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08/15/09
08/14/09
The Henry Sugar:
2 parts Bombay Sapphire
1 part lime-flavored authentic wormwood absinthe (to see without your eyes)
generous portions of club soda and lime grenadine
serve in a teardrop tumbler with a sugar-lined rim
PS: I am saving up to buy your book! for the moment i need to eat and re-read Henry Sugar, but soon my hard earned dollars will be flowing your way. i think i'll order it from my local bookstore, and hopefully they'll order more copies!
08/14/09
08/14/09
As an adult I might have more perspective and less sensitivity to that stuff--Oh, who am I kidding. I still don't watch horror movies.
08/14/09
Hmm, how much more insane could that sound? I could swear it was in a Dahl story that I read pre-10yo, but I've yet to come across it again. Help?
08/14/09
Suggestion suggestion for next FINE LINES: can we look at Eva Ibbotson? I sort of think of her as the mirror image of Roald Dahl - her books are magical, delightful and positive almost in the opposite ways that Dahl's are magical, subversive and oftentimes twisted.
08/14/09
08/15/09
Needless to say, my future children will certainly be getting all my old Dahl books. They do something to your childhood perspective that, looking back, was really valuable.
08/14/09
*scampers off to check it out from the library*
07/31/09
07/31/09
The part when Meg comes over, weeping, and passes on that Molly asked that the baby not come until she's home from the hospital, then Ben passes on the message via shouting through Maria's belly and says, "Maria and I are determined to have an obedient kid" -- that, to me, was everything I wanted in a husband during a difficult situation.
(And I'm happy to say I found him.)
07/31/09
I absolutely agree with your assessment of death in YA lit, Lizzie, but I would like to point out what my copy of the book has under the author's bio:
"Though the book is not autobiographical, facing the death of her only sister when she was young made it possible for [Lois Lowry] to write about the subject with a good deal of understanding."
When I read that last time (I don't believe my original copy of the novel had such an in-depth author bio), I was completely unsurprised. Compared to, say, a Lurlene McDaniel death novel, this book is amazing.
08/01/09
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07/31/09
Yes, the characters are much more mature than normal YA characters, but in a very true way. I love that although Meg feels an inadequacy when comparing herself with her sister, it's not in a way that makes her envious of being beautiful for the sake of being more visible....instead she's envious of the way being beautiful sort of makes life easier for a while.