[HPFGU-OTChatter] Heidi (was: 30 Must Read Books)

[Laurin York]

Okay, this is going to sound weird.  But my best
friend and I used to spend all of our spare time
playing games of "Let's Pretend" with the characters
from Heidi, among other favorite books (but we started
with Heidi, for some reason).  I was Heidi and she was
Goat-Peter.  We also did Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist, the
Little House books, favorite movies and television
shows...

Little did I know at the time that we were engaging in
a kind of improv-fanfiction!  We freely combined
characters from disparate times and places (Dr. Who
and a time-machine also figured in our play, to
facilitate this).  We got quite melodramatic at times
(don't know how many "death scenes" each of us had)
and gave our imaginations quite a workout!  Probably
had something to do with my studying theatre later,
and then combining that with my love of music and
studying opera.  To think that it all starting with
curling up on my window seat on a summer day when it
was too hot to go outside, and reading Heidi cover to
cover...

--Laurin


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