“Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand,” Matilda said to her.
Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.
The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.
A fine writer will always make you feel that,Mrs Phelps said.
And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
“I will, I will. Did you know”, Mrs Phelps said, “that public libraries like this allow you to borrow books and take them home?”
“I didn't know that,” Matilda said. “Could I do it?”
“Of course,” Mrs Phelps said. “When you have chosen the book you want,”
bring it to me so I can make a note of it and it's yours for two weeks. You can take more than one if you wish.”
From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones.
Her own small bedroom now became her reading-room and there she would sit and read most afternoons, often with a mug of hot chocolate beside her.
She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen,
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