Among Others
Feb. 25th, 2011 11:54Happy birthday, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
inkstone!
Walton, Jo. Among Others. New York: Tor Books, 2011.
I've quite enjoyed Jo Walton's other books that I've read, but this one is in many respects on a whole different level. I think just about anyone reading this journal would like it; it's about, well, a lot of things, life and death and growing up and being too old for your age and reading and being strange and most of all about reading SFF.
It's set in 1979 and 1980; Mori Phelps, after the death of her sister, has run away from home and been reunited with her father, who abandoned the family when she and her sister, also Mor, were quite small. Her father's English sisters pack Mor off to their alma mater Arlinghurst, where Mor, who has a disability which makes it impossible to play sports, spends most of her time in the library writing the journal that forms the book in mirror-hand and reading all the SFF books she can get her hands on, with a sprinkling of classics mixed in.
( It sounds kind of overdetermined, but it's not, it's wonderful. )
inkstone!Walton, Jo. Among Others. New York: Tor Books, 2011.
I've quite enjoyed Jo Walton's other books that I've read, but this one is in many respects on a whole different level. I think just about anyone reading this journal would like it; it's about, well, a lot of things, life and death and growing up and being too old for your age and reading and being strange and most of all about reading SFF.
It's set in 1979 and 1980; Mori Phelps, after the death of her sister, has run away from home and been reunited with her father, who abandoned the family when she and her sister, also Mor, were quite small. Her father's English sisters pack Mor off to their alma mater Arlinghurst, where Mor, who has a disability which makes it impossible to play sports, spends most of her time in the library writing the journal that forms the book in mirror-hand and reading all the SFF books she can get her hands on, with a sprinkling of classics mixed in.
( It sounds kind of overdetermined, but it's not, it's wonderful. )