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"   I&amp;#039;ve had Who the Hell Is Pansy O&amp;#039;Hara: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 Of The World&amp;#039;s Best-Loved Books by Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy on my desk for a while, figuring I&amp;#039;d dive into it when I had the time. I had the time this week, which is why I&amp;#039;m writing about it now, though the book has been out for almost two months and on my desk for far more. It&amp;#039;s not that I&amp;#039;m that busy, it&amp;#039;s just that I&amp;#039;m...that...distractible. (Wait, there are MORE donuts left over from today&amp;#039;s meeting???) So the book. I was excited. I want to know things about my favorite books. But Who the Hell is really doesn&amp;#039;t offer a ton of new information, or information you couldn&amp;#039;t find elsewhere if you cared enough. In fact, many of the essays are author bios that aren&amp;#039;t that strongly linked to the book that&amp;#039;s supposedly being explored. Yes, some chapters are more interesting and informative than others, but you only need to read them once.  The chapter that taught me a lot of new, surprising information was the on Winne-the-Pooh. I knew the character of Christopher Robin was based on A.A. Milne&amp;#039;s son of the same name, but I didn&amp;#039;t know that he became a star for having inspired the character. Apparently his unwanted fame weighed heavily on him, and well into his adulthood parent&amp;#039;s would track him down at the bookstore he owned so their children could meet the Christopher Robin. That must have been scary. These poor kids are probably expecting to meet the little boy they know from their favorite book and instead they&amp;#039;re shaking hands with a creepy old dude who clearly wishes they weren&amp;#039;t there.  But anyone who loves Winnie-the-Pooh probably knew this stuff. Christopher Robin Milne was very willing to talking about it, and wrote three autobiographical books on these very issues in the 70&amp;#039;s and early 80&amp;#039;s, The Enchanted Places, Path Through The Trees and Hollow on the Hill, all of which were well-reviewed.  Now those sound like very worthy distractions. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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