7/4/2023 0 Comments Harvey the thief of always![]() ![]() The Holiday House is truly a place of miracles. Given the rest of the book, I’d bet on the latter. Thinking about it, given that Harvey was willing to follow a strange man to a mysterious house without much consideration for his safety, suggests either that Harvey is not very bright, or Rictus is extremely persuasive. There is no better place for children, Rictus said, than Mister Hood’s Holiday House. Then he met a strange, smiling man named Rictus, who told Harvey of a wonderful place where boredom could not enter, and there was nothing to be had but fun and adventure. The interminable grayness of February, the drudgery of life – going to school, coming home, going to school again – and believes that, if his life became the tiniest bit more boring, he would most certainly perish. Harvey Swick is ten years old, and like so many ten year-old boys, he is bored with his life. ![]() Having grown up in New England, where February is the punishment that God metes out for all sinners, I have decided that you can’t beat that. ![]() “The great, gray beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.” This book has one of the best opening lines I have ever read: ![]()
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