Um, so…I didn’t really like The Westing Game. Sorry. I know a lot of y’all LOVE it and it seems like on of those childhood books that everyone remembers fondly, but reading it for the first time as a 29-year-old, it was pretty…meh. Not great. Not awful, but still…. “Friday was back to normal, if the actions of suspicious would-be heirs competing for a two-hundred-million-dollar prize could be considered normal.” So if you’re not familiar with the plot, basically these sixteen residents of an apartment building […]
It really was quite a game.
Last week, we drove to New York and we listened to the CD of The Westing Game in the car. The Westing Game is about 16 people who are brought together because they are all mentioned as heirs in a very rich businessman’s (Samuel Westing) will. And they can only inherit his fortune of $200,000,000 if they can solve the mystery of his murder. The heirs are paired together and given a set of clues and $10,000 to help them solve the mystery. The clues […]