More good news

Unexpectedly, my brother -- who had failed to reply to any of the instalments of the Erik/Christine chapters I'd sent him, or to the whole section when I sent it as a completed text -- felt compelled to telephone me as soon as he had finished reading Raoul and the "Requin", which I posted to him in faint hopes on Friday, in order to tell me that it was absolutely gripping and he couldn't put it down.

So apparently my impression that this section was slow-moving, full of info-dump and tedious was utterly wide of the mark, since both readers loved it! ( Read more... )

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I have *almost* (which probably means another three days to a week) finished Chapter 13 in "An Outsider and a Foreigner"; the Phantom has snatched Christine and vanished, and I've just hit the key section where Raoul needs to rush off and rescue her but is held back by having a pregnant wife in tow, and Hertha has to make the choice to tell him to "leave me and go" ;-p
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