garden and a book recommendation
Aug. 14th, 2009 07:55 pmWe have an eggplant growing! ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
angie_frazier is right, they do look strange when they grow.
I love my library, have I mentioned that? And I love being part of the children's writers' community I have all kinds of books on hold and I'm going to be the first to read them! Yay!
Aside from books by people I know, I also just read, you know, books that look good. I picked up Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish (and sequels Troll Mill and Troll Blood) and am really enjoying them. It's set in medieval times sometime around the time of the Vikings/discovery of Vinland, but the characters are very accessible to modern readers. There are fantastical creatures like trolls and a house spirit called a Nis, but they are all very ordinary; things everyone knows are real. Best of all, the characters are very protaggy. In the first one, 12-year-old Peer gets taken from his father's funeral to live with his evil uncles who run a mill at Trollsvik, out by Troll Fell. They have a nefarious plan for him, as well as the friendly girl down the road, Hilde. There are a number of people in Hilde's family, and it's a pleasant surprise that they all have their own personalities and are easy to keep track of (well, there are twins with nearly identical names, but apart from that...) In the second book Peer is about 15, and about a year old (or two) in the third. They are shelved in the MG section of my library, but they are sort of that tween borderline age.
Next up is Heather Brewer's Tenth Grade Bleeds.
angie_frazier is right, they do look strange when they grow. I love my library, have I mentioned that? And I love being part of the children's writers' community I have all kinds of books on hold and I'm going to be the first to read them! Yay!
Aside from books by people I know, I also just read, you know, books that look good. I picked up Troll Fell by Katherine Langrish (and sequels Troll Mill and Troll Blood) and am really enjoying them. It's set in medieval times sometime around the time of the Vikings/discovery of Vinland, but the characters are very accessible to modern readers. There are fantastical creatures like trolls and a house spirit called a Nis, but they are all very ordinary; things everyone knows are real. Best of all, the characters are very protaggy. In the first one, 12-year-old Peer gets taken from his father's funeral to live with his evil uncles who run a mill at Trollsvik, out by Troll Fell. They have a nefarious plan for him, as well as the friendly girl down the road, Hilde. There are a number of people in Hilde's family, and it's a pleasant surprise that they all have their own personalities and are easy to keep track of (well, there are twins with nearly identical names, but apart from that...) In the second book Peer is about 15, and about a year old (or two) in the third. They are shelved in the MG section of my library, but they are sort of that tween borderline age.
Next up is Heather Brewer's Tenth Grade Bleeds.
