Ficlet for Laurose8

Dear laurose8 here is some Basil of Baker Street and Danger Mouse for you:


“It’s very good of you to put me up for a few days,” Danger Mouse said.

“Not at all, old boy, glad to be of service,” Basil replied. “I’m afraid you’ll have to sleep on the sofa.”

“Quite, quite. I do understand.”

“But what brings you to our city?”

“The Baron has intentions of stealing Her Majesty’s jewels and I am here to thwart him.”

“Any help I and Dawson can give you, just let us know.”

At that moment Dawson came in, followed by a sorry looking hamster.

“Penfold!” exclaimed Danger Mouse. “What happened to you?”

“Sorry Chief, I managed to get lost.”

“Never mind,” Dawson said. “All’s well that end’s well. Let’s stoke the fire up and we’ll have some crumpets for tea.”

***

Mouselet put the comic down. It was fun to read about Basil and Danger Mouse, but it was not nearly as entertaining as her own life at 221B Baker Street.

[O/N: Comic available on subscription from the publishers of the Marylebone Monthly Illustrated]

Book Meme #3

27: How/where do you purchase your books?
Occasionally from book shops, Waterstones if I receive tokens from my mother-in-law, the Book Depository for other new books. And mainly from Ebay - I'm quite happy reading second hand books, since I'll probably only read them once. Apart from generally pre-owned books there are a lot which are library stock withdrawn from service. And when I've finished reading and written my review I take them to the charity book shop in Tewkesbury.

28: An ending you wish you could change verdande_mi
Part of me would like to change the ending of The Hobbit, but in the book I think it was right. And there's always fanfic for the film ;) Just one book? My first thought was The Age of Innocence but I'd have changed so much of that book, maybe then The Doomsday Book so it was more dramatic. As I said to daria234 in answer to Q7, the ending is important.

30: One book everyone should read snailbones
Ooh, difficult. I've never been keen on 'everyone should read' because we all have different responses to things. I'd certainly like more people to read the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories to see what's actually said. But I'm going to suggest The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham.

32: OTP or NoTP?
NoTP - that's not generally what I'm reading for.

33: Cute and fluffy or dramatic and deadly?
Dramatic, but not necessarily deadly.

37: A book you are scared is not going to be all you hoped it would be?
The final book in the Temeraire series.

38: What qualities do you find annoying in a character? okapi1895
Incompetence, as correctly predicted ;) Mistakes happen, unforeseen events occur, people are learning - all of these are perfectly acceptable. But so-called intelligent characters who fail to consider the consequences and those in authority where their incompetence is used as a plot point as much as anything else, just no.

39: Favourite villain snailbones
Hmm, I'm not sure I have one. A lot of what I read doesn't necessarily have a villain. Some of the baddies in the Discworld series are entertaining. I don't like Moriarty in ACD Sherlock Holmes, but have a soft spot for Andrew Scott's Moriarty in BBC Sherlock; and I really like Moriarty in The Librarians tv series.

40: Has there ever been a book you wish you could un-read? okapi1895
I suspect I've blanked out any I read some time ago. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, which I felt was a total waste of time, but that would be because I could have read something else, rather than the specific contents.