'Septimus Heap - Magyk' - chapter 25 - 36

    I think Mrs Sage read a lot of other books. ;-) There is this scence where the Heaps' place is emptied: the books are meant to be put outside to be collected by the firemen! It reminds me so much of Fahrenheit 451!

    Just finished this part.
    I liked the Shield Bugs,they reminded me of something, is there an advertisement for a dishwasher detergent or similar with an insect with a helmet and a shield? :gruebel
    And I still don´t believe that the apprentice is Septimus.
    I have to read on it´s getting more and more exciting and the second book is waiting at home :-]

    Huh... sorry but what are wendron witches? Somehow like big fairys? Or like elves?
    I found no word in my dictionary.... :-(


    The Shield Bugs are very sweet and i'm waiting, what would happen to Marcia, because she's forgotten to imprint the Spell.


    What are you talking about Septimus? He's dead isn't he?


    (I've not read the blurb, so i've no idea, why he should be alive.....)

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    What are you talking about Septimus? He's dead isn't he?


    (I've not read the blurb, so i've no idea, why he should be alive.....)


    Maybe because the book is called "Septimus Heap - Magyk" :lache


    About the Shields Bugs, what I had in mind was the not any ad for dishwasher detergent but the bacterias from the "Actimel" ad :wow

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    Huh... sorry but what are wendron witches? Somehow like big fairys? Or like elves?
    I found no word in my dictionary.... :-(


    @BJ, have a look at this site that I`ve found.


    Hint on wendron witches:


    They are mentioned there and obviously they are kind of white witches in Cornwall:


    "Witch-Doctors.--I heard the following witch-story from a lawyer, a native of the district, who lives in the country just beyond Marazion:--'Jimmy Thomas, of Wendron parish, who died within the last twenty-five years, was the last witch-doctor I know about in West Cornwall. He was supposed to have great power over evil spirits. His immediate predecessor was a woman, called the "Witch of Wendron", and she did a big business. My father once visited her in company with a friend whose father had lost some horses. This was about seventy to eighty years ago. The witch when consulted on this occasion turned her back to my father's companion, and began talking to herself in Cornish. Then she gave him some herbs. His father used the herbs, and no more horses died: the herbs were supposed to have driven all evil spirits out of the stable."


    :wave
    Ikarus

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    Thanks Ikarus... :-]


    You`re welcome, BJ :-)


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    I'm so disapointed about the shield-bug action.... I've expected a hard fight and what happend? Such a mess.... :cry


    That`s one of the reasons why I like this series very much: it`s unpredictable what happens and I have to admit that I`m of the same opinion as BJ (what`s really rare and unusual ;-)...): the book is not very much alike "Harry Potter" and it is everything but boring to me.


    Funny how different taste is :-)


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    Ikarus

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    I think Mrs Sage read a lot of other books. ;-)


    Yup, especially too much Harry Potter. When the messanger rat appeared in the scene I was ready to throw the book out of the window. Pleeeeease, just because it's not an owl doesn't make this an original idea. I find this extremely distracting while reading the book. Can't remember ever having read a book where I was comparing it to another one constantly like this.

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    Beatrix


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