Guessing it’s the acid from the paper that was blocked
My thought was something to do with the lignins.
Wouldn’t it be the tannins? Either way, the paper is reacting somehow.
No idea, not a chemist or biologist. Just read/heard about lignins, it does lend a smell from what I understand, but they’re both part of plants, so… both?
The Truce at Bakura?
That was my guess too.
I read sooo many SW (legends) books in the 90’s
I was born in 89, so not exactly the age demographic for them at the time haha.
You weren’t a kid in the 90s? That’s when I got into them.
Would have been 7 when this one came out, little out of the capabilities of most kids that age.
They’re not exactly Tolstoy, and most of the books I read and have read didn’t come out the same year I read them.
I guess that’s neither here nor there now, it being thirty years later of course. I don’t mean to get into an argument about it, but of course it’s the internet and some instincts are harder than others to reign in. Hopefully you enjoy them now as much as I did then :D
Just saying your expectations for what grade 2ers are able to read are a little high. They would be minimum grade 5-6 level before a kid would comprehend the material.
My kids are literally this age right now, they enjoy hearing the stories, but they can’t read them. The older one in grade 5. Just starting Harry Potter. That’s the demographic. Which puts that at 10 years, or 99 and no longer that decade really.
And yes I am enjoying them, reading them in chronological order. So almost onto the last Era
I guess the kids who I bummed (re:stole 😓) them from in third grade were above their level.
I’m sure I didn’t comprehend all of it, but that didn’t stop me from trying :) Sometimes it’s better to punch above your level just so you push yourself.
Ding ding ding.
Stop rifling through my books.
