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Day 22

How about summer books?


I'm going to try and come up with books that aren't summer just because it's scorching out during the book, so let's see...

Magic or Madness (Justine Larbalestier) is dry and scorching in the presence of its magic and the feeling you have about the world, though also opening in an Australian summer, where they make 'em bigger and badder.

Keys to the Kingdom series (Garth Nix) is also one where the feeling of the world and magic and life is sharply lit and dry. His Sabriel books feel that way to, so maybe it's just his style...

though all the Harry Potter books start in the summer, I really thought of those only as fitting in with the Nix series that way. Everything is...not blatant, but you know. Clear-cut. In bright colors and flat textures. The movies are different, because they mess with the lighting a lot, and colors affect my perception of things almost as much as 3-D actors... :P

The Bronze Bow is more like Magic or Madness in that what's going on is subtle, despite the harsh light and open-air staging.

Now that I keep thinking about it, I'm realizing the authors all have this impression on me in all their books--it's part of their writing style that makes that impression on me.
This isn't that strange--textures and colors and lighting come as part of the story in my mind, and style is a huge part of what I perceive in that way.

I~nteresting.

lookit that. They all have summer-dust coloring on their covers, too... Secretly, I really, really love The Chamber of Secrets. Yeah. What secret, right?

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I just finished Batman Beyond's 3rd and last season tonight! Awww, I really liked that end episode. Though I was a bit dubious for how much a flashback it was going to be, and I supposed that's not ideal storytelling, it was cute. And the fakeout of the title of the last episode was relieving, since it didn't really cut off the sassy Batman Terry career...

I probably should do a proper write up of this, but I'm too sleepy right now.

My only complaint about the latest episodes is that in the last big arc they don't let Terry himself get the victory, and the big emotional point of the episode seems a bit flat. If they wrote it before knowing it was one of the penultimate episodes, maybe...no. I think it's too bad they left Terry feeling like he's not the real Batman. Because he is, even if Bruce Wayne is more awesome in his own way.