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[labellementeuse]

What I wrote about the late Diana Wynne Jones on my blog this morning. What a huge loss to the genre (and a much worse loss, of course, to her family and friends).

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[dustyasymptotes]

What a lovely piece! I read my first book of hers in grade six and have just converted that edition's cover into an icon in commemoration. It's remarkable how spooky I found it at the time. I think she's a real master at conveying the disconcertingly anarchic fantastic teeming under/with the cover of every day life.

What Terry Pratchette is to many people's formative adolescent experience, Diana Wynne Jones was to mine.

[birke]

Witch Week was the first book I read as well! I was just looking at the chronology on Wikipedia and was amazed to see that it had been written in 1982. I read it in 1995 -- and many times thereafter -- and it really it felt timeless, not dated.