New Blog Post!

[donnie]

I like how the "explanation" of the location gradually evolves. And also the abundance of directions the next events could take.

This actually reminds me that some of my favorite writing is plotless, slice-of-life, impressions that leave the mind to wonder.

Do some more.

[Kitty]

I like how the "explanation" of the location gradually evolves. And also the abundance of directions the next events could take.

This actually reminds me that some of my favorite writing is plotless, slice-of-life, impressions that leave the mind to wonder.

Do some more.

Thank you! I will!!

[Kitty]

https://blog.silentphotoplay.com/2022/0 ... o-laughed/

My latest book review!

[Kitty]

https://blog.silentphotoplay.com/2023/0 ... ying-fire/

H. G. Wells' The Undying Fire (1919)

[donnie]

That's an interesting sounding book! I'd no idea H.G. Wells wrote that kind of fiction. It's interesting the way he adapted Job (one of the most interesting and also mysterious of the Old Testament books). I thought that was particularly clever about the conversation with God being taking place in the dream.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I hope Miss Garrelson / Qarrelson / Sarrelson / Carrelson did, too.

[Kitty]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I hope Miss Garrelson / Qarrelson / Sarrelson / Carrelson did, too.

I enjoyed the book, but not as much as Dawn O'Hara and definitely more than Madame Liang!! On to my next book!

[Kitty]

New Blog Post!
https://blog.silentphotoplay.com/2023/04/12/gertie/

[donnie]

Wow, that's a dark little story isn't it? But as I stated in the comment, I liked your twist on it. I hope that's the message the author intended, because it's a good one.

I still think that if there could have been more of a concrete indication of some kind of the difference the boys had made that it would have given more a useful, positive message. Otherwise, it could be seen as just a melodrama for the purpose of evoking sadness for sadness's sake (if that makes any sense).

Do you think it needed something at the end in those terms? At any rate, I liked your emphasis on how important a small kindness can be. You never know how just a simple smile or a friendly word can totally change someone's day—something to always be aware of.

[Kitty]

Wow, that's a dark little story isn't it? But as I stated in the comment, I liked your twist on it. I hope that's the message the author intended, because it's a good one.

Do you think it needed something at the end in those terms? At any rate, I liked your emphasis on how important a small kindness can be. You never know how just a simple smile or a friendly word can totally change someone's day—something to always be aware of.

Thank you so much for your comments. I think that it would have been a tad more satisfying if the author had added something to the effect of what I stated in my comments on the blog, but I believe that this was the point of the story. The beginning is a plea for the boys in the town, for people to realize that they are not the heartless little urchins that they seem to be at first glance.

[Kitty]

https://blog.silentphotoplay.com/2024/0 ... e-big-toe/