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Mar. 12th, 2022 06:28 pmThe Shadow of a Man: The Cites Obscures series slaps so hard. Franco Belgian comics don’t get translated enough, and this is A Classic thereof, but you look at it and 'go well shit, yeah it certainly is'. The series is SO beautiful, has such a bold sense of world-building, and establishes solid characterisation so economically. The use of colour, how cool every different urban space they use is--cannot say enough good things about this.
The Railway Children: I wasn't at all prepared for Nesbit to be as good as she is. Incredibly strong prose sensibility, plot works great, affecting even if I cannot really imagine a railway baron as a humanitarian. Very worth reading.
The Treasure-Seekers: Another Nesbit, this one was incredibly fun in terms of its narrational conceit, which never stops being funny. Excellent voice.
The final chapter offers weird insight into casual, not very acute common readings of Dickens circa 1900. It also brings in colonialism in a BIG way, as the source of the reparative wealth that fixes the family's issues, and drops the n-word. Between this and the not terrible but awkward Jewish moneylender chapter, I wouldn't recommend this for my niece. Which is a shame because this book is a BOP, those issues aside.
The Railway Children: I wasn't at all prepared for Nesbit to be as good as she is. Incredibly strong prose sensibility, plot works great, affecting even if I cannot really imagine a railway baron as a humanitarian. Very worth reading.
The Treasure-Seekers: Another Nesbit, this one was incredibly fun in terms of its narrational conceit, which never stops being funny. Excellent voice.
The final chapter offers weird insight into casual, not very acute common readings of Dickens circa 1900. It also brings in colonialism in a BIG way, as the source of the reparative wealth that fixes the family's issues, and drops the n-word. Between this and the not terrible but awkward Jewish moneylender chapter, I wouldn't recommend this for my niece. Which is a shame because this book is a BOP, those issues aside.
