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Mar. 26th, 2011 05:18 pmDiana Wynne Jones, my favourite author died today. I knew it was coming, she had lung cancer and had stopped treatment about a year ago. I spent the day I found out in tears. I haven't cried today, because I think I accepted it back then.
Diana Wynne Jones wrote a plethora of books, most famous are her Chronicles of Chrestomanci and Howl's Moving Castle series.
I don't really look up stuff on the authors and actors I like, because that's a real Pandora's box. But I did read an interview with her once, where she was pretty interesting. It had stuff like how her dad wouldn't get her books as a kid, and how she wrote because there wasn't a lot of children's fantasy for her kids, and how when she was little she would run around in a church and pretend to be a gargoyle. Fact: I like the last one best.
My favourite book by her was Eight Days of Luke, which triggered a fascination with Norse mythology when I was a child. I passed it down to my step-brother, who was fascinated with how many times Loki's gotten himself knocked up. Er, I mean the fascination with Norse mythology. I haven't shown him Eight Days of Luke yet, I started him on Charmed Life, the first Chrestomanci book. He was excited, he said Cat (visually) sounded just like him, which sent me to wondering about how there needs to be more of that sort of things for all sorts of kids, but then I start digressing.
I guess what I'm muddling about is that Diana Wynne Jones was a pretty cool author. The series I mentioned above are good starting places for her work.
I'm currently reading one of her stories, and I think I'm going to read Time of the Ghost by her next, which I haven't read since I was a child.
Um.
RIP, Diana Wynne Jones. You were neat.
Diana Wynne Jones wrote a plethora of books, most famous are her Chronicles of Chrestomanci and Howl's Moving Castle series.
I don't really look up stuff on the authors and actors I like, because that's a real Pandora's box. But I did read an interview with her once, where she was pretty interesting. It had stuff like how her dad wouldn't get her books as a kid, and how she wrote because there wasn't a lot of children's fantasy for her kids, and how when she was little she would run around in a church and pretend to be a gargoyle. Fact: I like the last one best.
My favourite book by her was Eight Days of Luke, which triggered a fascination with Norse mythology when I was a child. I passed it down to my step-brother, who was fascinated with how many times Loki's gotten himself knocked up. Er, I mean the fascination with Norse mythology. I haven't shown him Eight Days of Luke yet, I started him on Charmed Life, the first Chrestomanci book. He was excited, he said Cat (visually) sounded just like him, which sent me to wondering about how there needs to be more of that sort of things for all sorts of kids, but then I start digressing.
I guess what I'm muddling about is that Diana Wynne Jones was a pretty cool author. The series I mentioned above are good starting places for her work.
I'm currently reading one of her stories, and I think I'm going to read Time of the Ghost by her next, which I haven't read since I was a child.
Um.
RIP, Diana Wynne Jones. You were neat.