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meeners 's review for:
Five Have a Wonderful Time
by Enid Blyton
for the most part i haven't been recording these on goodreads, but for the past few weeks i have been DEVOURING enid blyton's books out of misplaced nostalgia - misplaced because i did not actually read these books as a child but feel like i would probably have loved them if i had. caravanning on the moors! camping out on a deserted island! living in a half-crumbling castle! thwarting evildoers! and - most important of all - going on picnics and drinking lashings and lashings of ginger beer!*
*fact! the phrase "lashings of ginger beer" is attributed to enid blyton but it actually comes from the 1982 famous five parody (five go mad in dorset). i watched the parody years ago but sort of accidentally and before i had even ever heard of enid blyton, so of course it fell flat. now i think it is rather brilliant and its criticisms still socially relevant. hurrah for the comic strip - they are positively wizard!
i always read for a bit before going to bed, and i've found that these books are a nice easy way of getting some reading time in while still keeping one's brain in idle mode.
*fact! the phrase "lashings of ginger beer" is attributed to enid blyton but it actually comes from the 1982 famous five parody (five go mad in dorset). i watched the parody years ago but sort of accidentally and before i had even ever heard of enid blyton, so of course it fell flat. now i think it is rather brilliant and its criticisms still socially relevant. hurrah for the comic strip - they are positively wizard!
i always read for a bit before going to bed, and i've found that these books are a nice easy way of getting some reading time in while still keeping one's brain in idle mode.