Topic: November 2005
MR Miscellany
[11.15.05]
• Has anyone read these children's
books?
If you have, let
me know what you thought
After The Darkness by Michael Smith (YA fiction)[11.11.05]
Ghost Train by Paul Yee (picture book, ages 4-8)
Is Anybody Listening? by Larry O'Loughlin (YA fiction)
• Brotherly love helps in times of trouble
Read about Yu Hua's latest book, Brothers
from China Daily. "For one moment we will even wonder whether these scenes could really have happened because they are so absurd. In the next moment we will be convinced because his narration retains the magical realist quality the strange mixture of absurdity and tragedy is another prominent characteristic of Yu's writing."
[11.06.05]
• Here's a nice discussion of French magical realist
and visual artist, Rikki Ducornet
from The Buffalo News. "While living in a
village in provincial France in her mid-30s, a fully
formed narrative voice emerged from her imagination.
Ducornet began writing the tale of a young girl born
in that same village a century earlier with a
mysterious, hare-shaped birthmark that was believed
by local clerics and townspeople to be the mark of
the devil."