A blog of my running thoughts while reading. *Warning: Spoilers*
This book begins very quietly, but already there is a sense of foreboding - something very bad is about to happen. Nevertheless, I already like the main character a lot. She’s bright and sweet and able to see the good side of just about everything around her. She has fun in a situation where that can’t be easy! I like her very much so far!
This is a really great story. I love the way it turns out, with Captain Marvel being the one person who really gets it and saves them. I love the restaurant the characters visit throughout the story! It’s just so funny and so perfect in its way! It would be a fun thing to actually visit because it’s just so silly! Anyway, this was a great book and I really like it.
Why was the second half of Perseus’s tale split into two parts? It was confusing and weird that Hawthorne decided to do it that way. He told the story tolerably well, but splitting it in half made things like the prophecy very confusing. I wasn’t sure what the point of his having done that was. His storytelling is frustrating me!
This is such an interesting and complicated view of what could have happened in the future of the DC universe. The portrayal of Superman is particularly interesting. Everything about him is true to Superman, but he has somehow broken over the years. We always knew that Clark wasn’t particularly good at dealing with losses and disappointments, but this is that reaction taken to an extreme we’ve rarely, if ever, seen before and it’s fascinating.
This was a wonderful book, although it left much unanswered (I assume deliberately). This seemed like such a simple story much of the way through, but it was really anything but simple. There was so much going on and it was all so interesting! I just can’t believe how good a book this was and how much I enjoyed it! I’m going to miss it!
That was a sad story. Hawthorne tells many stories about Venus and her work, but he doesn’t seem to want his readers to be altogether fond of her. He describes her as being beautiful and traveling lavishly, but he only seems to tell stories about her where she appears vindictive or clueless or something. What’s his problem with Venus?
This is a great book! There was a lot of stuff revealed in the last chapter and I can’t wait to see how the story finally ends. I’ve come to really care about the characters in this book a lot. I want very much to see what happens to them and have very much to see what happens to them and have very much enjoyed watching them change and develop over the course of this book. They’re just all fascinating characters! I’m going to be a little sad when this ends!
Hawthorne told both of the King Midas myths together in one story. They connected pretty well, but it didn’t make for a unified story in feeling at all. I’m really not sure why Hawthorne set up this book the way he did. The first couple of stories are each extremely long and make up more than half the length (probably close to three-fourths) and then there are a bunch of very short random stories after that. It’s extremely odd!
The princess finally got to do something, sort of. She at least figured it out before the boys did! The scene in the town really showed how clueless the royal family is, though. If they had asked Pia and Enzio they would have known what would happen, at least generally. I liked that Pia wanted to have saved herself, even if she did kind of enjoy riding with the prince. I’m also really starting to like Prince Vito, he’s much improved since he made friends with Enzio. How is this possibly going to end, though? Still so many questions have no answers!
This was an interesting issue of Cricket. I liked the end of “The Explorer” a lot and continue to be intrigued by the adventures of “Long Meg”. The story “Storm Chaser” was really good - the emotions felt very real. “The Thousandth Sword” was an interesting tale with still more interesting history behind. “Instead of the War Drum: The Story of Ashoka” was also a fascinating bit of history. I wasn’t as intrigued by the insect story and information, but both were well done. The historical information about the microscope was far more interesting to me! I loved the poem “Icarus”. Overall, this was a good issue, it just wasn’t all to my taste (and that’s probably as it should be - I’m not the only reader)!