Ghosts Ghosts từ Srobotnik pri Vel. Laščah, Slovenia

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2019-11-21 06:30

James and the Giant Peach Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Roald Dahl

Laura Ingalls Wilder with magic. I loved Effie's voice, I loved the family dynamics, and I loved the details and sense of wonder in all the different magical systems (Aphrikan, Hijero-Cathayan, Avrupan and Columbian, in this alternate world history). Edited to add, because I've been thinking about it ever since I finished the book last night (although I wasn't sure how to talk about it, which is why I didn't, at first): the one nit I had with this otherwise-wonderful book was that as a reader, I really, really wanted some good worldbuilding explanation to be *right there* in the text to tell me why there wasn't a Native American presence in this alternate America. (I do think there probably was a good worldbuilding explanation which would go along with all the other major changes in world history and migration that ARE covered in the text - but I believe that mostly because I have faith in Wrede as an author, after reading and loving so many of her books over the years. There wasn't any explanation in the book itself, though, and that felt like a bit of a gaping thread in the tapestry as I was reading.) On the other hand, though (and this is the issue I spent so much of last night thinking about), as a writer myself, I haven't yet been able to think of any practical, plausible technical way she could have slipped in an explanation of that change while maintaining Eff's point-of-view narration, since Eff lives in a world where there never was a Native American presence, so she would never believably sit there thinking about why her world was the way it was and not a completely different way she wouldn't have any reason to imagine. So...in other words, I'm torn on that one point between what I want as a reader and what I can imagine would be practical and possible as a writer. But on the other (third?) hand, I loved that one of the side-effects of this vastly different world-building and changes in world migration was that there got to be multiple strong African-American characters in positions of authority (teaching white children and college students, working as magicians, etc.) in this alternate 19th-century America. Washington Morris (magician, circuit-rider and naturalist), in particular, was one of the most swoon-worthy male characters I've read in a really long time - I have no idea whether Eff will end up with him romantically in future books (there are a couple different romantic possibilities laid out for her by the time this book ends, even though romance is not the focus of Book 1), but he's certainly the one I'd want for myself. (I LOVE relationships partially formed by beautiful letter-writing. Swoon, swoon, swoon!) And when I finished the last page of this book, my first thought was: "I need Book Two NOW."

Người đọc Ghosts Ghosts từ Srobotnik pri Vel. Laščah, Slovenia

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.