It’s not easy being green

2006 October 25

tags: books, brett, jan, john, lichen, name, rancourt, wyndham

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

Hey, what a surprise, there is nobody else in the US named Lichen Rancourt… Actually, I did think there were a couple others. Jan Brett has a Christmas story in which one of the reindeer is named Lichen. I’m sure she’s a Wild Christmas Reindeer. John Wyndham also has a novel, The Trouble With Lichen, which seems not to stand up very well against his others. My mom gave me a copy as a joke a number of years ago. I’ve never read it and am now even less likely after finding out the main character’s name isn’t Lichen after all.

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