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#book #Audiobook
《Every Heart A Doorway》Seanan McGuire
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結果這真的是科幻小說!短短的,有點奇怪的故事(說奇怪也有點怪,總之不是 strange 是 weird,好的那種),不過還真沒想到會這樣發展,好有趣!也想不到會有這麼多續集:
預計五部曲,目前出到第三集 Beneath the Sugar Sky,第二集 Down Among the Sticks And Bone 是本年度星雲獎最佳中長篇小說(Novella)提名
#scribd #WaywardChildren #YA #SciFi
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這本的唸者是 Cynthia Hopkins
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我……連續三天午休被她哄睡
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#2 Down Among The Sticks and Bones 是作者 Seanan MaGuire 自己唸
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系列作名稱 Wayward Children 直譯是「任性的孩子」,不過我更喜歡想成「到處去的孩子」
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在這個世界裡面,有些十幾歲的孩子會碰到「門」,打開「門」就會進入另一個國度,可能是滿天彩虹與公主的夢幻園地,也可能是充滿鬼魂或吸血鬼的恐怖世界,某一天「門」再度現身,於是到處去的孩子回到了現在。
但父母無法接受失蹤不過一週的孩子說起自己在別的世界待了整整一年,還有難以置信的各種世界,所以這些孩子來到 Eleanor West 之家,Nancy 也是。
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Nancy 的到來卻也改變了這個地方,一連串事件的真相到底是什麼?
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我沒打算講出謎底(雖然也不覺得那很容易忘記),不過這本小書的本質與其說是推理小說,還是更偏向 Young Adult 的成長童話……
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“We went down, and at the bottom there was a door, and on the door there was a sign. Two words. ‘Be Sure.’ Sure of what? We were twelve, we weren’t sure of anything. So we went through."
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why there are more girls than boys:
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“Because ‘boys will be boys’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Lundy.
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“They’re too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It’s not innate. It’s learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home.
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Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.
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^ 好吧我就是想在 YA 小說(或任何小說裡面)看到這個
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"For us, the places we went were home. We didn't care if they were good or evil or neutral or what. We cared about the fact that for the first time we didn't have to pretend to be something we weren't. We just got to be. That made all the difference in the world."
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以及,顯然《獅子,女巫,魔衣櫥》的作者也知道「門」的事 XD
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"What about, like, Narnia?" asked Christopher. "Those kids went through all sorts of different doors, and they always wound up back with the big talking lion."
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