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Monday, August 24, 2009
Quoted in: The Hoot
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Poem: Maya
Maya: Illusion
I see illusions
Their iridescent colours
Like mica
Somewhere in my psyche
I know what they are--
Ready to shatter
With a firm tap
But mesmerised
I lose myself to the maya
I do not tap, I admire,
Trapped in its perfection
Such beauty must exist
It has a right to be, I say
I forget it is mica
I stare: it is mother-of-pearl
I tell myself it holds treasures.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Book Review: The Graveyard Book
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
A family is murdered, except for the smallest member, a toddler about one year old. The baby crawls into a graveyard and this, of all places, becomes his home--a long dead old couple by the name of Owens become his parents, and name him Nobody Owens.
It's amazing how Neil Gaiman is able to create a world of ghosts who become, as we read, more substantial than the living and how he can make a graveyard a place of comfort and safety. He turns the usual cliches and assumptions of 'evil' and 'scary' being associated with the dead and portrays their lives after death and their skills (still useful to educate a present-day child, albeit with some strange and old info) with affection and wit.
He quite literally brings life to the dead (witches, ghouls, werewolves, and more) and reveals how these graveyard guardians, help raise a living child from age one to nearly adulthood.
This Graveyard world is as cosy and magical and dangerous as any fantasy world we've read of in books. Gaiman brings his deep understanding of people, circumstances and emotions to the book, and before we know it, we have become close to this boy with the strange name and especially to his sinister part-alive-part-dead guardian, Silas.
I don't read the horror or vampire genres and the like, but this book I loved.
Wonderful, brilliant book. Highly recommended to young (target audience: 9-12) and old.
The copy I bought cost Rs 390 at Crossword and is an original Harper Trophy publication with black ink illustrations by Dave McKean.
A family is murdered, except for the smallest member, a toddler about one year old. The baby crawls into a graveyard and this, of all places, becomes his home--a long dead old couple by the name of Owens become his parents, and name him Nobody Owens.It's amazing how Neil Gaiman is able to create a world of ghosts who become, as we read, more substantial than the living and how he can make a graveyard a place of comfort and safety. He turns the usual cliches and assumptions of 'evil' and 'scary' being associated with the dead and portrays their lives after death and their skills (still useful to educate a present-day child, albeit with some strange and old info) with affection and wit.
He quite literally brings life to the dead (witches, ghouls, werewolves, and more) and reveals how these graveyard guardians, help raise a living child from age one to nearly adulthood.
This Graveyard world is as cosy and magical and dangerous as any fantasy world we've read of in books. Gaiman brings his deep understanding of people, circumstances and emotions to the book, and before we know it, we have become close to this boy with the strange name and especially to his sinister part-alive-part-dead guardian, Silas.
I don't read the horror or vampire genres and the like, but this book I loved.
Wonderful, brilliant book. Highly recommended to young (target audience: 9-12) and old.
The copy I bought cost Rs 390 at Crossword and is an original Harper Trophy publication with black ink illustrations by Dave McKean.
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