This weeks them is helping Dewey to move. Sounds strange, right, but don’t worry. She’s not asking for help in the physical labor aspect, just with her book reviews. She has a much larger pile of books to review (which I’m assuming she has read) and she wants our help. We’re to pick a book (or more) and ask her three questions. At the end of the week, for each book, she’s going to…
- Choose someone’s three questions. The more unique and thought-provoking your questions, the more likely they are to be chosen, of course.
- Write a mini-review answering the three questions (and, obviously, linking to the questioner’s blog).
- Offer the book to the blogger whose questions I answer, IF the book is mine to give away. (the books in blue are not hers)
- If the blogger doesn’t want the book (has already read it, for example) I’ll just put one of the usual giveaways at the bottom of the mini-review post.
After taking a look at the list of books she has, this week is going to be hard for me. I’ve never heard of any of the authors, let alone the novels, and since I have no clue what they are about, I’m not even sure where to begin. So, I took a look at some of them on Amazon and decided to ask Dewey about two of them: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin and Varjak Paw by SF Said.
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A review by AudioFile says “Ellison’s narration absorbs the listener into the imaginary realm of Roke Island”. What were your impressions on Le Guin’s world? Did you feel like you escaped to another world? Was the world too unrealistic and too imaginary that it would be hard to feel like someone actually lives there?- When people compare The Wizard of Earthsea to Tolkien’s Middle-earth or Lewis’s Narnia, do you think it’s fair? Or does it apply to much pressure to Le Guin to be compared to Tolkien or Lewis? Is Earthsea in the same league as Middle-earth and Narnia or does it lack something the others have? What elements of the novel make it worthy to be compared to Tolkien’s Middle-earth or Lewis’s Narnia?
- What made you go out and read this book? Why should I read this book? (I know it’s simple, but really, give me some motivation to look for it.)
Varjak Paw by SF Said
After reading the book description on Amazon, the first feeling I got was that Varjak Paw was a much older and darker version of the Lady and the Tramp, something more for adults rather than kids. If you were to read these two works side by side, would you find similarities or is there two completely different stories? Could someone else see a correlation between the novels?- It sounds like the narrator of the novel is a cat, what was it like reading a novel through the eyes of a feline? Was there enough development in the plot and the characters, and their intellect, so that the story wasn’t overly simplistic or, at the opposite end, too complex?
- What made you go out and read this book? Why should I read this book? (I know it’s simple, but really, give me some motivation to look for it.)
Of the two novels, I’m more interested in The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, but both sound intriguing. Now that I came up with my three questions, I’m going to pass the buck to you. If you think about it, this is a great contest. So have you read any of these books? Have you heard of them and have a few questions you want to ask? If you do, then write a post for this weeks Weekly Geeks and link back to Dewey’s page.
