Publisher: Quirk Books
Year: 2011
Edition: first edition hardback, 19th printing
ISBN: 978-1-59474-476-1
p. 26: A deserts should be desserts.
It was just deserts, I suppose, for repeating mt grandfather's stories at school ...
Sunday, January 27, 2013
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in the book, Jacob is led by two "masked children" to watch the loop reset for the first time. It's easy to assume these are the two masked kids we see photos of... but then we never hear about them again. They are not part of the group of 10 that makes it off the island. Did they die in the bomb bast? If so, why is it not mentioned that there were any deaths when the kids return to their destroyed mansion? Surely the death of a few children would be more remarkable than rubble and ruin....
Actually, in the book, Jacob follows Miss Peregrine outside to watch the loop reset. "I strapped it [gas mask] over my face and followed her [Miss Peregrine] out onto the lawn" (167).
P.133 "I stumbled to snatched" I think u tshould be snatched but I could be wrong
Actually, deserts is correct.
Per Merriam-Webster website, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/just%20deserts, accessed January 24, 2017:
Where does the idiom just deserts come from?
Why do we say that someone has gotten their just deserts? Does this turn of phrase have anything to do with dessert (“a sweet food eaten at the end of a meal”) or desert (“a dry land with few plants and little rainfall”)? In fact, the phrase employs neither of these words. Instead, it uses a completely unrelated word that happens to be pronounced like the word for sweets and spelled like the one for a dry place: desert, meaning “reward or punishment deserved or earned by one’s qualities or acts.” This little-used noun is, as you might have guessed, related to the English verb deserve. It has nothing to do with arid, dry land, or with cookies and ice cream.
In the book, when the peculiars were trying to break out from the cage that they were put into by gypsies, it says that Horace stuck his head between the bars of the cage and let out a swarm of bees from his mouth. The thing is, Horace's power is telling the future through his dreams. The only one that has the power over controling bees is Hugh. I think Horace got confused with Hugh
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