James and the Giant Peach
Sep. 30th, 2009 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheLinnea just asked me to read this, so I dropped everything and started.
I got 11 chapters - 30 pages - read before my throat hurt from all the voices. She spent most of that time in tears. Rob is reading to her now while I feed Emer and drink tea with honey.
Linnea was immensely relieved when the ladybird spoke kindly.
But when I paused, she started to cry again.
The parent death and cruelty and loneliness and hunger were too much for her, but she wanted me to keep reading. I think it gets easier after this, though; once he's in the peach I think no-one is actively cruel to him any more.
Emer was much, much less intensely affected.
I got 11 chapters - 30 pages - read before my throat hurt from all the voices. She spent most of that time in tears. Rob is reading to her now while I feed Emer and drink tea with honey.
Linnea was immensely relieved when the ladybird spoke kindly.
But when I paused, she started to cry again.
The parent death and cruelty and loneliness and hunger were too much for her, but she wanted me to keep reading. I think it gets easier after this, though; once he's in the peach I think no-one is actively cruel to him any more.
Emer was much, much less intensely affected.