Sunday, August 26, 2007
Shades of Enid Blyton!
In chapter 3, p. 77, Great-Aunt Thisbe serves Oliver and Amabel a high tea which even an Enid Blyton character would have cherished: "The table was elegantly laid, the teapot at one end, a covered dish of buttered eggs at the other, with racks of toast, a dish of butter and a homemade pate. There was jam too, and a pot of honey, and sandwiches, and in the centre of the table a cakestand bearing scones, fruitcake, oatcakes and small cakes from the local baker, known as fancies."
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Chapter by chapter commentary? You're a much more dedicated reader and blogger than I am, it would seem. . . .
Yeah, but it only takes a few minutes to read a chapter. Besides, these books are so laughably similar in the overall plot that if I wrote about each book, instead of pointing out details, each blog post would be like this:
The hero meets our heroine. Though she's almost totally incapable of looking after herself, either because she's emotionally immature or because she can't find a job, he falls in love with her anyway. Of course, he can't tell her this, so the plot drags on until the end of chapter nine.
I'm far more dedicated to this blog - at least so far - than I am to my other one, because I feel like I should at least occasionally be intelligent there.
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