A reaction, not a review. I think I did the right thing. I just spent a few weeks re-reading The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Moon of Gomrath, Elidor, Red Shift, The Owl Service and Thursbitch, because I felt that I needed to take a run up to Boneland. If you're expecting Boneland to be what it...
an impressionistic tale of three teens reenacting a deadly eternal triangle in a welsh village. strange yearnings and mysterious motivations are anchored by enjoyably prosaic dialogue, the oddly off-kilter use of slang, and a sharp but subtle sense of warfare between the classes. a nicely clean a...
Сначала я решительно не любила эту книгу, потому что она провисала по сравнению с первой очень ощутимо, а в формате детской книжки это провисание, нескладный путающийся сюжет и все остальное - почти как смертоубийство, потому что объем не позволяет автору выбраться. К счастью, Алана Гарнера не зр...
Reading this at the end of the sixties, fresh from the enjoyment of The Lord of the Rings, I felt confused and slightly underwhelmed. Despite its nod to Arthurian legend (sleeping king, Wild Hunt, sage wizard) and genuine sense of menace I missed the complexity of Tolkien’s saga, with its multipl...
Elidor is a children’s fantasy story that is set in the modern world, or at least the world of sixties England, when it was written. Four children find a way to travel to another world, and enter on a quest for treasures to save this world. Later, the other world, (Elidor), bleeds into ours, putt...
If you have read any of Garner's other collections of folk-tales you will know more or less what to expect here. There are only five stories in this short book they range from 10 to 35 pages in length, they are all originally Gaelic stories. Garner in his introduction explains that with these s...
It was going to be a hot day, but now it was cold.Wicked Winnie was made of oak planks and the frame of a bassinet. Robert had mounted a swivel on the front wheels, and fixed a length of sashcord, so that he could steer her.He went down the path to the road, set himself, heeled along twice and pu...
said David. “You need locking up.” “I didn’t know what it was,” said Roland. “And you wouldn’t listen to me. I had to show you. It’s Nick’s fault as much as mine.” “You’re so mad keen to be proved right, you’d do anything, wouldn’t you?” said David. “Save your breath,” said Nicholas. “We’ve got t...