Nectaria Radu Radu itibaren Zumpango del Río, Guerrero, Mexico
I can hardly do this book justice by trying to explain it tbecause it was just so unique and awesome. It's written in the format of a diary of a 15 year old Welsh girl who has been sent to live with her father in England. She LOVES science fiction and reads voraciously. She writes about SF all the time in her journal, but she writes the way a 15 year old girl would. In other words, she doesn't really explain the plot of the book she's just read but she's sharing her thoughts on it. I had to google a lot of the authors, but when it happened that I did know the book she was reading, it was awesome to know exactly what she was talking about and realize I had the same exact feelings. For example, she was very disappointed when she learned that Aslan was an allegory for Christ. I remember feeling the same way, like I didn't get that at all when I read the series. Aside from the awesome SF obsession that she has, she can also see fairies, do magic and her mom is an evil witch. But it's not like a harry potter type world, it's like our world where no one believes in magic. She's very unique. It was such a good book!!
Philosophically sophisticated, extremely challenging, and written in beautiful prose. She had a towering intellect and excellent style to boot. Imagine a collaboration between James Joyce, Herman Melville, and Carson McCullers; that is the best preview I can give. I wish I could be more helpful in explaining why everyone who writes fiction or thinks about fiction should read this book, but this would be like explaining why a particular mountaineer should climb a particular mountain--and this is a mountain of a book.
This was one of the first Biblical novels I ever read. I love it!