* Why did the 2013 YA post-apocalyptic film How I Live Now receive such little attention? Meg Rosoff's novel, on which it was based, won the British Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the American Printz Award for young-adult literature, and I expected there to be considerable excitement about the adaptation (especially with Saoirse Ronan in the lead role). I quite liked the novel, and I thought the film was well worth seeing. Consider it recommended!
* I just used my "Gothic Tradition" course as an excuse to reread Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. So, so good.
* I'm currently reading War Dances, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2010, as I'm gearing up for my interview of Sherman Alexie when he visits Lenoir-Rhyne University later this month. My "Native American Experience" students are reading one of my favorite Alexie novels, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award as well as many other well-deserved honors. I'm so pleased they'll have an opportunity to hear and meet him.
This is making the rounds again, and I thought I'd pass it along in case it's useful.
"Growing moon. Angry cat. Feather on the wind. Autumn comes. The grass dies."
- A Night in the Lonesome October, Roger Zelazny
* I just used my "Gothic Tradition" course as an excuse to reread Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. So, so good.
* I'm currently reading War Dances, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2010, as I'm gearing up for my interview of Sherman Alexie when he visits Lenoir-Rhyne University later this month. My "Native American Experience" students are reading one of my favorite Alexie novels, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which won the National Book Award as well as many other well-deserved honors. I'm so pleased they'll have an opportunity to hear and meet him.
This is making the rounds again, and I thought I'd pass it along in case it's useful.
"Growing moon. Angry cat. Feather on the wind. Autumn comes. The grass dies."
- A Night in the Lonesome October, Roger Zelazny
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The movie looks too dark for me, but I share your puzzlement that something so highly-awarded goes unremarked. :-(
I knew about half the hints on the Google poster, although I always thought of the dash as a minus sign in that context, but the other half are new to me and very welcome!!!!
Thank you as always for the wonderful links and tips and recs--oh my!
The Zelazny book is amazing. It's divided into 31 sections, one for for each day of October, so it would make perfect month-long reading during any month.
It sounds like you use your Amazon wishlist like I use mine. :D
I love your icon! <3
I love informational posters. Informational posters are things that I love.
This poster really was informational. I saw, I read, I learned!
And thanks for the recs! I have put both books on my Amazon wishlist, too. I like Zelazny, although I find the Amber series too long and undisciplined a work. I only read the first two novels.
Happy Wednesday.
ETA: I just bought the Rossoff novel. It was available at a great price on Amazon for the Kindle—only $2.99!
Edited at 2014-03-12 02:40 pm (UTC)
I haven't made it through all of the Amber series either, to be honest. Lonesome October is a standalone, so it's not a long-term commitment! :D
>ETA: I just bought the Rossoff novel. It was available at a great price on Amazon for the Kindle—only $2.99! amedia will want to know this.
Oooh, thanks for this! I'll alert her. I do hope you enjoy it. I love YA dystopian/post-apocalyptic fiction anyway, but I thought it was particularly powerful.