Squeee!!! This is wonderful. I promise you a more coherent review later, once I've had a re-read (the first reading was gobbled down like that Hershey chocolate), but this is just so enjoyable.
Nom Nom Nom to the Hershey chocolate. We are enjoying hot chocolate right now -- not something you all are doing much of this time of year. I hope it has stopped raining!
Thanks so much! This one was a battle, as so many of them often are. The Polly and Richard romance is shown and discussed here, http://rthstewart.livejournal.com/20681.html, and I've got a whole head canon associated with it
And Mary's not likely to give up before she finds it either, is she? Nope. This goes back to her Eureka moment at the end of Part 1. She's looking for something, triggered by looking at the Flaming Cliffs book and she's going to find it.
We met Tom Clark briefly at the beginning of Chapter 1 -- the American in intelligence and now we find out why he is there, and more is made clear in the next chapter. It was so fun to be able to write that sort of American middle aged Yankee male lawyer point of view. It's the closest I've ever come to anything even approximating my own world and so it's easy to get into his head. I have lots and lots of Toms and Jacks in my world. Thanks again, so much!
As much as I love this story and these characters--and Asim is awesome!awesome!awesome in this most recent chapter--it is increasingly the background research that truly amazes me about your writing. I'm learning all sorts of interesting new things in the most enjoyable way by following along in your research. Those D Rations crack me up.
Thank you! The Wiki entry on the Ration D bars makes them sound horrible, whereas of course Hershey is very interested in making them sound great. I actually couldn't find anything about how much of the production was devoted to the Ration D and how much to regular chocolate. I'm assuming that those chocolate bars the American GIs were giving out to girls along with stockings and babies was not the ration bar but the real thing. The packs I saw at the WW2 Museum in New Orleans were real Hershey bars (I THINK). Thanks so much!
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And Mary's not likely to give up before she finds it either, is she?
Nope. This goes back to her Eureka moment at the end of Part 1. She's looking for something, triggered by looking at the Flaming Cliffs book and she's going to find it.
We met Tom Clark briefly at the beginning of Chapter 1 -- the American in intelligence and now we find out why he is there, and more is made clear in the next chapter. It was so fun to be able to write that sort of American middle aged Yankee male lawyer point of view. It's the closest I've ever come to anything even approximating my own world and so it's easy to get into his head. I have lots and lots of Toms and Jacks in my world. Thanks again, so much!
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