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Cargando... Somewhere in My Mind There is a Painting Boxpor Charles de Lint
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Tracy_Rowan | Sep 30, 2017 |   This is a prequel of sorts to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest. Lily is living with her aunt and wandering the countryside outside of Newford that she loves. She spends her days in chores and drawing until one day she finds an old painting box under some leaves in the woods. She figures out that it belongs to Milo Johnson, an artist she admires who disappeared in the woods along with his protege, Frank Spain, over twenty years earlier. And this leads Lily to encounters with the Apple Tree Man, the Lady of the Wood, and her first kiss. This is a lovely story, sweet and satisfying. (  ) N.W.Moors | Oct 4, 2016 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
This short story related to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest features Lillian at 17 years old. Her discovery of a long-lost paint box in the forest, her love of making art, her very first kiss, and the draw of a magical world all combine in this bittersweet tale about having to make a difficult choice.First published in The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (Viking, 2002). Also appeared in the collection Muse & Reverie.One of the most original fantasy writers currently working. —BooklistCharles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend—all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. No one does it better. — Alice HoffmanCharles de Lint writes like a magician. He draws out the strange inside our own world, weaving stories that feel more real than we are when we read them. He is, simply put, the best. — Holly BlackDe Lint is probably the finest contemporary author of fantasy – Booklist, American Library Association Unlike most fantasy writers who deal with battles between ultimate good and evil, de Lint concentrates on smaller, very personal conflicts. Perhaps this is what makes him accessible to the non-fantasy audience as well as the hard-core fans. Perhaps it’s just damned fine writing. – Quill & Quire De Lint’s evocative images, both ordinary and fantastic, jolt the imagination. – Publishers Weekly. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I forgot about Charles de Lint. There was a time when I couldn't get enough of his writing, having picked up Moonheart on a whim, fallen in love with it, and forced it on all my friends who also fell in love with it. Each of us, Karen, Glinda, and I, ordered a hardcover copy from the UK because we had to have the hardcover.
But over time, I turned to other things, other authors, and forgot about the magic of de Lint's world, which is a shame. It's a beautiful place where everything is alive, everything has a spirit, a meaning.
In Somewhere in my mind there is a Painting Box de Lint gives us a young woman hungry for a bigger life. She wants to be an artist, but without money or training, she's not likely to accomplish much. One day she finds an abandoned paint box that had belonged to an artist who worked in the area years earlier. Since he disappeared with an apprentice, his work has become famous, so when Lillian sees the artist's name on one of the panels, she knows exactly who the box belonged to.
Lillian knows there is magic in the world, she's experienced it, she expects it. So when she encounters the young apprentice in the woods, looking not a day older than he was when he and the older artist disappeared, she accepts his tale of having crossed into another world, one so beautiful and brilliant that neither he nor the older artist ever needed to paint again.
The second book, Crow Roads, gives us a story set in the past, about a stranger who comes to a small town, antagonizes the boys and challenges one of them to a contest. After he fights with them, he seduces Annie, the narrator of the story, and then disappears.
She knows she's been touched by magic just as Lillian knows. They understand and accept. But both women find that the encounters put them at crossroads in their lives, and force them to make choices which, even a day earlier, were not remotely available to them.
These are stories about girls becoming their own women, growing, coming to understand who they are, what they want from their lives, and what they have to do to get it.
These are stories about choices, and the not-always-reliable lure of magic. They made me sorry that I'd stopped reading de Lint. But it doesn't matter, because I've begun again. Like meeting an old friend. (