I Am A Blank Paper On Which You & Your Magic Wrote A Girl

[redbrunja]

I had to check out Deathless about six times from the library, but I finally finished it.

It’s amazingly well-written… but that’s about all I can say. The best parts have already been excerpted and passed around the internet. Deathless is all about the language; I couldn’t really connect with the characters.

Also, another example of a book (partially) set during the Seige of Leningrad where I love the language and am interested in the place but I can’t connect to the characters.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Of course, I've read opinions that the Orphan's Tales were too distant. "Urchins, While Swimming", a short story and the first Valente I ever read, won me with characters and language: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_12_06/

I will check that out!

I suspect that if a book is easy to see as a movie, it usually isn't well-written as a book, though I can't be certain.)

Well, personally I disagree; I've read some FANTASTIC books that basically played like movies in my head and that I would actually love to see adapted (Sabriel and The Wizard Hunters being two of them).

Only two book fandoms have kept my interest for years: Harry Potter and the Black Magician trilogy. I am less certain of their source materials' quality than I used to be, so quality probably has little to do with my fannishness.

*nods* I feel like same way. For me, the source material has to have something MISSING, something that I really wanted to see, in order for me to get really fannish about it.

[tigerpetals.livejournal.com]

Oh, Sabriel! I loved that trilogy - I should reread, it's been a long time.

For me, the source material has to have something MISSING, something that I really wanted to see, in order for me to get really fannish about it.

This must be it. Not that I never wanted more from books, obviously, but I've usually just finished them quickly and moved on to others if I wasn't satisfied by what I was reading. Maybe that had an effect too - I have to sit down for a set time to finish movies and tv, so more time to pay attention and get attached to wanting something.

I hope you like the story.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I also think that other people being fannish about a show changes how I feel about that show and how I interact with it.

[tigerpetals.livejournal.com]

It very definitely does for me. Often in terms of intensifying reactions that already existed.