"I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things connects them to you, being in the world connects you to the world, the sun streams down magic and people and animals and plants grow from sunlight and the world turns and everything is magic" (294).Everything IS magic, inc...
Every time I come to Goodreads I think: You still need to write a review of Among Others. Why haven't you reviewed this book yet. I mean finished it when, over a month ago. And I'm STILL THINKING ABOUT IT. ALL THE TIME. But I don't even really know how to talk about it, or how to explain what I like...
Wow -- what an amazing, heartfelt read. Great story, feels entirely real... and then there are the little interesting things like fairies, the main characters obsession with SF, her complicated mother (and perhaps more complicated father).I'm less than half-way through, and I'm in love with this bo...
I liked this book significantly more than I expected, from the descriptions I’d read. I’d also only read one Jo Walton book before, and felt a bit lukewarm about it – but ‘Among Others’ kept winning awards and garnering praise; so I suggested it for my book club. Technically, this is a fantasy novel...
I loved almost every sentence, and I really thought I wouldn't. As the author herself comments about teen coming-of-age stories, they're usually moralistic and everything works out in the end. Boooooring.I was immediately captivated by Mor's reading list - she's read practically everything I had at ...
What a fantastic love letter this is to those who grew up loving books far more than the people who populated the tiny ripples of their shallow aged pond. Walton surely shows her knowledge of the subject, but she also warmingly shows that the world and the people in it have quite the capacity to get...
Quotes:"Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization." (p.59)"Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hear...
Much of this story is inferred, which was irritating at times - I kept coming back to this one. Enjoyed the discussion of older SF. Not sure why it was set in the late seventies - to limit the books available? Recommended by the Book-a-Day calendar.
As seen on Stumptown Books.Actual rating: 3.5This was a strange one. I feel like I am exactly the target audience: I was a quiet girl in high school and was never without a novel to read, and also kept a diary. This book was made for the 15-year-old me. And yet, it still didn't quite hit the mark it...
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