Comments on: The Door to Time, Pierdomenico Baccalorio https://readingtheend.com/2008/07/03/the-door-to-time-pierdomenico-baccalorio/ before I read the middle Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2008/07/03/the-door-to-time-pierdomenico-baccalorio/#comment-14802 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:26:07 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=96#comment-14802 I actually wondered about the translation thing myself. I may also have been subconsciously unhappy about reading things in translation, which is something I always struggle with – the exception, for some reason, being French books.

I know what you mean about kids’ reading levels. My library recently instituted a policy whereby the kids’ library card can only check out books in the kids’ section. It makes me insane – I’m about to start working on my MLIS, and I know I’m going to be even more frustrated with this policy when I’m interning and stuff at the libraries here.

]]> By: darla d https://readingtheend.com/2008/07/03/the-door-to-time-pierdomenico-baccalorio/#comment-14801 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:17:17 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=96#comment-14801 Thanks for the link! One thing that drives me a bit crazy as a librarian is when parents come in wanting books for their child’s reading level, rather than their maturity level. Not that I’m against kids reading challenging things, but I worry that they will miss out on the books that they will most appreciate at their current age. Yes, you can read them when you’re older, but of course it’s a different experience, as you say.

I do wonder if the writing style that irritated you with this book was a result of the translation from Italian.

And I had forgotten all about King of Shadows – I loved that book!

]]> By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2008/07/03/the-door-to-time-pierdomenico-baccalorio/#comment-14800 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:01:49 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=96#comment-14800 Movies too…There was this Terry Gilliam film called Time Chasers (I think) that I’d’ve loved when I was small – and Labyrinth’s another one. There could have been so much love instead of the extreme weirded-out-ness.

I never cared much about Susan Cooper, but there is one book of hers that I quite liked, probably because it’s all wish-fulfillmenty for me. King of Shadows – did you ever read it? The kid goes back in time and meets Shakespeare! And my recollection is that it’s good.

]]> By: boxofbooks https://readingtheend.com/2008/07/03/the-door-to-time-pierdomenico-baccalorio/#comment-14799 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:40:48 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=96#comment-14799 I’m always running into books I would have loved as a kid. It makes me so sad that I missed Susan Cooper’s books, for example. Now I’m too old to enjoy it, and must instead pick up on sloppy metaphores and unpruned descriptions. So unfair.

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