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more rereading: Diana Wynne Jones
Sep. 6th, 2009 03:45 pmFinished reading all the Vorkosigan books; have now been tearing through Diana Wynne Jones books lately--I borrowed The Pinhoe Egg to read for the second time, which of course lead to going backwards and rereading Charmed Life, then Witch Week, and then for some reason straight to The Crown of Dalemark (I should have started at the beginning of the Dalemark Quartet--I have to read them all again now, but Crown is the one you really need to finish with, even when you know the plot quite well already. Going backwards with Dalemark is so painful, because things get worse with each book) and then Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin.
Spoilers for all of these books, under the LJ-cuts; big ones in particular for Crown of Dalemark.
( The Pinhoe Egg / Charmed Life )
( Witch Week )
( Dark Lord of Derkholm / Year of the Griffin )
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meganbmoore talking about the dysfunctional families and bad parenting in some Jones book or books, and wondering if they were all like that. I know I mentioned some of the books with happier families (Archer's Goon, which has a pretty happy family, even taking into account Quentin's personal failings, and Ogre Downstairs, which is not a happy family precisely, but which steadily improves throughout the whole book as the two halves of the family get to know each other better, and as we see the Ogre more clearly, and which ends on a happy note), but I can't remember if I thought to include Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin. ~EDIT: Okay, not only did I mention it, but she even told me she'd read and loved it. Hah. Anyway, I adore that book.~ Dark Lord of Derkholm has what must be like the happiest, most fun family in the entire Jones canon. ( More on Derkholm, and a bit more on Charmed Life. )
( Crown of Dalemark )
Spoilers for all of these books, under the LJ-cuts; big ones in particular for Crown of Dalemark.
( The Pinhoe Egg / Charmed Life )
( Witch Week )
( Dark Lord of Derkholm / Year of the Griffin )
Side note: I remember
meganbmoore talking about the dysfunctional families and bad parenting in some Jones book or books, and wondering if they were all like that. I know I mentioned some of the books with happier families (Archer's Goon, which has a pretty happy family, even taking into account Quentin's personal failings, and Ogre Downstairs, which is not a happy family precisely, but which steadily improves throughout the whole book as the two halves of the family get to know each other better, and as we see the Ogre more clearly, and which ends on a happy note), but I can't remember if I thought to include Dark Lord of Derkholm and Year of the Griffin. ~EDIT: Okay, not only did I mention it, but she even told me she'd read and loved it. Hah. Anyway, I adore that book.~ Dark Lord of Derkholm has what must be like the happiest, most fun family in the entire Jones canon. ( More on Derkholm, and a bit more on Charmed Life. )( Crown of Dalemark )