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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/159007-party-shoes-ballet-shoes-and-other-of-noel-streatfeild-s-shoes-books
Jean made a comment in the Wild Things: YA Grown-Up group:
I love all of Streatfeild's books - I've read and reread them over the years. I do find it confusing that they have different titles in the States though - only Ballet Shoes and Tennis Shoes have the word "shoes" in the original title. I've never understood why publishers change titles like that - on several occasions I've pounced on what looked like a new book by a favourite author only to find it was one I'd already read under a new name.
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Jeanvoted on the poll:Just for fun:
Possibly an endless undertaking now that her son Todd is writing them too.
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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/136903-anne-of-green-gables
Jean made a comment in the Wild Things: YA Grown-Up group:
I'm reading this for about the hundredth time. It's one of my comfort books and I carry it around on my pda as well as having hard copies at home. This time I've been thinking about the idea of it being Marilla's story. I'd never noticed before how many of the scenes are actually Anne and Marilla, with a lot of the stories told by Anne to Marilla rather than by the author telling them directly. Nor had I realised that we see directly inside Marilla's head more often than we do Anne's. We know Anne's feelings through her words and actions.
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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/140057-share-your-page-42
Jean made a comment in the Wild Things: YA Grown-Up group:
Glancing back, they saw a small cloud of dust, with a dark centre of energy, advancing on them at incredible speed, while from out the dust a faint "Poop-poop!" wailed like an uneasy animal in pain. Hardly regarding it, they turned to resume their conversation, when in an instant (as it seemed) the peaceful scene was changed, and with a blast of wind and a whirl of sound that made them jump for the nearest ditch, it was on them!
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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/136923-diana-wynne-jones
Jean made a comment in the Wild Things: YA Grown-Up group:
Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favourite authors. It's good to see that a lot of her books have been rereleased in the wake of the Harry Potter boost to children's fantasy in general.
I think I've read everything she's written. One of the things I like about her is that her books are different from each other - they don't have any kind of standard formula. Maybe the fact that she wrote relatively few things that can be called a series is one reason why she hasn't captured as big an audience as other authors? Even the Dalemark Quartet and the Chrestomanci books have a range of different main characters rather than strictly following one person.