Please read curtana's beautiful post, though it may make you cry, as it did me.

I loved Madeleine L'Engle's work. Strangely, the novels of hers I loved best were not the fantasy series, beginning with A Wrinkle in Time, though that was the first of her books I read and of course the most famous. I thought her best books were the ones in a series of ( Read more... )

I hear, via sartorias, that Lloyd Alexander has died. His books, particularly the Prydain chronicles, brought me great pleasure as a young teen, and introduced me to the Mabinogion and other Welsh legends. I also always loved the semi-autobiographical My Five Tigers, about his cats. He was a gentle, humane, man, and his books reflect that. It always ( Read more... )

I can't believe that it took Entertainment Weekly *blush* to inform me of the death of John Fowles at 79 on November 5th. Did I miss something? Or has he just slipped below everyone's radars these days? The Magus was the first really difficult work that I really got on a level beyond just the plot when I read it at about the age of 17, and ( Read more... )