Community Reads group in Central Pennsylvania covering a five county area. The people have voted to have your book, "The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper" as the book they want to read. Would you be willing to do a Zoom meeting that would be open to the readers of Central Pennsylvania? This was one of my favorite books!
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