I loved this story. It captured childhood loss and wonder perfectly. This one has stuck with me. #fiction#speculativefiction#magicalrealism#writing
TIL! Thanks! Yeah, someone could definitely get the wrong idea on what Prachett writes from that blurb.
I haven’t looked it up, but this may have been the previous book he published when Small Gods was released.
I read this in 2021 when a lot of the world was still locked down and I was so thankful I had no where to go because I could not put it down. One of my favorite reads of all time. Connie Willis is a wonderful storyteller.
Imo, Shakespeare is really meant to be seen, not read. He didn’t write for a reader to read it, but for the actors to perform it. Even better at an outdoor venue, in my experience. Plays aren’t great reading material. They’re instruction manuals for performance.
Honestly this is a great marker of how far we’ve come. If the younger generation has to ask if something that traumatic was so prevalent then it means it’s not as strong now. We still have a long way to go in terms of policing people’s bodies, but I’m so thankful we’re not 1999 about this anymore.