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#1: Lollipop (lollipop) on Sep 30, 2017

Oh my goodness, I was entranced by Cue for Treason as a child of eight when I found it in the library, and it has affected some of my reading preferences throughout my life. I then read every novel about Elizabethan times in the children's section of the library, and when I ran out of those I moved on to adult novels, and when I ran out of Tudors I moved on to the Stuarts and then back and forth in English, Scottish, French, and Spanish history. (These were the days when Canadian children were taught British history long before we were exposed to a slanted view of Canadian history in high school.) When I ran out of fiction I moved on to non-fiction. All this while I was still in elementary school before I was twelve. I still read English and French history when I find it. I recently found a softcover reproduction of Cue for Treason that was printed using photographs of the original cover and pages, so it had the old-fashioned look of the original edition. I just had to have it, and I didn't stop grinning for a week. What a trip down memory lane. Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_for_Treason

Wow. I am speechless. Your welcome.

so, you liked it?

David, I did like it, but barely, just a teeny bit.

Actually I'm still reading English, French, and Scottish historical fiction in my old(ish) age, and I still trace it all back to Cue for Treason. That's a *lot* of decades. I did give that reproduction of the original book to my then-teen grandson a year after this puzzle appeared (he's the same age as this century) and I told him about how I'd loved it. He started to read it, or perhaps he told me so to spare my feelings, but he lost interest early on. Oh well.

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