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x_los Wintersmith:
- Leave it to a guy writing YA to not make 'the spirit of winter becomes infatuated with a human girl' even a bit sexy. It's just not an idea that would have occurred to a woman handed that brief. Tiffany is a bit flattered by her swain's power and attention, but seduced she decidedly is not. That is just not on the table. A shame, because that would have added a compelling dimension to her moral issues, her Bildungsroman and the final conflict. (Katy also points out that it's odd to seed Tiffany transforming into summer, but then to hardly use that.)
- Katy found the opening weird, but thought it worked out somewhat in the end. I don't think it did much, honestly, other than undercut the pacing and emotional flow a bit.
- She also found the end, where Rob Anybody defeats the books, charming. She felt similarly about Annagramma's not-quite-reform arc and Miss Treason's sections, particularly those involving this book's treatment of D/death. (Katy has perviously observed that all Tiffany Aching books are about death.)
- She also finds the build-up here with Roland particularly annoying, because the subsequent book revokes its promise so severely.
- We both thought this was a pretty solid book.
Amo a mi mama:
- A very rudimentary bilingual Spanish/English children's book I read. I need to finish my backlogged German practice, get back to Spanish, and start reading a lot more thereof. I have my sights on more challenging dual-facing material after I get through a few more of these little ones (thanks to Hoopla/my US library card).
- Leave it to a guy writing YA to not make 'the spirit of winter becomes infatuated with a human girl' even a bit sexy. It's just not an idea that would have occurred to a woman handed that brief. Tiffany is a bit flattered by her swain's power and attention, but seduced she decidedly is not. That is just not on the table. A shame, because that would have added a compelling dimension to her moral issues, her Bildungsroman and the final conflict. (Katy also points out that it's odd to seed Tiffany transforming into summer, but then to hardly use that.)
- Katy found the opening weird, but thought it worked out somewhat in the end. I don't think it did much, honestly, other than undercut the pacing and emotional flow a bit.
- She also found the end, where Rob Anybody defeats the books, charming. She felt similarly about Annagramma's not-quite-reform arc and Miss Treason's sections, particularly those involving this book's treatment of D/death. (Katy has perviously observed that all Tiffany Aching books are about death.)
- She also finds the build-up here with Roland particularly annoying, because the subsequent book revokes its promise so severely.
- We both thought this was a pretty solid book.
Amo a mi mama:
- A very rudimentary bilingual Spanish/English children's book I read. I need to finish my backlogged German practice, get back to Spanish, and start reading a lot more thereof. I have my sights on more challenging dual-facing material after I get through a few more of these little ones (thanks to Hoopla/my US library card).
