Yes, exactly as amid those mixed files, the Newbery winner, once mentioned, how many people would rather conceive a hope, which is an urge to challenge the prosaic daily life, while they lack of a practical plan? Or, how many people once wondered if the statues and the mummies in the sarcophagi in the Louvre would be gadding around after all the visitors were going home at the midnight? What is the feeling idling about in the Metropolitan Museum alone? This children's bestseller expresses the fascinating world of children's imagination, curiosity, logic, and the courage to delve into an adventure they, like the main characters in this book, Claudia and Jamie, might not even know at how much cost it would take in order to find the final mystery of an angel-like sculpture, which turned out to be chiseled masterly in Bologna by Michelangelo, once owned by a rich old lady, Mrs. Basil. A girl and boy running away from boring family life turned themselves successfully into detectives to put each string of clues together to find the barely-honest answer, or, what the author might really want to say, the truth to every detail in our seemingly normal daily life. Mrs. Konigsburg would rather encourage than implore her readers to discover what's new in the stagnant, tedious routine living, and be scientific and inquisitive about every thing surrounding us.

It's been quite long since I read something really interesting and inspiring last time as 'The Count of Monte Christo', well, maybe not so great since sliced bread, yet undisputedly with briskness and conciseness of this short novel, in my opinion, also along with a noble sense of author's philosophy of life and full disclosure of merits of human beings. Thanks to our English teacher, I finally found another shining bead in plethora of great books worth reading again and again.

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