What I'm Reading
Feb. 2nd, 2019 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readerjaneThe Light Between Worlds finished satisfyingly, but never stopped being so, so sad. It brought back those feelings from my childhood of wanting so badly to go to Narnia, or Middle-Earth, or any of those fictional places, and knowing I never would. So I do recommend this work, with a strong caution of not-when-you're-already-feeling-down.
Tried Firefly - Big Damn Hero again. Still bouncing off of it.
I also seem to be bouncing off The Girl From Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig. I can't quite put my finger on why. A girl who helps her captain navigate between timelines by the magical use of hand-drawn maps? That should be awesome. Will keep trying, at least for awhile.
To the menfolk, I'm reading Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. This was published in 1960, and is holding up reasonably well (though Colin and Susan are displaying a lot of Too Stupid To Live). Also, it strikes me way stronger now at fiftysomething how much the world has changed: these two children, staying with their mom's former nanny, are being allowed to roam the woods freely when the woods are full of copper mines and shafts! Even given the grownups don't know about the evil magical creatures also lurking in those woods, that's... wow.
What I'm really excited to read is the third book of this trilogy, which I just learned about recently. Book two, The Moon of Gomrath, was published in 1963. For all of my childhood, this was a duology. But Garner published a third book, Boneland, in 2012! I find stories where the maturity of the storyteller changes partway through fascinating. Am really looking forward to seeing how a half-century-older Garner rounds out this tale.
Tried Firefly - Big Damn Hero again. Still bouncing off of it.
I also seem to be bouncing off The Girl From Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig. I can't quite put my finger on why. A girl who helps her captain navigate between timelines by the magical use of hand-drawn maps? That should be awesome. Will keep trying, at least for awhile.
To the menfolk, I'm reading Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. This was published in 1960, and is holding up reasonably well (though Colin and Susan are displaying a lot of Too Stupid To Live). Also, it strikes me way stronger now at fiftysomething how much the world has changed: these two children, staying with their mom's former nanny, are being allowed to roam the woods freely when the woods are full of copper mines and shafts! Even given the grownups don't know about the evil magical creatures also lurking in those woods, that's... wow.
What I'm really excited to read is the third book of this trilogy, which I just learned about recently. Book two, The Moon of Gomrath, was published in 1963. For all of my childhood, this was a duology. But Garner published a third book, Boneland, in 2012! I find stories where the maturity of the storyteller changes partway through fascinating. Am really looking forward to seeing how a half-century-older Garner rounds out this tale.
