If the first batches of e-mails were like hit singles, devoured eagerly by an information-starved campus, this latest release is more like a box set: for completists only.
In this, the fifth of the Pamplemousse gastronomic mysteries, Michael Bond (also author of the Paddington Bear stories) has produced a thoroughly delightful story, filled with whimsical situations and mouth-watering meals, all of which we, the readers, devour eagerly.
A number of them were even published as supplements in children's magazines, and I remember devouring them eagerly.
It will be devoured as eagerly as Matilda.
After furiously binge-streaming all 13 episodes of "Orange Is the New Black," the Netflix comic drama about a former Connecticut debutante serving a 15-month jail sentence for laundering drug money, I devoured, equally eagerly, the book from which it was adapted.
Late last year, as an extra layer of insulation against a severe London winter, I embarked on a project of reading in French the novels I had devoured so eagerly in translation, and which I felt had helped form me. I picked up Camus's book again, only this time in a compact Livre de Poche, dated 1963.
It is wholly – in fact, quite prettily – surrounded by lusciously colourful licks of red and yellow flame, eagerly devouring this creature, whose skin seems to be melting from its body, almost effortlessly.
This book just arrived in the mail so I've only read the first chapter, but already, I expect I'll be awake all night eagerly devouring this delightful gem of a book in one sitting......................
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Hungry from the sea air and waxing philosophical, I was soon eagerly devouring Stuffat Tal-Qamit, a delicious octopus stew.
As the Hulk swaggered past all the Midwesterners eagerly devouring wasabi mashed potatoes and sesame crusted tuna, their heads began to peek up like prairie dogs as Hogan exited the bathroom to head over to his table.
