We went on several errands today. Kinda fun day, actually.
Anyway, the main stop was the book store. Books-a-million to be exact. Lessee, I got a Redwall book by Brian Jaques, Loamhedge. Lorna got a book for herself too, The Catswold Portal by Shirley Rousseau Murphy. We also got a literary magazine called Oxford American and two SciFi magazines, Azimov’s Science Fiction and Analog.
We also got a doohickey thingy for me. It’s a book holder of sorts. I’ve not had a chance to play with it much yet. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Oh, I also got a lemon-poppy seed and a drink. Lorna got a coffee with stuff in it and some sort of hard log cookie thing.
I love the Redwall books. I’ve got several of them already. The problem is that we are always so hungry after reading them!!
Ah, so that’s what Redwall is! One of the talks I went to at Worldcon was by the illustrator Fangorn, who had done a lot of covers for the Redwall books, which he displayed. I’d never heard of them, and neither had anyone else in the audience, it seemed, going by the lack of response when he asked questions about them occasionally. I had assumed they were a comic or something; it makes much more sense that they are children’s books.
They may be children’s books in the UK, but here in the US we adults love ’em! It is great how the author talks about little mice, keeping them as mice, but yet giving them ‘human-like’ capabilities. It is very easy to see it as you read, because they are still mice and badgers and rats and rabbits. He did a great job of transferring their natural habits and abilities.