I finally finished it! Thank you to audiobook! I really don't think I can make it through the ending which sounds like a whole page of i-love-you shouting by reading it myself. or describing environment, I don't like picturing the backdrop from long descriptions in my mind.... Listening is easier to glide over things I tend to ignore and note what I like... it's sadly true for me.

Well I mean it's still pretty much a children's book, I don't see anything specifically very new, althought it adds into what I already gathered from other book. I suppose it's just a matter of the order of meeting these stories. Themes include 'like and equal are not the same thing', and sight is a restriction that stops you from knowing what things are. I don't particularly see where the to love is to be vulnerable comes from, even though afterwords said it. The travel through wonderful spaces feels a little bit like La Belle Sauvage. I like the two-dimensional planet. It is particularly hilarious that they properly have a young baby telepath called charles and he got controlled by a powerful telepathic brain that controls a planet and in early draft his mother thought he's a mutant and next step in evolution, I mean.

The mind reading/controlling brain thing also reminds me of The 13 1⁄2 Lives of Captain Bluebear, Zamonium. The talking through the red-eyed man reminds me of DW s1 finale, the human-in-the-loop controller.