RIP Diana Wynne Jones
Mar. 26th, 2011 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anime_babbleThere are some stories you read that stay with you.
Everyone has their favorite DWJ book, mine's the first one of hers I picked up "Howl's Moving Castle". I can quote passages from it even now. Sometimes you outgrow your childhood favorites, but her books always stood the test of time for me.
I can't believe I'm never going to get to pick up a new release from her again. She was inspiring; in a world where it seems some new hot author is getting pushed every month, I took comfort from the fact that she didn't get published until she was a grandmother.
Losing a favorite author is such a odd sadness. I didn't know her really.
But I read her words and her thoughts and her worldview seeped into her stories. So in a way, I did, and I mourn her like a lost friend.
Everyone has their favorite DWJ book, mine's the first one of hers I picked up "Howl's Moving Castle". I can quote passages from it even now. Sometimes you outgrow your childhood favorites, but her books always stood the test of time for me.
I can't believe I'm never going to get to pick up a new release from her again. She was inspiring; in a world where it seems some new hot author is getting pushed every month, I took comfort from the fact that she didn't get published until she was a grandmother.
Losing a favorite author is such a odd sadness. I didn't know her really.
But I read her words and her thoughts and her worldview seeped into her stories. So in a way, I did, and I mourn her like a lost friend.
