![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouTiger's Voyage and Tiger's Destiny, by Colleen Houck
Oh, dear. These never did get very good, writing/cultural context/sense-making romance/-wise ... and yet, the various threads were compelling enough that I really did want to see how things would turn out. And was reasonably pleased by how things went.
ere (42, 49)
Ash Mistry and the City of Death, and Ash Mistry and the World of Darkness by Sarwat Chadda
These were as splendid as I expected after reading the first one. Kind of funny to read them close by the Colleen Houcks as they could easily serve as a primer for how to incorporate many of the same legends in a much less ridiculous and more appealing way. I expect I'll eventually read everything Mr. Chadda has written...
(43, 44; O19, O20)
REPAIR for Kids, by Marjorie McKinnon
I hope, fiercely, that no kids you know ever experience sexual abuse. (Though some of you already do know, and/or have been that kid.) That said, my inner kid who has some very-long-ago never-dealt-with-until-now sexual abuse to process was really helped by this book, and I think actual kids would be too. There are a very few strange statements that *really* would have pissed me off when I was actually seven (inner seven-year-old was similarly unimpressed), but, you know, that's why the book's designed to work through for a caregiver to help a kid work through, not just the kid alone. Mostly, it is great.
(45, O21)
The World of Ice and Fire, by George Martin et al
Boring in exactly the right way. Hard to explain what I mean by that! But basically there's a certain sort of hyperfocused fact-packed reference book that I really enjoy - I used to obsessively read Guinness Book of World Records when I was younger, and multiple different encyclopedias - and this is like that, only for the fictional world of The Song of Ice and Fire. I won't remember much of it, but probably the next time I reread the books, bits and pieces of this copious backstory will rise to the surface. The art was pretty tasty too, as fantasy art goes.
(46)
Stone Soup, by Jon J. Muth
A fairly straightforward retelling of one of the stories my mom most liked to read to me as a kid, which I mostly picked up because Jon J. Muth's illustrations are uniformly wonderful. Also it was interestly transposed from Eastern Europe to China. Maybe I will send this one to my mom; I think she would like it too.
(47)
Oh, dear. These never did get very good, writing/cultural context/sense-making romance/-wise ... and yet, the various threads were compelling enough that I really did want to see how things would turn out. And was reasonably pleased by how things went.
ere (42, 49)
Ash Mistry and the City of Death, and Ash Mistry and the World of Darkness by Sarwat Chadda
These were as splendid as I expected after reading the first one. Kind of funny to read them close by the Colleen Houcks as they could easily serve as a primer for how to incorporate many of the same legends in a much less ridiculous and more appealing way. I expect I'll eventually read everything Mr. Chadda has written...
(43, 44; O19, O20)
REPAIR for Kids, by Marjorie McKinnon
I hope, fiercely, that no kids you know ever experience sexual abuse. (Though some of you already do know, and/or have been that kid.) That said, my inner kid who has some very-long-ago never-dealt-with-until-now sexual abuse to process was really helped by this book, and I think actual kids would be too. There are a very few strange statements that *really* would have pissed me off when I was actually seven (inner seven-year-old was similarly unimpressed), but, you know, that's why the book's designed to work through for a caregiver to help a kid work through, not just the kid alone. Mostly, it is great.
(45, O21)
The World of Ice and Fire, by George Martin et al
Boring in exactly the right way. Hard to explain what I mean by that! But basically there's a certain sort of hyperfocused fact-packed reference book that I really enjoy - I used to obsessively read Guinness Book of World Records when I was younger, and multiple different encyclopedias - and this is like that, only for the fictional world of The Song of Ice and Fire. I won't remember much of it, but probably the next time I reread the books, bits and pieces of this copious backstory will rise to the surface. The art was pretty tasty too, as fantasy art goes.
(46)
Stone Soup, by Jon J. Muth
A fairly straightforward retelling of one of the stories my mom most liked to read to me as a kid, which I mostly picked up because Jon J. Muth's illustrations are uniformly wonderful. Also it was interestly transposed from Eastern Europe to China. Maybe I will send this one to my mom; I think she would like it too.
(47)
