This is my defining characteristic, this preoccupation with order. Even the bumper stickers that cover the four walls of my bedroom are lined up at perfect right angles. I’d think them into orderly submission and then revel in the crisp solution.
It’s funny to think that I spent the first eighteen years of my life putting things in perfect order: math problems, number sequences, puzzles. I think I’m going to have to start paying better attention to omens. I saw it on a Volkswagen in the LAX parking lot as I was leaving for MIT.
It would be the ideal bumper sticker for the back of my car, but I just might wait and have it put on my tombstone someday. And what follows is usually a movie-scale epic disaster. Both the CIA and eco-terrorist Jonas Furnas (who returns from the first book) are monitoring her computer, and after she breaks into the Department of Defense's database, Digits ends up in hot water with friends and foes.MY NEW FAVORITE BUMPER STICKER: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? It’s the question that the completely clueless ask when standing in the middle of their perfect happy ending. But her participation in the usual college hijinks is short-lived. "Double Digit" finds our loveable, spunky heroine at MIT, where her math talents make her fit in rather than stand out. In "A Girl Named Digit," she inadvertently cracks a terror code, is "kidnapped" by the FBI, falls for young FBI agent and fellow prodigy John, and learns to accept and take responsibility for her gift, even though it makes her stand out in ways that make her uncomfortable.
The math wunderkind has been seeing patterns and cracking codes since childhood (ergo her nickname). Rye resident, Annabel Monaghan, author of the witty, thrill-ride of a young adult novel, "A Girl Named Digit," will speak about her follow-up novel, "Double Digit," at the Rye Free Reading Room tonight at 7:00pm!įarrah Higgins, aka Digit, is a teen with an extraordinary gift.
0 kommentar(er)
