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From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:18:40 -0800
Are we being narcissistic when we write of writers? But then, although you can paint painters or photograph photographers, you can't exactly eat chefs or prune gardeners. (Hmm. You can sue lawyers, though. <g>)
My two favorites for defining writerhood:
Emily of New Moon series -- especially Emily's Quest, as she climbs the Alpine Path. What Dean does to Emily, and what it frees in her when she can love her story people again....ouch.... and A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle.
And for expanding and exploding the definitions:
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip - fantasy, but certainly read by YA. The teen protagonist is a translator. Very unique allegory of the weight of the reader's lens.... and Voices by Ursula K Le Guin, which also blends the lines between writer and translator. Amazing work.
-- Maia
Received on Tue 17 Apr 2007 05:18:40 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:18:40 -0800
Are we being narcissistic when we write of writers? But then, although you can paint painters or photograph photographers, you can't exactly eat chefs or prune gardeners. (Hmm. You can sue lawyers, though. <g>)
My two favorites for defining writerhood:
Emily of New Moon series -- especially Emily's Quest, as she climbs the Alpine Path. What Dean does to Emily, and what it frees in her when she can love her story people again....ouch.... and A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L'Engle.
And for expanding and exploding the definitions:
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia McKillip - fantasy, but certainly read by YA. The teen protagonist is a translator. Very unique allegory of the weight of the reader's lens.... and Voices by Ursula K Le Guin, which also blends the lines between writer and translator. Amazing work.
-- Maia
Received on Tue 17 Apr 2007 05:18:40 PM CDT
