Bookwise 2025/3: what was read and what's to-be-read. calmgrovebooks.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/wise3
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Doing exactly what she wanted: #MarchMagics2025
Japanese poster of Studio Ghibli’s ‘Āya and the Witch’. Earwig and the Witch by Diana Wynne Jones. Illustrated by Paul O Zelinsky. Greenwillow Books, 2012 (2011). “Got the o…
‘Everard’s Ride’ (1995), a novella first written in 1966 by
#DianaWynneJones, reviewed for
#MarchMagics2025https://wp.me/sezD85-everard
The thinnest interface #MarchMagics2025
11th-century carving on north door, Urnes Stave Church, Norway. ‘Everard’s Ride’ (1995), in Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories by Diana Wynne Jones. Greenwillow Books, 2004.¹ It&…
April Rainers
© C A Lovegrove. Hexwoodby Diana Wynne Jones.Collins, 2000 (1993). Here’s another twisty plot from the girl Jones, somewhat similar to wandering around a curiously managed patch of spring woo…
My review of the
#Discworld novella 'Eric' by Terry Pratchett for
#MarchMagics2025.
https://wp.me/pezD85-h2
To hell … and back? #MarchMagics2025
Detail of Hell from a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch. Eric by Terry Pratchett. No 4 in the Rincewind series, Discworld No 9. Gollancz, 2023 (1990). Eric was nearly in tears. ‘But it said her fa…
My review of 'Black Maria' ('Aunt Maria' in the USA) by
#DianaWynneJones, reposted for
#MarchMagics2025https://wp.me/s2oNj1-maria
The queen and her coven
Black Maria (Aunt Maria in the USA)by Diana Wynne Jones,illustrated by Paul Hess.HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2000 (1991). But it’s no good thinking happy endings just happen. —…
In a Time of War - In which I consider some wartime stories by Lissa Evans and Diana Wynne Jones for #MarchMagics2025
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#BookSky
https://enterenchanted.com/in-a-time-of-war-marchmagics2025/
In a Time of War #MarchMagics2025
This month, looking for something to keep my mind off current events, I came across author Lissa Evans in my TBR. Some time ago I had enjoyed a movie based on one of her novels, Their Finest, and w…
Thinking of everything
A Tale of Time Cityby Diana Wynne Jones.Greenwillow Books / Harper Trophy, 2001 (1987). And it seemed to be true that all your life came flooding into you mind in your last moments. She thought of …
Many avenues to explore
Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.Mammoth, 1990 (1985). Fire and Hemlock is one of Diana Wynne Jones’ more haunting books, with characters, situations and references that linger long after a fi…
My review of Diana Wynne Jones's fantasy 'Archer's Goon' reposted for
#MarchMagics2025.
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-goon
Once and Future
There and Back Again Lane, Clifton, Bristol © C A Lovegrove. Archer’s Goon by Diana Wynne Jones. Illustrated by Paul Hess. HarperCollins Children’s Books 2000 (1984). Written and publis…
Christopher Lovegrove
Lory Widmer Hess