It was time for another Roald Dahl book. This time Esio Trot. I tried to finish a really short book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez this week, but I didn't make that either. I had friends from Holland visiting this weekend and next weekend I'll be in Liverpool so this means I have about two weeks to finish The Three Musketeers. Yes, I'm combining books these weeks. I need to get back into my rhythm.
Anyways, this week a love story. Mr. Hoppy is madly in love with his neighbour Mrs. Silver. She, however, is crazy about her tortoise Alfie. Mrs. Silver's biggest dream is that Alfie would grow though and Mr. Hoppy finds in that request a chance to win Mrs. Silver over. He buys hundreds of tortoises and in the course of a few weeks he puts a bigger tortoise in Mrs. Silver's flat. It's a simple story but for once it's just really cute. Although I feel kind of bad for Alfie who has been with Mrs. Silver for 11 years and is abruptly taken away without her even noticing. Poor tortoise...
Luckily, my Dahl books are not running out just yet so I have some more short stories for if I get more deadline issues. Let's hope it doesn't happen too often though, I already feel ridiculed by my boyfriend who doesn't understand that Roald Dahl changed the way children's book were written.
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