RIP Joan Aiken

[magid]

She wrote so many books that shaped my ideas of good, from when I was small and constantly taking A Necklace of Raindrops out of the library, time after time after time, to being scared for some of the fearless characters in Black Hearts in Battersea and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (simultaneously frustrated with all the strange words and dialects), to laughing over the adventures of Arabel and her raven Mortimer. Oh, and the Bridle the Sea trilogy was wonderful. Some of her more recent works were less thrilling, but always worth reading, to see what happened next. I didn't appreciate the use of language and alternate history until so much later.

And now, once the book she sent to the printer recently comes out, there will be no more. RIP.

(Here's a brief BBC obit.)

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[magid.livejournal.com]

I know; it was a plug just in case ;-)