tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857834966842567237.post5750475036413778449..comments2023-10-26T09:36:36.638-04:00Comments on Three Dogs and a Couch: My solar system for a bedHeather Pedenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00437608758801235095noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857834966842567237.post-56325744818615204932011-01-12T18:09:42.512-05:002011-01-12T18:09:42.512-05:00An enjoyable read, Heather. You see the amusement ...An enjoyable read, Heather. You see the amusement in this animal world of yours and I find easy delight in your descriptions of that world. For me, it is often your absolutely dead-on perfect metaphors and similes that flesh out these characters and with some economy enmesh me in the fabric of your story. The bed is not just a lime green blanket but a life raft precariously afloat in your entryway; Bear becomes, under the careless pressure of his peers, "folded like a broken umbrella"; Cleo is a"fat toad" as well as a "beached whale" and a "barnacle". These concrete images, quickly bubbling up in the mind,form very distinct pictures and the animals all begin to take shape, to breathe, to think, to talk. In addition, this entry even uses an extended analogy to further that characterization process. The whole bed arena, copiously "peopled" with animals, becomes a solar system complete with spinning planets and dashing comets. A deft touch on your part -the astronomical comparison aptly matches these characters to their solar twins. And, again, the process of characterization is deepened.Yes, it was fun to read.<br />Also, that image as prologue is quite good - you squeezed both Bear and Chestnut into a single frame. Hard to do? Or is just a common sight?Ian MacLeodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933134070879959931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857834966842567237.post-73737929251728620632011-01-10T20:53:40.880-05:002011-01-10T20:53:40.880-05:00Oh you have GOT to post a photo of all of them on ...Oh you have GOT to post a photo of all of them on the bed 'aka' life raft! LOL!Brendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08734831781770841734noreply@blogger.com