News: Dark is Rising Readathon

[caffienekitty]

And now for something completely different...

A 40th Anniversary/Lifetime Achievement commemoration Worldwide Readathon of Susan Cooper's classic fantasy novel series "The Dark is Rising Sequence" is set to begin on December 7th, 2013 with the first book "Over Sea, Under Stone

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Oh wow!

[charis_kalos]

This is one of my all-time favourite children's fantasy series. And I remember the excitement I felt when studying King Arthur at uni to discover that the 'Loomis' name-checked at the end of Over Sea, Under Stone was a real Arthurian scholar. I am definitely in.

Re: Oh wow!

[caffienekitty]

Awesome!

[lurkingwombat]

Hey there
I wanted to thank you for posting this. I signed up on FB as did J. She is currently on Greenwitch and I finished them the other day. I also thanked the people who came up with the idea :)
Now, because i didn't feel like leaving Wales just yet, I am re-reading the Prydain books by Alexander :) I mentioned this on the FB page and it looks like a few people there are going to re-read this series as well :)
hugs
L.W.

[caffienekitty]

There you go, instigating things internationally now.

I'm following along at the pace that will still let me do my annual holiday re-read of Dark Is Rising starting close to the solstice and then carrying on at the pace of the story, so I'm progressing slowly through OSUS still.