Books 2014 - The Body in the Clouds by Ashley Hay
I'm getting behind again - there'll be more books today, I suspect, now that I have my (unfixed) laptop back from the uselessness of PC World's repair shop (by the end of the week... we'll call you to let you know where it's up to in a couple of days if you like... - it hadn't been touched when I finally followed up the two phone calls I made by
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I really liked the concept of this too, and the overall theme and story turned out to be just right... I expect you have a huge list of to-read books, but as long as I get it back, I'm happy to lend! *g*
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I've posted comments on Goodreads on books I've read; sometimes they agree with others, sometimes not, but it's always interesting to read what others think about a book.
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People always have different opinions about things of course, and I do like reading them and can usually see where they're coming from - but I was really surprised about some of the comments on this book! I opened a goodreads account once, but didn't like the way the whole thing was formatted in the end, and never used and eventually deleted it... I do read other people's comments, though, usually via googling for a book...
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I wonder - have you read any Alan Garner? Particularly his later ones, which often involve the same place or situation, approached through events in more than one time? Something like Red Shift - or perhaps the one which I haven't read, which is actually set in Australia? From what you say, you might like those, although his writing style is much much more compressed. You have to really slow down to read it.
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As far as I am aware, he's not in Australia; rather, he's still where he grew up, in Alderley Edge. I believe his house is in an area where land is now so valuable (because of footballers etc moving into the area) that he has made arrangements that on his death, it will not become yet another Des Res but instead become the property of a charitable trust, because there is history in every line of it.
But yes, Strandloper is the one I was thinking of, and it's one I haven't read either, but I have read about it, because he discusses it in his book of essays and lectures, The Voice That Thunders. That is a brilliant, fabulous, fantastic collection, btw, and explains a lot about him and his work, and you should definitely read that, but it's out of print and I lent my copy out and I strongly suspect the recipient has lost it. Waah.
One thing I remember him saying (writing?) wrt to Strandloper was about the Australian aborigines (I'm sorry, I can't remember whether that's the term he uses or whether he refers to ( ... )
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I've heard about The Voice that Thunders, but not read it - I shall have to find a copy (hmmn, Amazon doesn't seem to think it's out of print, that's good!) The Aboriginal/story is interesting - there's some interesting views on the ownership of stories in other cultures (we assume that stories are free and wild things unless commerce gets its hands on them, but actually various cultures also think stories can be owned (if not necessarily commercially) and shouldn't in fact be freely told to anyone who asks... There's absolutely nothing in that idea that resonates with me, but I've a sort of morbid fascination to find out more, so thanks for adding another angle to my research, via Garner ( ... )
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