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| Healing the Long Cleeve by TopazTook | 9 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/5/2005 |
| Such innocence, and then a Hobbit bodice-ripper! I have been giggling through the entire section since she sat with Willow. Dear, innocent Diamond! I hope it gives her some pleasant ideas! Author Reply: Glad you enjoyed. Of course, just as not all wanderers are lost: not all romances are bodice-rippers. ;) | |
| powerwriter | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/15/2004 |
| Ah! Diamond had an extreme case of naiveness! She really needs thoughts of her own. I'd be nice to see her and Pip have a conversation together where she finally realizes she can actually be a real person! Goodness, Diamond is frustrating me and I'm just a reader, LOL! It's like she's been brainwashed, poor child. Who woulda thunk hobbits had romance novelas? Author Reply: She does have thoughts of her own...she's just not necessarily sharing them out loud yet. And I'm betting that Frodo walked past the romance novel section every time he went to the booksellers in Hobbiton -- not that he necessarily purchased any, mind you, but he walked past them. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/15/2004 |
| Goodness! I love this. Finally some signs of spunk from our Diamond! I really like how you portrayed this little episode, with the hints of Pip's past health problems, without dwelling overmuch on them. And the healer giving Diamond the hobbit equivalent of Harlequin Romances--how funny! I only hope they are explicit enough to do her some good. One thing--when she finally finds out, isn't she going to be resentful of her mother, and Pip and the healer for not telling her the truth to begin with? She's bound to feel they've made a fool of her. Author Reply: I'm glad you like it. Of course, her spunk comes in the form of arguing with her mother-in-law, LOL. I like the universe in which Pippin has had bad health throughout his childhood -- there were some hints of that in the flashbacks in Chap. 2, too -- but if I went into full details, it would have just taken over the chapter. Glad you like the "Harlequin" (Hobbiton?) romances,too. As for how Diamond is going to feel, I think that's up to her. We have to be careful about assuming the way we would react to something is how somebody else is going to feel. | |
| Ariel | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/14/2004 |
| OOooo! Looks like Diamond is getting closer to giving me my wish! Hehehehe... Actually it will be very nice to see her develop into the wife Pippin deserves. Bravo - well done and engaging story! Thank you! Author Reply: Thank *you* for such kind reviews! :) As for wish fulfillment, you'll just have to wait and see -- although your comments did lead to some speculation on a totally inappropriate for this venue additional and/or alternate chapter.;) | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/10/2004 |
| Mills and Boon - very UK - used to be generic romance novels of a kind so similar they became known by the publisher's name rather than by author. Full of lantern-jawed broad-chested heroes rescuing delicate females from peril / falling in love / being divided / being reunited - but always concluding with them falling into each other's arms. Diamond wouldn't learn much practical information from them! I believe they now incorporate more action, but I couldn't bring myself to read one to find out! It would be difficult to broach the subject with Eglantine - but sooner or later she will pick up on the idea that Diamond does not understand the tea time conversation that always seems to happen in female society. Or maybe Diamond will sit there sipping at her rosehip tea, listening agog to the bedroom revelations woven round the arrival of somebody's baby. Author Reply: Hmm. Doesn't sound like the type of books I'll be going out of my way to read any time soon, either. In the U.S., the stereotypical romance novel publisher would be Harlequin: paperback books frequently sold at grocery stores and other non-bookstore outlets, with covers which generally feature a muscular man with his shirt half off holding a woman who appears to have just swooned into his arms. Can't say I've read more than maybe one or two of those, either, although they are in part what Willow's book collection is based on: note the tattered covers denoting cheap bindings. ;) I'll let you keep speculating on what direction you think Diamond's education is going to take. (evil grin) | |
| Kriszta | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/9/2004 |
| Poor little, naive girl... though it's hard for me to imagine how she can have so little knowledge about the "birds and the bees", since she has grown up in the countryside, among cats, dogs and other animals... or was she severely sheltered in their smial and always trained? Anyway, this way we can get a brilliant story about getting that knowledge, although I am wondering what is she going to do with the newly gathered information... :) Up until this point I din't love this Diamond: so reserved, with so little emotion, always trying to please her new family with her doing, her personality pushed into the background. But now she is getting to warm up, and I started to pity her. She is so alone, and she knows so little about certain things... I wonder if she knows what the love is? Author Reply: Well, her family are more merchants than farmers, and she was indeed severely sheltered in their smial -- even more so when they found out she was going to marry Pippin, which was just at the age where she might have been expected to start learning a few things. We're all still getting to know Diamond in this story, but her personality is starting to peep through in little bits. She does deserve some pity, as you are right that she is very alone in the Great Smials. I don't think she does quite know what romantic love is...and it may be that, more than the sex that everyone seems to keep focusing on in the reviews, that is most important for her to learn, through the books and other means. | |
| Auntiemeesh | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/8/2004 |
| I love how Pippin wakes up, assuming he's been sick for days, only to find that it's still 'today.' Diamond has been well trained. And I loved the conversation with the healer. Poor Diamond is so innocent. I hope the books help her. Looking forward to more of this excellent story. :) Author Reply: Well, with his health history, it's understandable...and also explains why Eglantine freaked out so much! LOL. He could certainly do with a live-in healer, so it's good that you think Diamond has been well-trained in this area. I'm glad you liked her conversation with her own healer as well. And thank you so much for your compliments on the story! Next chapter should be up next weekend, I hope. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/8/2004 |
| Willow's book collection made me hoot. I hope the content is a little more informative than old-fashioned Mills and Boon romances used to be. Is it Naked Gun that had all the incoming tides and falling chimneys? I would have thought life in a rural economy would have given her some idea of the birds and the bees, but apparently she has been far too sheltered. How long was Pippin going to leave it before he brought in the hit squad of Eglantine and his sisters to let her know the terrible truth? Still Diamond seems to have some skills in healing - but she needs to relax a bit. Author Reply: I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Mills and Boon romances, so can't answer that question. As for "Naked Gun," if you're talking about the movie, it's been *years* since I saw that, and all I really remember is Leslie Nielsen falling down a lot. Yes, Diamond has been very sheltered...and her family are more merchants than farmers. Hmm. You appear to have Pippin acting differently than I think he would. Can you just imagine that conversation: "Mama? You have to talk to my wife, because she won't lie with me. Have a whole discussion about your son's sex life. Have fun." And, as we have seen in this chapter, Diamond is getting on sooo well with Eglantine (rolls eyes). Pearl's off in Whitwell; Pimpernel's trying to play her political cards right with the new young Mistress, and Pervinca...will be seen again in Chap. 8. :) | |
| pipspebblle | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 8/7/2004 |
| :-) Oooh, I love it. Diamond is reading hobbit romances to learn about sex! *whoops in delight* What a stroke of genius! Wonderful! Author Reply: I'm so glad you like it! Of course, it's not *just* sex she's learning about...although I'm pretty sure Holly Grubbfoot and Cap Hilldown end up happily married in a smial behind the smithy shop;).... To paraphrase James 2:26 ("faith without works is dead"), "sex, without love, is dead." | |