Yesssss, I love the latest hijinks in The Lightning Conductor! One truly feels for Molly and her aunt (perhaps especially her aunt, lol) in their road trip straits, but one feels even more for the shady chauffeur; perhaps not so much for the theft part, but he did earn his pay and then some in all that cranking and repairing while the ladies sat glumly having tea on the verge. The new chauffeur however is clearly a Better Sort all around! I didn't expect to get his letters too, and I'm cackling with glee at it. (One wonders if we'll get any particular characterization for Lord Lane, or if he'll remain mostly the excuse for the epistolary-ing...)
I signed up for the Christmas Carol readalong, too. I've never actually read it! Not in full, I mean; I read a very very abridged illustrated version when I was a kid, the kind meant more to be decorative than anything. I remember it as a little gem of a book, copiously illustrated and thick but only a few inches square, brought out at Christmas as part of the decorations, but from plot descriptions I'm fairly sure it pared the story down to the bone in service of size and aesthetics.
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Date: 2022-11-30 06:48 pm (UTC)I signed up for the Christmas Carol readalong, too. I've never actually read it! Not in full, I mean; I read a very very abridged illustrated version when I was a kid, the kind meant more to be decorative than anything. I remember it as a little gem of a book, copiously illustrated and thick but only a few inches square, brought out at Christmas as part of the decorations, but from plot descriptions I'm fairly sure it pared the story down to the bone in service of size and aesthetics.