Goblin Moon Available on Kindle -- now

[TheTomG]

Read the review but not the spoiler, since I'm still reading! Going slow, not due to the book I might add, just due to my life commitments. I usually finding myself sitting down to read and getting just another 3 pages or so done before Something Crops Up and I have to put it down.

Which is frustrating, but, such is life!

[Perpetual Man]

Originally Posted by Ursa major

I agree with just about all of that, Perp.

Just a small comment, though, which given that this is a review of the Kindle version, may be unimportant. The book cover shown is that from the book's initial publication. Is there any way you can replace that with the current cover?

Hmmm Good question Ursa, I shall have a little play...

and done. (I think)

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Perpetual Man

and done. (I think)

It looks like it from my end.

Thanks for the review. Not just that it was a good one, but that you took the time to write it.

I am curious, though, to know which character you wanted to slap?

[Perpetual Man]

My pleasure Teresa, it really was a wonderful book.

The character that fell within the slapping was Cousin Clothilde, there was just something about her...

[Teresa Edgerton]

Ah, I suspected that it might be her. The treatments she inflicts on Elsie, in order to draw attention to her own motherly suffering, makes her a good candidate for a slapping.

[Perpetual Man]

As strange as it seems, when characters in stories start to get to me like that, I always enjoy the books more - characters being able to annoy me is a sign they are more real. Helps them step out of the pages.

[The Judge]

I thought she was suffering Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy!

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by The Judge

I thought she was suffering Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy!

That was my thought while writing her. Just the sort of mother everyone wants ...

The cures, however, are all based on 18th century medical theories. Alas, I've always regretted that I didn't know about mouse sandwiches at the time.

[The Judge]

Makes a change from cucumber, I suppose. And I sincerely hope the crusts were cut off.

Seriously, what on earth did they think would be cured by eating mice?!

[pyan]

Drinking wine made out of them, apparently, is good for "driving out wind, clearing up meridians, and improving blood circulation"...

Field-mouse wine

And "roasted mice were prescribed to cure measles, colds, and fevers"...

Medieval Medicine And The Human Body

[Teresa Edgerton]

Fried mice figured as a cure for whooping cough and ague, but the idea of mouse sandwiches somehow appeals to me more. Like the plain roasted mouse, they were a sovereign cure for colds and fevers.

(I have a cold now, but I think I'll resist the urge to experiment ...)

[Mouse]

Eep! ....

[HareBrain]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

Fried mice figured as a cure for whooping cough and ague, but the idea of mouse sandwiches somehow appeals to me more. Like the plain roasted mouse, they were a sovereign cure for colds and fevers.

The one in your avatar seems to be sprinkling itself with icing sugar from a star-shaped shaker**. I assume that's how sugar mice originated, perhaps as an alternative to cough sweets (though it was very clever to train the mice to do the preparation themselves).


** surely even the Judge could not fail to find that alliteration pleasing.

[Ursa major]

And then there's the one in Mouse's avatar: chocolate coated with a light dusting of icing on the face and underside.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Mouse, there are mice, and then there are mouses. You are clearly one of the mouses, and need have no fear that you will end up between two slices of bread.

However, I have it on good authority than the animal in my avatar is a rat.