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Originally Posted by dreams
I really enjoyed reading this book. Before I began, I did some background reading about the time period and location, so I would have a better understanding of the context of the situations.
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What a nice comment you gave as, Dreams. So generous of you, as always.
To me also the book is very pleasant to read. I have not finished as I enjoy it and I want to taste carefully its flavors. It is not a great book, whichever way one looks at it. But ...
The book took me right in a pre milk shakes time. Let me share my notes.
Expressions like "untrammeled girlishness" make me more than giggle. A whirling crowd of aunts, she cousins (cousinesses?), sisters, friends of sisters, sisters of friends came to my mind at set it to a nostalgic, admired and amused state.
"There is one thing about the chicken business: if a hen is lazy or uncooperative or disagreeable you can chop off her head and relieve the situation once and for all."
1) What a useful metaphor if one substitutes the word chicken with a choice from the list {coworker, relative, repair man, tennis partner, bridge partner, et alia ad libitum}.
2) I like this "once and for all". Very feminine. All the commanding women in my life have used it to fence off my masculine promptitude to ... postponement.
"It rained at least three of the seven days a week..". It is not so much the Cold Rain Forest climate that impresses me as the need to make clear the exact number of days in a week. My older daughter (35 and she made a grandad of me just few months ago) keeps admiring me because I can compute 10% of 100 without a glitch. She has a degree in science by the way.
Unless she wanted to express 3/7 which I have yet to encounter in the funny systems of Anglo Saxon's.
"Bats hanging upside down in the cellar, flying in the open bedroom windows" Reading this I remember the first time I heard a real scream, the one that my younger aunt let go in the middle of the night because she thought to have a bat entrapped in her coiffure.
An other reason for constant mirth is the description of the bossy and insensitive behaviors of dear Hubby and the obvious pleasures she has in his company. Mysteries of the feminine soul.
I totally disapprove of putting green peppers in the chowder.