tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post7171651336815386820..comments2024-03-25T13:09:43.054-05:00Comments on Charlotte's Library: Watermusic, by Sarah SargentCharlottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-73664813230805181672014-03-03T11:32:33.257-05:002014-03-03T11:32:33.257-05:00I was thinking composting kitchen waste....which i...I was thinking composting kitchen waste....which is a good idea!<br /><br />The spoilt fruit smell becomes cantalope at perfect ripeness as the book progress.....Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-58070426862708497162014-03-03T11:26:24.588-05:002014-03-03T11:26:24.588-05:00...we must embrace as well the Mermaid of Fecundit...<i>...we must embrace as well the Mermaid of Fecundity or something. Which I agree with, but gee, this is a weird book.</i><br /><br />Um, we're to embrace the Mermaid of Fecundity!? Er, does she hug us back? And, if so, does she still smell of spoilt fruit?<br /><br />It all sounds like such a terrible idea...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-53866526917568773562014-03-03T08:02:45.616-05:002014-03-03T08:02:45.616-05:00I do love it, but maybe more as a prose poem than ...I do love it, but maybe more as a prose poem than a children's book. Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-4373622503653324622014-03-03T07:33:51.661-05:002014-03-03T07:33:51.661-05:00If bat-seraphs are good enough for Ted Hughes, tha...If bat-seraphs are good enough for Ted Hughes, than who am to judge? Although I've never felt much love for The Iron Man; perhaps I need to re-read it as an adult. Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-24656870917190232952014-03-03T07:32:38.634-05:002014-03-03T07:32:38.634-05:00I keep trying them, because there must have been s...I keep trying them, because there must have been some good books published in the eighties!Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-17808682575708630442014-03-03T05:15:56.515-05:002014-03-03T05:15:56.515-05:00This has really made me smile - I so want to read ...This has really made me smile - I so want to read this. Incidentally, the bat-seraph - isn't there something like that in Ted Hughes' The Iron Man? (goes to check...) Ah yes! It's the 'bat-space-angel-dragon'. First published 1968. Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-28206109526407103532014-03-02T23:59:04.756-05:002014-03-02T23:59:04.756-05:00Oh... dear. Also, I must say that you are braver ...Oh... dear. Also, I must say that you are braver than I to even pick this one up. I see a cover like that and I shudder, deep in my bones (well, not really, but there is a metric ton of aversion!). The bat/seraph thing lost me. *sigh*Ceceliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02249223364936344560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-32808694345786744932014-03-02T20:56:13.283-05:002014-03-02T20:56:13.283-05:00I have purged my photographic record as well! Som...I have purged my photographic record as well! Somethings are best lost to the mists of time....Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-52176002451208776802014-03-02T20:55:37.929-05:002014-03-02T20:55:37.929-05:00It is...which is one of the reasons the book came ...It is...which is one of the reasons the book came home with me!Charlottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835101886202235868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-32862078073423647142014-03-02T00:51:53.664-05:002014-03-02T00:51:53.664-05:00hilarious! yes please, let us blame all my weirdne...hilarious! yes please, let us blame all my weirdness on growing up in the 80s...although i never had a hairstyle like that (i had worse, but thankfully was able to quietly delete all embarrassing pictures of myself while helping my mom move. she hasn't gotten around to putting all her pictures in scrapbooks, and i doubt if she ever will, so she doesn't know i, *cough* weeded them)Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05096787155616041727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1265120169320473011.post-3702558728583250612014-03-01T19:15:24.183-05:002014-03-01T19:15:24.183-05:00Oh dear. Very bad anthropology! The house on the c...Oh dear. Very bad anthropology! The house on the cover is nice, at least....Anamaria (bookstogether)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361389598002568007noreply@blogger.com