she can't recall what they represent

[cimorene]

apparently mom's all in favor of having alcohol in the house for thanksgiving. fortuitous since we'd just run out of smirnoff ice.

i think eight days of luke is very nearly as good as i remembered it. nahce. with the. thingy. yes. it's nice because that rarely happens with books from one's childhood, does it?

i've eaten a lot and am feeling warm and muzzy. you should see how crowded, how messy our apartment looks. i really, really wish i didn't live here. that i was just visiting too.

Comments

[brancher.livejournal.com]

You found a copy! Excellent. Do you still find it slashable?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

oh, eminently.

most notably:

+staring at luke's sleeping face
+hoping to never see luke's face sad
+seeing that woden really means it about hoping luke wins
+seeing that luke and woden will be on opposite sides in the end
+being sad when he picks up the hammer because he won't be able to look at luke the same way anymore

...and i have a bunny. a minorish one. or possibly two bunny ghosts which might be persuaded to mate and produce a ficlet with both a beginning and an end.

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

DWJ books are ALWAYS as good as you remember them.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

hmm... are they? frequently they're better, but i have to say that castle in the air has depreciated a little bit since i was in first grade. and i remembered the ogre downstairs as more fun than it was, and dogsbody as more dark, and a sudden, wild magic as more impenetrable.

[darksylvia.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, they may be different...and you may get more out of them. But they're always as good.

I agree about The Ogre Downstairs, but Dogsbody has always seemed pretty dark to me, I didn't think Castle in the Air was one of her best in the first place, and A Sudden Wild Magic still seems a little confusing. But she did say that it got a little warped by editor's expectations of writing for adults. She got to do more of what she wanted with Deep Secret.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i'm VERY fond of both aswm and ds. the similarities are obvious, i suppose. and dogsbody isn't precisely light, but it's more adventurey, and less horrific, than it appeared to a nine-year-old or however old i was when i first read it.

i used to love castle in the air though.

odd that it shares its universe with howl's moving castle which is one of my all-time favorites.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

Chris and I just wanted to wish you a happy Thanksgiving, well, as happy as you can be I guess. You know what I mean.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

give him a hug from me. :) feel better.

i'm not UNhappy!