Just Right

[ursulav]

Comments

[law_nerd]

A girl who's a wizard with a pet badger? Sold! I want that book.

[ashbet]

Same here

[siliconshaman]

I'd recommend Diane Wynne Jones young wizards & cat wizards series too... if only because she managed to merge string theory, and magic and make it entertaining!

[vr_trakowski]

And HM Hoover and Diane Duane and Charles de Lint (sometimes) and Emma Bull and CS Lewis and and and...

[siliconshaman]

We're not exactly short of a good book to read are we actually...

Wizards and badgers

[hazelchaz]

So is it a real book? Are you illustrating it?

Re: Wizards and badgers

[ursulav]

*laugh* Not yet? Although given the response, apparently a LOT of people want to see a wizard made out of wolves. Maybe I need to write one...

Re: Wizards and badgers

[hazelchaz]

It's possible that the third character shown is an unreliable narrator, and has garbled some of the plot elements.

[starcat_jewel]

ITYM Diane Duane here. Jones has some good stuff too, but not those.

[siliconshaman]

*ack*

Yeah, got those mixed up.. it's embarrassing because I know them both and even talking to them [on the rare occasions that happens IRL] I get the names wrong...

Basically, I just suck at names.

[rusti_knight]

I dig Diane Duane's cat wizards books. You mean there's more than two?

[vr_trakowski]

Ms. Duane was working on a third but I don't think it was completed. But the cat wizard books--if you aren't aware--are a spinoff of her Young Wizards series, which has many volumes. The latter is billed as YA, but don't let that hinder.

[pantstrovich]

Dogsbody was good. I've read some of the others you mentioned too, when I was young, but I read Dogsbody more recently (and Harry Potter too). My favourite of hers is Howl's Moving Castle. I still have some I'm dying to read that I haven't gotten yet, like Hexwood. Diana Wynne Jones is the bomb. She makes such interesting worlds.

[rachelkachel]

Hexwood is awesome. But confusing. Sadly, I think it may be out of print (my local library still has a copy, though.)

[pantstrovich]

That's okay; I'm sure I can find a used copy somewhere. :)

[ellixis]

I can still recite the prophecy poem from the Dark is Rising series. ♥ I also read some adult Tanith Lee in my tweens, and I seem to be none the worse for it; but I suspect my parents might not have let me read a few of those if they'd known what was IN them.