Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:39 am
I just reread this last night and I was pleasantly surprised this was one of the books that I never really liked as a kid, but reading it again now, it seems a lot better than I remember! Fave/worst scenes? Not really sure I have either of these. Nothing stuck out either way it's a fairly good, solid book without being spectacular. Though I will say that the scene where the Triplets are wondering about Miss Andrews' sanity is definitely amusing! How is Len shaping up as a leader? Pretty well, I would have said. I think she handles Jack very well - and it can't have been easy to be faced with someone as inquisative as Jack. I think she also handles Margot very well, being willing and able to talk to her but not forcing her confidence and not butting in until Margot asks her to. What do you think of her forfeiting her Montreux trip to speak to Miss Annersley about Margot? I think it's perhaps the only thing she could have done given that Margot was clearly very anxious about the matter. The other option would have been suggesting Margot go and see Miss Annersley herself - and given the state Margot was in, that probably wasn't a good idea at all! I know the HB version of the scene differs (so I'll be interested to see exactly how), but the PB version (at least from my read) does work quite well. Is Margot finally beginning to mature? Yes. I know there are a few trials still for her to come through (I'm looking forward to discussing Triplets in a couple of weeks' time!), but she is definitely more mature here. Here's a thought though: How much more mature would she be (or not be) if Emerance had stayed at the school? I think it's very much the lack of Emmy in this book and Ruey before it that force Margot to mature. Opinion re Jack? I like Jack she's a basically nice child, although I do have a question: Is she supposed to be Ruth's daughter? If so, I thought she and Anne were twins! Opinion re Margaret Twiss I didn't like her. She's a bit of a whiner. She serves her purpose, and thankfully, irrc, then vanishes into the ether never to be seen again. Anything else? One other thing I did like was the continued development of the Len/Con/Margot/Ros/Ted/Ricki/Ruey/Francie chummery. I think the scene when they're ski-ing to the san is such a nice interraction of friends, something that EBD does very well. Ray *will now wade her way through another not-favoured book so as to be able to contribute to the Wins the Trick discussion*
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