tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post2869126172784864080..comments2024-03-26T05:50:14.492-07:00Comments on Life on Magrs: The Mennyms by Sylvia WaughPaul Magrshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-32931839437534896482017-04-08T08:54:54.856-07:002017-04-08T08:54:54.856-07:00I bought these books for my children and ended up ...I bought these books for my children and ended up reading them myself. I adored them and am tempted to re-read them now. They would be a wonderful escape from our present reality here in the U.S.Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04216063946413152707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-45539245750612018162015-07-09T08:35:29.004-07:002015-07-09T08:35:29.004-07:00I've not long been diagnosed autistic, and the...I've not long been diagnosed autistic, and the Mennyms world feels like my world. I could happily live under some stairs myself. :(Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05438464836813643945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-11700105214342423482014-12-13T08:15:52.442-08:002014-12-13T08:15:52.442-08:00These are such wonderful books. An Waughs is such ...These are such wonderful books. An Waughs is such a clever writer. The plot flows without much fanfare, a brave saga that maybe nowadays would have it more diffficult to be published, because there's so much firework in every book nowadays (or so much naff plots). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16597729282173250529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-9764592579965909612013-04-11T15:16:47.946-07:002013-04-11T15:16:47.946-07:00These are superb books. I picked one up - the 3rd ...These are superb books. I picked one up - the 3rd - in a secondhandshop on holiday last year, and have wound back to the start and moved forward. What a weird world of domestic normality, although pretending. What about our own rituals and devotions, what we hide from, what we love. I wonder how they'd seem to other beings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-12394023232776490072013-04-11T03:18:04.962-07:002013-04-11T03:18:04.962-07:00The difference between 'full on' and '...The difference between 'full on' and 'forlorn' in Children's fiction of the 1990s. That's a thesis!<br /><br />You should definitely read the series, Nick - at least the first one. I promise you will love it. <br /><br />Paul Magrshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577751468827681218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7804486308558005266.post-73591550785536522612013-04-11T03:06:36.582-07:002013-04-11T03:06:36.582-07:00I was given a copy of this as a kid - by my godmot...I was given a copy of this as a kid - by my godmother, I think - and for some reason I never got around to it (perhaps because someone else had recommended it). But for years I wondered, well, what is the secret of the Mennyms? Who was that coming up the stairs in that faintly eerie cover?<br /><br />I did read it in the end - but I gave up halfway through, I'm embarrassed to say. It seemed *too* forlorn for me (the bit about Miss Quigley that you mention above!). Perhaps I should give it another go...Nick Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01618461043660129105noreply@blogger.com