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By: In Which I Celebrate Diana Wynne Jones Week a Week Late « The Alcove

In Which I Celebrate Diana Wynne Jones Week a Week Late « The Alcove — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:16:48 +0000

[…] Jones fan. And as soon as I’m less sleep-deprived I’m consulting Jenny’s lists (here and here) to see which book I should read next. Oh, hurray for discovering great authors after they’ve […]

By: Diana Wynne Jones Week begins « Jenny's Books

Diana Wynne Jones Week begins « Jenny's Books — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:03:49 +0000

[…] I will pick the two winners on Sunday. If you do not know which books to pick, I refer you here and here, as I have said a few things about a number (but not all) of Diana Wynne Jones’s books and […]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:20:47 +0000

In reply to Simcha. Ack, I missed responding to your comment. Yes, Witch Week is very dark, and I didn't like it the first time I read it either. It resolves rather ambiguously, I think--the first time I read it, I thought, well, this is absurdly optimistic and does not match the tone of the book at all. And then when I reread it I wasn't so sure.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:32:54 +0000

In reply to Memory. What Lloyd Alexander was it? Time Cat? My big sister was a far huger Alexander fan than I was as a kid, but I loooved Time Cat.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:32:21 +0000

In reply to Karenlibrarian.

Wow! I’m happy I could give you the nudge to revisit her. I agree, she deserves way more attention than she receives. They put a lot of her books back into print behind the success of Harry Potter, but then most of them seem to have gone back out of print again. I don’t understand why, when she’s such a superb writer!

(At least part of JK Rowling’s success is the serialization thing. Nobody can resist things in several parts that they have to wait for.)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:30:10 +0000

In reply to Mrs.B.. Great! Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favorites. :)

By: Memory

Memory — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:21:28 +0000

Ooh, I really like the sound of DOGSBODY! (Me=big dog person). I was going to start my DWJ Week book last night, but then I got distracted by Lloyd Alexander. So, tonight!

By: Karenlibrarian

Karenlibrarian — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:20:34 +0000

I have now read or reread THREE DWJ books in the past week, because your postings reminded me how much I love her work, and it’s been so long since I read any! Couldn’t remember if I’d actually read The Lives of Christopher Chant so I read it again. Even better the second time, and now I really want my daughter (world’s biggest Harry Potter fan) to read it. WHY isn’t DWJ as popular as JK Rowling? JKR is great, I love HP, but DWJ just doesn’t get the attention she deserves in this country. It makes me a little sad.

By: Fyrefly

Fyrefly — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:15:24 +0000

In reply to Jenny. Oh, I *love* boarding school stories! I didn't realize that it was one... now it's getting bumped even further up the list!

By: Mrs.B.

Mrs.B. — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:17:21 +0000

Great idea to do a reading week of DWJ. I need a heads up to finally read one of her novels. I’ll try to find Howl’s Moving Castle and read that in time.