No complaints though, this was a great book to listen to on audiobook.Story (4/5): This started out super slow but I ended up enjoying it once all the strange fae creatures started appearing. The narrator did speak pretty slow for me, so I ended up listening to this at 1.2x. I borrowed this as an audiobook through Audible Plus.Audiobook Quality (4/5): The narration of this book was very well done and pleasant to listen to. Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. It's difficult to talk about without giving away some of the power of the book, but if you like creepy reads about children and want a dark read, I'd absolutely recommend it. Her ability to bring life to historical characters and settings for middle grade readers of adventurous horror is unmatched as far as I'm concerned, and although I had to take my time in reading this book, I'm so glad I did. As an adult reading it, the gravity of how traumatic these experiences would be for a child-and the way even the fantastical horrors could be seen as translating into real life trauma-added an extra layer of horror to the story, which was already fairly dark.But, all that said, Hardinge is an extraordinary writer. As a child, I'm honestly not sure whether I would have loved the book or felt tortured by it. And I love dark books.but there's a reality to the horror experienced by the children in this book which goes somewhat beyond the page, and there were times when reading it simply became too much for me.
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Randy_byers For many years the only English translation of Lem's great 1961 science fiction novel, Solaris, was based on a French translation of the original Polish. ‘Well, it’s where you’re holding a pen in your hand and then something – someone – takes possession of you and you just write stuff down without knowing what you’re doing.’ ‘Ella,’ she said finally, ‘have you heard of automatic writing?’ ‘What did you mean? Why did you write that?’ The bell went, but as it was home time and we didn’t have another class to go to we stayed in our seats. She was very slightly freaky – not enough to be alarming, just enough to be interestingly different. I guess this was why I liked being mates with her. If it was a joke, I was going to go along with it, although I had no idea what she was up to this time. Or was trying to pretend she’d just seen something amazing and frightening. She had a stunned expression, as if she’d just seen something amazing and frightening. 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He did not appreciate these qualities in Slauerhoff’s poetry as well. The original coplas had no strict formal characteristics, something that was considered ‘too playful’ by De Vries and not in accordance with his own wish to point out an ‘essence’ in poetry. In his translation of the coplas De Vries allowed himself to do anything he wanted with the original text – he was not reluctant to alter even the meaning and form of the poems. De Vries wrote poetry full of dreams and unattainable desires, with little sense of reality, but with a measured form and end rhyme. It was customary that poets thus reviewed each other’s work, before it was handed in for publication. Slauerhoff sent manuscript drafts of his poems to De Vries as well, which were criticized punctually in the letters that his friend sent back to him. |