Day: Jan 8, 2025

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 6

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Goodreads Blurb:This book is fantastic and frightening, but entirely plausible. It doesn’t just seem scientifically possible, but its characters are living people shaken out of the civilisation they know into the horror of a world dominated by triffids. 

The triffids are grotesque and dangerous plants, over seven feet tall, originally cultivated for their yield of high-grade oil. So long as conditions give the mastery to their human directors, they are a valuable asset to mankind. But when a sudden universal disaster turns those conditions upside down, then the triffids, seizing their opportunity, become an active and dreadful menace.

The story of what happens is told here by one of the few people lucky enough to escape the disaster.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Do Not Look Out the Window. I first read this when I was a child, and there’s always a fear that books you read in childhood won’t stand up to the scrutiny of your adult mind and understanding of the world. And that’s what I feared with this book. I’ve never been more pleased to be proven wrong. If anything it’s only gotten better 💫

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Eighth Love of their Life

And if we’re talking about assholes – sorry that was a reference to yesterday’s post – may I introduce you to the runner up.

Marty

Marty is not really a love interest for anyone except poor Lucy, and by the end of the series she’s thrown him to the curb – so he really shouldn’t be included in this list at all. And yet for a small time him and Rory were very close, and it looked even like they might become a couple. He certainly wanted that, but then Logan appeared and such things were never to be.

We cannot therefore judge him for what kind of boyfriend he might have been for our spunky Hermione, as he never got the chance to show us. But given his conduct as her friend – I can’t say it would have been much to write home of either. As soon he has it confirmed that Rory is not into him, and instead likes Logan, he ditches her. Yeah, there friendship meant absolutely nothing to him. And when they meet again in season 7, he outright lies to his current girlfriend (who Roary has recently befriended ignorant of who she was dating) that he’s never met Rory before. Dude, is a weird – sad, little man.

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