the maxims of creativity...

Today's the day for simple stuff...

Simple yet elegant...

Ring any bells???

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(If you guess that right, you're an acclaimed genius!!)

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(But since you're one of the average kinds, I'll relieve your tiny brain from so much overwork)

It's 'Daddy-Long-Legs' by Jean Webster (and before you ask, no prizes for guessing that!)

Jean Webster has a charismatic style of writing...letter writing, to be more precise. Her main character, Jerusha Abbott, is sent to College by an eccentric trustee of the orphanage she's a part of, with the only condition that she must regularly write to the Trustee, whom she names 'Daddy-Long-Legs'. The way Ms Webster moulds the sublime character of Judy Abbott and Jervis Pendleton and signs off with quite an unexpected twist only fortifies her reputation as a creative and talented author.

'Jean Webster' is, in fact, the pen name of Alice Jane Chandler Webster. A hardy lady with socialism in her blood, Ms Webster was born and lived most of her life in New York State. Incidentally, she happens to be the great-niece of Mark Twain and was also related to Samuel Clemens.

'Daddy-Long-Legs' is one of those feel-good books, which leaves you with a contended aura in the end. The sequel, 'Dear Enemy', is but another milestone in the author's career.

It is easy to get lost in this fairy-tale-like story with a tinge or two of hard-core reality, so lost that you would not be able to put this book down too soon!

Happy reading!!