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I wanted to reread some DWJ because well obviously. But she's not a happy writer, and my experience with Fruits Basket last weekend suggests that my internal digestion is too delicate these days for anything dark and edged. Nonetheless yesterday I went to the library where I recalled seeing at least three books of hers I hadn't read. Only one was in-- other people having the same memorial urges as myself, maybe?-- and I got it as a break from this month's English reading of improving Buddhist literature and self-help handbooks.

The book was Enchanted Glass and I liked it very much. Nice adults, competent people, and a happi endo. Very manga-like and very un-DWJ. (Dead grandmothers are manga to me. Ze and... Kohri no Mamono, was it?)

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Unrelated, other than by fact that this at the top of my flist...

Would you be interested in and feeling up to a therapeutic puppy visit this weekend? (We have a "socialization scavenger hunt" to do that wants us to take puppy to visit 2 friends in their homes.) No worries, if you're not, just thought we'd ask. ^_^

Would Archer's Goon work for you in this situation?

Enchanted Glass is a nice one, yes, and neat.

Yes, definitely. ("Socialization scavenger hunt"? Is this part of Pup Training?) Whenever's good for you, though Sunday's better than Saturday usually.

Probably not that well. I recall it as head-twisty, with the trademark dysfunctional DWJ parents and unpleasant Beings. It's the lack of normal people that makes her books give me the fantods so badly.

As I said to chomiji above, it's one of the few with (psychologically) normal and likable people in it.

Cool! :) Yes, part of "Family Dog Obedience" (level 1) class. I shall discuss with Kiro and let you know.

True. It's the "people who don't like iron" who are mostly unlikeable by human standards: the humans themselves are a decent bunch.

I liked Enchanted Glass (although never understood the meals the cook was making...sounded like some kind of casserole...) The only thing I didn't like was the weird reveal near the end about who slept with Grandfather. Seemed rushed and out of place. The adults were sweet though and I like that ogre/troll character who eats veggies. :-)

How about Conrad's Fate? That was a nice recent one, I remember many of the side characters being very funny.

The reveal explained why Grandfather left a bequest to this kid he had no presumed connection to. Not just because he was such a nice man. ^_^ It also proved that all the stalking menace of 'I'll hand you to my master and he'll kindly kill you' had been baseless all along, but My Master let it go on anyway for presumed amusement value. That dark horrific note that she likes to sound even in a fairly genial narrative. Like the wife and sons in The Pinhoe Egg being effectively monsters, but oh well life goes on.

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