Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

I enjoyed a book about a world where people had various colour blindness...what a feeble attempt at one line synopsis!)

http://www.jasperfforde.com/grey/grey1.html


This on. That's been bugging me all day and I've been flipping through book lists with no clue trying to remember it. Its very light, but I was able to suspend disbelief. I ask that from a book. It makes me happy.

vivatifosi

Lir, another quick thought on children's fantasy. Did you ever try the Weirdstone of Bringsamen by Alan Garner, or The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater? These and the Narnia chronicles were my favourites when younger.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Weirdstone of Bringsamen by Alan Garner, or The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater? .

Former sounds familiar certainly...I shall track it down and read or re-read! The latter I do not think I know, so YIPPEE, new books.

misskool

something very exciting is happening to me in 2.5 days

mostlycheerful

misskool wrote: »

something very exciting is happening to me in 2.5 days

Ooh er, that sounds nice, hope it lives up to your expectations. Will you maybe reveal what it is when it happens? We all love a mystery, that's filled up my little brain with interesting thoughts (nice ones, by the way!)...the specific 2.5 days, not just 2 days is an interesting little bit as well...mmm, what can it be...ah, of course, maybe a nice new job...or, going on holiday...or cashing in your winning lottery ticket, yes, I'm boggling away here...

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

something very exciting is happening to me in 2.5 days

So Monday morning.

New job?

Davesnave

vivatifosi wrote: »

Lir, another quick thought on children's fantasy. Did you ever try the Weirdstone of Bringsamen by Alan Garner, or The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater? These and the Narnia chronicles were my favourites when younger.

Garner's books were all the rage when I started teaching. 'Weirdstone' is a good romp, as is the sequel, which I preferred, 'Moon of Gomrath.' Also enjoyable was 'Elidor,' which mixes modern day and ancient lore/magic effectively in a spooky way, though the sexual symbolism at the end was (fortunately) completely missed by my 10 year olds!

The problem was, Garner didn't keep churning the same old book out, so younger kids who attempted to move on to 'The Owl Service' got a bit of a shock. By the time he got to 'Red Shift' he'd left a lot of his adult audience behind too!

Then Garner went all arts & crafts and produced the Stone Book Quartet, a deceptively simple set historical stories, possibly about his forebears. To my mind, they're the best thing he did.

I read to my class every day for the first twenty years of my teaching career, and I still fitted a lot in after that, but it was harder. I'd do all the voices too, which meant I had to know the book pretty well. Never did get the Geordie accent for Westall's 'Machine Gunners' though, so it had to be relocated to Yorkshire!:rotfl:

vivatifosi

Davesnave wrote: »

Also enjoyable was 'Elidor,' which mixes modern day and ancient lore/magic effectively in a spooky way, though the sexual symbolism at the end was (fortunately) completely missed by my 10 year olds!

Goes straight to the top of my "re-read as an adult" list:o.

vivatifosi

Good luck with your exciting new project in 2.5 days misskool!

tomterm8

michaels wrote: »

And I would say don't read Terry Pratchett, it has become more and more patchy and isn't really escape in to another world because it is too 'arch' and knowing in an airplane sort of way.

Hm, you don't go for the latter ones, though, you read the color of magic, and pyramids, maybe the witches trilogy. It's like Anne McCaffrey, the earlier books are much better than the latter books.