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| In the Greening of the Year by Lindelea | 7 Review(s) |
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| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/29/2004 |
| polliwog (also pollywog) · n. dialect & N. Amer. a tadpole. – ORIGIN ME (earlier as pollywiggle): from poll in the sense ‘head’ + wiggle. ME - Middle English. Concise Oxford Dictionary definition. (Some N. Amer. words are more authentic older-style English that English versions.) Author Reply: "pollywiggle"! Delightful, I'm half-tempted to change the word, but for the fact that nobody but you and I would likely know what I was talking about! Thanks! | |
| Hai Took | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/28/2004 |
| Oh, my Eglantine is doing so very well with trying to help Tolly. Her thinking/knowing that if she were to go to sleep she might not wake up. Not wanting to ruin Pimpernel's birthday by dying that day is very touching. I hope that that will not come to pass. Especially with Ferdi and Aldi so close to them! Oh, I do hope they are in time and this new slide hasn't done any more damage to those who are stuck! Hope more is soon! Author Reply: Here's more! And the story's nearly done... Thanks. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/28/2004 |
Am breathlessly awaiting the coming chapters. Excellently written. Author Reply: Thank you! Hope the next chapter suits as well. Just one or two chapters left after "Darkest before the Dawn" | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/28/2004 |
| "Let's not, and say we did." I'd never heard this expression until I met my husband! HEHEHE And "Lake Bilbo as it will be disappearting" Wonderful!! And tense as well - a wonderful balance. As always VWD!! Author Reply: Ah, thank you, Pearl. I'm afraid the next chapter's a cliffhanger, though anyone who's read "later" stories knows what has to happen, somehow. Sometimes I wish I could write these stories in order, rather than jumping around on the timeline, but they don't come to mind in orderly fashion at all. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/28/2004 |
| Good job on the well story. I can see a very stubborn little Pip lugging the big stone to the well and Merry going down the rope to bring him up. Seems Eglantine is finally running out of steam. I hope she can hang on until they get to her. Author Reply: She's hanging on, in more ways than one (as you'll see). Thanks! | |
| Connie B. | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/28/2004 |
| And again we miss the end of the story of Pippin falling down the well. At least we got the gist of it. What happened in the second slide? Did Eglantine and Tolly get buried, or did they slip farther down the slope? I'm sure you'll clear this up soon. Thanks. Connie B. Author Reply: You know, I'm still trying to work the end of the well story into this. So you just might hear it, we'll see. Did clear up what happened in the second slide, but had to break the next chapter up, and so there's a bit of a cliffhanger, sorry. But if I can get some computer time tomorrow I'll post the rest, or at least the second-to-last chapter, for I think there might be an epilogue. Thanks for commenting! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/28/2004 |
| They had better get to Tolly and Eglantine soon - they both seem to be suffering from hypothermia. I love the word pollywog. It's so much cuter than tadpole. Start yelling Eglantine. Attract their attention. (I've got my fingers crossed that the new slip will get Tolly free from the tree rather than kill them.) It's just such a motherly reaction to say 'I won't die on your birthday, it will spoil it for you.' (I keep telling myself; they don't die, they don't die. Get them some help!) Author Reply: I gave it some thought. I know "tadpole" is what we used when I was little, but "pollywog" sounds more authentic somehow. Now just watch it turn out to be an Americanism! Help has arrived, but the chapter split itself so the rescue is not quite complete as posted thus far. Thanks! | |