As one journeys through "Freckles: Angel on Her Shoulder",  many song titles are mentioned as well as the groups who performed them. If you are curious about the songs and want to get the feeling of the particular 'scene' the song applies to, it might pay you to look them up and download them on an I-Pod or MP3 or similar device - or just your PC would do. An understanding of the main protagonists feelings for each other or their moods could only be enhanced by listening to, for example, "Hey, Little One" a ballad by Dorsey Burnette from 1960 as it applied to a spotlight dance the software mogul Orson and  the trooper lieutenant Mara partook in at the 'Anacortes Roadster Show' evening sock-hop. I encourage you as readers to follow this directive as a means of making the story more 'real'.  It might help out some of the artists in their old age - the ones that should have rightfully made the money in the first place. It will introduce you to musics that you didn't realize were so good or had paid little attention to or perhaps had never heard before. The music might emphasize movement in a particular 'scene' (such as "Cry Baby" by the Scarlets from 1955 when a steam locomotive was at  speed, a car racing it to a crossing to get to the hospital ) (The Birth of Mara).  This could add another  dimension to your reading. Try it and see how it works for you.

                                                             Eric G. Waggoner 

                                         Freckles Series (the next one is in the oven)