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| emner | | meldinger | siste melding | | | 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : RebeccaAnn's Reading: Part Deux | | 189 | flissp, I dag 7:08am |  |
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Ah, so she probably places Witch Week ahead in time of The Magicians of Caprona - interesting.
I think I probably agree with DWJ in reading Charmed Life ahead of all the other Chrestomanci stories, even if The Lives of Christopher Chant is about the young Chrestomanci - being the first ... ... strictly speaking, The Lives of Christopher Chant is chronologically before Conrad's Fate, then Charmed Life, then, The Magicians of Caprona, Witch Week and The Pinhoe Egg (which can't be pinned down in the timeline particularly, but were written in that order). That said, I read ... ... reading now ;)) Which was the audiobook you listened to? ...and may I recommend Fire and Hemlock, Archer's Goon, The Magicians of Caprona, Howl's Moving Castle, The Time of the Ghost, The Spellcoats... (better stop...)
I like the sound of Alanna - I shall have to ... ... fan and read everything of hers I could lay my hands on and was never disappointed. I'm pretty sure that first book was The Magicians of Caprona.
starsmending has just created an LT group for fans of Diana Wynne Jones http://www.librarything.com/groups/dianawynnejones
I've only read one ... ... hands on. I just put The Lives of Christopher Chant on my daughter's ipod as she listens to it over and over along with The Magicians of Caprona. Most of her books were published in the early 1980s and republished when Harry Potter fever was running high. ... Diana Wynne Jones
2. The Lives of Christopher Chant – Diana Wynne Jones
3. Conrad's Fate – Diana Wynne Jones
4. The Magicians of Caprona – Diana Wynne Jones
5. Witch Week – Diana Wynne Jones
6. The Pinhoe Egg – Diana Wynne Jones
7. Mixed Magics – Diana Wynne Jones
8. ... ... the names were confusing and I just didn't care about the characters, so I put it away. Just not for me.
But I do love The Magicians of Caprona. I'm still reading Men at Arms and I'm going to start Magic Lost, Trouble Found, the first in a new fantasy series. I hope it's good! #126, Oh! The Tale of Genji is somewhere on my to read pile too!
I've finished The Magicians of Caprona last Saturday, but that's all the reading I've done this weekend. ^-^ finished a book :-)
book #31 De tovenaars van Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
translation of The Magicians of Caprona
from the library, YA fantasy
Last of the Crestomanci books.
Two rivaling magician families in Italy fight eachother for two centuries. But they have to work together ... ... #33 Grass for his pillow by Lian Hearn (msg 80)
book #32 Across the nightingale floor by Lian Hearn (msg 48)
book #31 The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones (msg 34)
book #30 Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones (msg 16) ... they're all for children really), although it's chronologically after 1 and 2, I'd be inclined to read it first.
4) The Magicians of Caprona - two rival magical dynasties compete with each other, but have to pull together when the city comes under threat.
5) Witch Week - ... ... Changeover - she's always my first port of call when I need a comfort read), but I am going to limit myself to seconding The Magicians of Caprona as one of the best Chrestomanci books - but actually most of that particular series are fantastic (Witch Week, The Lives of Christopher Chant... ... ... are still the standalone Fire and Hemlock and The Time of the Ghost, but I love the Chrestomanci books, especially The Magicians of Caprona - a very, very funny re-telling of the feuding-families-brought-together trope. I haven't read any of the Howl books though.
A friend of mine is ... ... Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones (although torn between this, Archer's Goon, Howl's Moving Castle, The Magicians of Caprona and Deep Secret. I love Diana Wynne Jones
9) Pyramids - Terry Pratchett (again, torn between this and Dark Side of the Sun)
... ... is falling off rather; her earlier stuff was brilliant - I loved the Chrestomanci novels, and A Tale of Time City and The Magicians of Caprona. ... written, but my favourites that I read time and time again are these (in no particular order):
Howl's Moving Castle
The Magicians of Caprona
The Homeward Bounders
Deep Secret
The Lives of Christopher Chant
Archer's Goon and
Power of Three
Although Charmed Life also ... ... the years I have collected three books by Diana Wynne Jones, none of which I have gotten around to reading. They are: The Magicians of Caprona, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, and The Dalemark Quartet. I also own The Hollow Kingdom which is one of my favorite books, but I forgot to ... ... because the time gaps in the story are so large and most are about different characters entirely... Witch Week and the Magicians of Caprona always seemed very separate to me, when I read them as a child I didn't even connect them as a series in my mind.
This will be a never-ending ... ... her Chrestomanci series. I believe the original ones in that series are Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Magicians of Caprona, and Witch Week...(I think that is the correct order to read them in, although they aren't so closely related that you can't read them out of ... ... to crime for a while, or maybe some more adult fantasy. I do have a few Diana Wynne Jones books waiting for me. I think The Magicians of Caprona is next in line by her, unless I go for Deep Secret instead. So far my favorite book by her is Dark Lord of Derkholm and the sequel Year of ...
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