Twice the pleasure

[kalypso_v]

The delightful surprise of a box of Montezuma chocolate truffles, twice - once when glitterboy1 presented it to me on Saturday morning, and the second time when I found it while unpacking my overnight bag, as I'd forgotten all about it in the meantime. Gosh, they're good. I don't think they'll last very long

Comments

[steepholm]

That passage provides a rather lovely melding of Doylist and Watsonian perspectives.

[kalypso_v]

Yes, I suppose it would be awkward if they did have to keep dashing over to Wales, despite Albanac's special horse; they make the journey in one direction or the other four times in those last chapters. Though Uthecar points out that the rest of them have had an extra day while Susan slept.

[jhall1]

I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen shortly after it was published, thanks to the children's section of my local library. I remember being enormously impressed by it. Not long afterwards I turned 14, which meant that I graduated to the adult section of the library and so never saw the second volume in the series. I think in the not too distant future I shall have to buy all three books, reread the first and read the remaining two.

[kalypso_v]

The third book is a very different kettle of fish from the first two: for adults, rather than "boys and girls over eight" or "readers of nine and over" as my Puffins suggest of those, and closer to his work in Red Shift, if you ever read that. I've been waiting for a second reading to see if I have a clearer idea of what I think of it, and I'm quite pleased to have a chance to work through all three in quick succession.

[jhall1]

Thanks. I'm surprised that the first book was described as for over-eights. I must have been twelve or thirteen when I read it and, from what little I can remember of it after over fifty years, I would have thought that most eight and nine year-olds would have struggled with it.