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From: JDUPRAU at aol.com <JDUPRAU>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:18:52 EDT
Reading these posts makes me want to be a child again, bringing home stacks of treasure from the library every week. I loved so many of the books that have been mentioned--The Moffats, The Saturdays, The Borrowers, The Narnia books, Mary Poppins, The Secret Garden, Doctor Dolittle, the Jungle Books--no need to repeat them all, I guess, though it's fun to do so.
I've also been thinking about the influences that show up in my own writing, since I've been reading over The City of Ember, getting ready to write the last in the series. In the names of my characters I see the influence of Dickens, whom I started reading in junior high and adored. In Granny's yarn shop I see the sheep in the wool shop in Alice in Wonderland (or was that Through the Looking Glass?). In the whole notion of undergroundness, I see one of my great favorites, Tom Sawyer--the part about being lost in the cave, and also Alice, and also a Little Golden Book called Chip-Chip the Chipmunk, which had pictures of complicated underground tunnels. The whole concept of getting out of one's own world and into another one fascinated me both in fantasy and science fiction and has obviously influenced my writing (although in my book they get out of another world and into this one), and--to get back to the topic--my writing has certainly changed my life.
Jeannie
Received on Wed 24 May 2006 11:18:52 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:18:52 EDT
Reading these posts makes me want to be a child again, bringing home stacks of treasure from the library every week. I loved so many of the books that have been mentioned--The Moffats, The Saturdays, The Borrowers, The Narnia books, Mary Poppins, The Secret Garden, Doctor Dolittle, the Jungle Books--no need to repeat them all, I guess, though it's fun to do so.
I've also been thinking about the influences that show up in my own writing, since I've been reading over The City of Ember, getting ready to write the last in the series. In the names of my characters I see the influence of Dickens, whom I started reading in junior high and adored. In Granny's yarn shop I see the sheep in the wool shop in Alice in Wonderland (or was that Through the Looking Glass?). In the whole notion of undergroundness, I see one of my great favorites, Tom Sawyer--the part about being lost in the cave, and also Alice, and also a Little Golden Book called Chip-Chip the Chipmunk, which had pictures of complicated underground tunnels. The whole concept of getting out of one's own world and into another one fascinated me both in fantasy and science fiction and has obviously influenced my writing (although in my book they get out of another world and into this one), and--to get back to the topic--my writing has certainly changed my life.
Jeannie
Received on Wed 24 May 2006 11:18:52 AM CDT
