The Ever-Inspirational Oddity of Diana Wynne Jones! #dwj2012

[rockinlibrarian]

Today I'm participating in my first-ever BLOG TOUR, one I absolutely could not pass up. I was bitter I wasn't part of the 50 Years 50 Days WiT tour, seeing as I've been devoting most of my YEAR to blogging about it. I nearly got to post an essay for "What BoB [SLJ's Battle of the Kids' Books] Means to Me," but passed it up because my brain wasn't

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tanita says

[anonymous]

>>But more than that: my own imagination feels more alive after I've been reading Diana Wynne Jones.<<

EXACTLY. What you just said is why her books - and her spirit - remains alive.

Love that you had so much to do, and read Howl anyway. That's the mark of a true reader.

Re: tanita says

[rockinlibrarian]

:D Thank you! I haven't been reading as committedly in the past few months. But then, I haven't been reading DWJ in the past few months.

[slayground]

Three cheers for imagination and inspiration!

[rockinlibrarian]

Yay! Yippie! Hooray!

[slayground]

:)

[elouise82]

Oh, my mouth watered so much for butter pies after reading Tale of Time City. Why is it that magical food items with the word "butter" sound so amazingly good? Hogsmead's butterbeer, Time City's butter pies ... my dad once had butter tea in Tibet and said it was actually quite disgusting (sorry, anyone out there who's had it and loved it - just repeating what I was told), so I'm always skeptical about how good these other butter-foods are. BUT I still want to try them

[rockinlibrarian]

That really says something about DWJ's ability to describe things-- how we're both salivating over this food when we're not even sure what it is. And, you know, butter by itself isn't exactly tasty. Though my daughter has been attempting to eat it rather frequently lately.

In other news, I can't read the word "butter-pie" without getting "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" in my head.

I'm three chapters in to Dark Lord of Derkholm, and I really do have no idea where it's going. But I LOVE how vividly it all comes to life!

[ccwtaylor]

I'm glad you got to take part in this one! And I hope you find Dark Lord as fun as I did1

[rockinlibrarian]

Thanks! It's fun so far! I'm three chapters in!

[ext_414912]

So not only did we come to Diana similarly, we seem to have come to the blog tour similarly. :) Loved reading your enthusiasm for her books (yes--UNIQUE!) and I so agree, I want a 42nd-century butter pie. I always pictured them sort of like some sort of merengue or cream pie. Now that I think about it, though, those have nothing much to do with butter. Oh well, whatever they are, I want one!

[rockinlibrarian]

I always imagined something along the lines of fried ice cream, but warmer. If that makes any sense. Which it doesn't, which is why the things are so hard to describe. The idea that such a combination of taste sensations COULD be wrapped up together in one awesome package is just mouth-watering, even if our logical brains can't quite get around it!