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lizshayne 's review for:
At the Back of the North Wind
by George MacDonald
So, the thing is, I’m reading George MacDonald because I feel like I missed a LOT of the 19th century fantasy that inspired the authors I love.
So it’s a mix of seeing their inspiration, but also seeing what they consciously jettisoned and also reflecting back on tastes that were shaped by what they chose to keep and leave out creates an interesting response to it.
2 thoughts.
1 - the Victorian child is a fascinating character and the way they are realized never ceases to intrigue me. (What are small humans even?)
2 - it’s not that the theology of this book isn’t explicit OR simplistic because it is both, but I want more books that think about how we ought to be. (It’s VERY different, but reminiscent nonetheless of Jemisin in the broken earth and “no voting on who gets to be people”. Literature is also a conversation about who they - meaning the characters - are so who we ought to be).
So it’s a mix of seeing their inspiration, but also seeing what they consciously jettisoned and also reflecting back on tastes that were shaped by what they chose to keep and leave out creates an interesting response to it.
2 thoughts.
1 - the Victorian child is a fascinating character and the way they are realized never ceases to intrigue me. (What are small humans even?)
2 - it’s not that the theology of this book isn’t explicit OR simplistic because it is both, but I want more books that think about how we ought to be. (It’s VERY different, but reminiscent nonetheless of Jemisin in the broken earth and “no voting on who gets to be people”. Literature is also a conversation about who they - meaning the characters - are so who we ought to be).