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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E.L. Konigsburg
2.5
"Wouldn't it be strange if there were different rules for different coloured people? Like different rules for red people and for blue people?" WE GET IT
RTC
The review:
Lol imagine living in the 12th century and having to deal with all these entitled nobles.
Yeah, so none of the characters were cool at all (except maybe the Abbot, although he kept encouraging Eleanor in her shenanigans). It turns out royal families were very dysfunctional!
Okay, so I already knew that but reading about it was even worse. Also, how are you going to read a man's character when he's only 6 years old??? Leave my boy John be.
So, anyway, it was written in an easy-to-read way that spoke to the imagination. As I said, the characters were all the worst, but that's not really something the author had any control over. I liked how it felt like a description and the author didn't take sides. (Because there were no good sides to take lol)
The book follows the medieval view of heaven: you get an amount of time in Purgatory (length depends on how nasty you were) and then you get into heaven. Churchill's there but Hitler's still in purgatory I guess.
The in-between parts are set in heaven. Personally, I thought the quips and references to modern-day Europe were a bit annoying. They were trying to come off as tongue-in-cheek and quirky, but they just weren't really. I did appreciate the effort to bridge the gap between then and now. That was cool, it might help children see how humans back then were the same as humans now.
RTC
The review:
Lol imagine living in the 12th century and having to deal with all these entitled nobles.
Yeah, so none of the characters were cool at all (except maybe the Abbot, although he kept encouraging Eleanor in her shenanigans). It turns out royal families were very dysfunctional!
Okay, so I already knew that but reading about it was even worse. Also, how are you going to read a man's character when he's only 6 years old??? Leave my boy John be.
So, anyway, it was written in an easy-to-read way that spoke to the imagination. As I said, the characters were all the worst, but that's not really something the author had any control over. I liked how it felt like a description and the author didn't take sides. (Because there were no good sides to take lol)
The book follows the medieval view of heaven: you get an amount of time in Purgatory (length depends on how nasty you were) and then you get into heaven. Churchill's there but Hitler's still in purgatory I guess.
The in-between parts are set in heaven. Personally, I thought the quips and references to modern-day Europe were a bit annoying. They were trying to come off as tongue-in-cheek and quirky, but they just weren't really. I did appreciate the effort to bridge the gap between then and now. That was cool, it might help children see how humans back then were the same as humans now.