I enjoyed your ranking and comments; thank you for creating that. Though I think in your dislike of the books you are missing what the real lure of the Miss Silver books is for those who love them. It's not so much the mysteries or the solutions as the character of Miss Silver herself. Her interactions with other characters. Her rigid schoolmarm judgmentalism, tempered by her evenheadedness and conscience. The cough. The quoting of Tennyson. The way she wins over people by showing a genuine unfaked uncontrived interest in the minutia of their lives. The way she divides everyone into two groups. There are the worthy with whom she is warm and indulgent, usually the young, sometimes the middle aged, and in one charming scene a cat. Then there are the unworthy in her eyes, with whom she is distant but always fair. The quality of the mystery is a separate thing from the quantity and quality of the Miss SIlver fix in a book. It would likely lead to a completely different ranking. Although sometimes the non-Silver details just ruin the book too much. You reminded me, in your #29 choice The Traveller (with 2 Ls) Returns/She Came Back, how much that book drives me crazy. The completely unbelievable identical cousins trope. Phillip's not knowing the "girls" apart and his stupid simplistic way of thinking he figured out who is who. And the repeated repetition of the annoying pair of similar sounding names -- Anne Jocelyn and Annie (never Anne) Joyce. I'd rank it below Lonesome Road!
Thank you! It's been about a year or so since I finished the series which was my first time reading through. I think in that time and reflecting on Miss Silver and Patricia Wentworth, I stand by my criticisms. However, I also think more highly of those novels I ranked higher up and I have grown a fondness for Miss Silver and her recurring cast. Actually I was just thinking yesterday about how much I enjoyed reading Miss Silver Deals with Death and how well the characters are drawn in that one. One of my biggest critiques of the series is that Miss Silver is often not in the books enough and because a lot of the plots have a sameness to them, I wish she came onto the scene earlier and more often.
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Looking forward to next week's video, it sounds good.
I enjoyed your ranking and comments; thank you for creating that. Though I think in your dislike of the books you are missing what the real lure of the Miss Silver books is for those who love them. It's not so much the mysteries or the solutions as the character of Miss Silver herself. Her interactions with other characters. Her rigid schoolmarm judgmentalism, tempered by her evenheadedness and conscience. The cough. The quoting of Tennyson. The way she wins over people by showing a genuine unfaked uncontrived interest in the minutia of their lives. The way she divides everyone into two groups. There are the worthy with whom she is warm and indulgent, usually the young, sometimes the middle aged, and in one charming scene a cat. Then there are the unworthy in her eyes, with whom she is distant but always fair. The quality of the mystery is a separate thing from the quantity and quality of the Miss SIlver fix in a book. It would likely lead to a completely different ranking. Although sometimes the non-Silver details just ruin the book too much. You reminded me, in your #29 choice The Traveller (with 2 Ls) Returns/She Came Back, how much that book drives me crazy. The completely unbelievable identical cousins trope. Phillip's not knowing the "girls" apart and his stupid simplistic way of thinking he figured out who is who. And the repeated repetition of the annoying pair of similar sounding names -- Anne Jocelyn and Annie (never Anne) Joyce. I'd rank it below Lonesome Road!
Thank you! It's been about a year or so since I finished the series which was my first time reading through. I think in that time and reflecting on Miss Silver and Patricia Wentworth, I stand by my criticisms. However, I also think more highly of those novels I ranked higher up and I have grown a fondness for Miss Silver and her recurring cast. Actually I was just thinking yesterday about how much I enjoyed reading Miss Silver Deals with Death and how well the characters are drawn in that one. One of my biggest critiques of the series is that Miss Silver is often not in the books enough and because a lot of the plots have a sameness to them, I wish she came onto the scene earlier and more often.