Wednesday Reading Meme
What are you currently reading?
The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer: Every author has to have a first book? Sometimes when they're teenagers.
7 Seeds vol 20 by Yumi Tamura. Almost caught up with scans! And have possibly already read the best (or at least, most entertaining) part of this manga.
( spoilers )
The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer: Every author has to have a first book? Sometimes when they're teenagers.
7 Seeds vol 20 by Yumi Tamura. Almost caught up with scans! And have possibly already read the best (or at least, most entertaining) part of this manga.
( spoilers )
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IMO, The Owl Service is Garner's best. Elidor has gorgeous imagery and language use, and some of the most effective and scary "leakage" of magic into the mundane world ever, but the characters are cardboard for the most part, and the only significant female character has no agency: she's there for Plot Reasons.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath are, IIRC, fairly typical of a type of British children's quest fantasy that I used to read heavily as a child. (That still makes them far and away superior to most of the Generic Extruded Fantasy Product.) I think of them as part of a number of now all-but-forgotten British children's/YA fantasy books that came out about that time (mid 1950s-mid 1960s): Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes and The Summer Birds, William Mayne's Earthfasts, The Sleepers by Jane Louise Curry, and Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge. The most famous of of these, and to some extent the heir of the others, was Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" sequence (1965 - 1977).
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