In Bed With Books
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- Laura: You’re different out of your room.
- Sorry: Well, maybe! I’m very powerful and sexy in there, but the further away I go from my room the meeker I become. At school I hardly exist. Are you hungry?
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Do you have your nominations in yet? You have until October 3rd!
All of mine were accepted! Thanks to morbane and kittydesade for making my Changeover nom as awesome as possible; apple_pathways and meinterrupted for collaborating with me so we could nom as many fairy tale archetypes as possible; and to ambyr for also nominating Curse Workers and helping me fill in my two undecided slots.
✔ Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms :
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✔ Witch (Fairy Tales)
✔ Stepmother
✔ Wolf (Fairy Tales)
✔ Trickster
✔ Curse Workers Series - Holly Black :
Characters
✔ Cassel Sharpe
✔ Lila Zacharov
✔ Chris Wasserman
✔ Barron Sharpe
✔ The Changeover - Margaret Mahy :
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✔ Laura Chant
✔ Sorensen Carlisle
✔ Jacko Chant
✔ Carmody Braque -
Margaret Mahy is, hands down, one of my favorite authors. It is hard to write about how much her words to me, especially since I just learned of her death. The Guardian’s write-up contains this quote: “It is in the nature of books, that they have the capacity to make you feel powerful about what you can alter and achieve in your life[.]” I can think of no more fitting description of her novels. Her legacy is in her readers, who have been transformed by her words.
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Link reblogged from Karen Healey: Writes Things
surroundedbybooks replied to your post: Orange =DI have never read Margaret Mahy. What books are good places to start?
Depends! She has written picture books, short stories, realistic novels, sci-fi, high fantasy, urban fantasy basically you can see one of the many reasons I…
The Changeover and The Tricksters are both, basically, perfect. I wax poetic about The Tricksters here. (Seriously, one of my essays to get into my college honors program was about how everyone should read The Tricksters.)
But for people who prefer contemporary novels, I recommend starting with Margaret Mahy’s Memory. It’s a story of guilt, identity, and healing. Absolute gem of a novel.
