Overhead doors

[asakiyume]

A truck was pulled up in a driveway in my neighborhood. It said "Devine Overhead Doors." (Here's a photo from the company's website, if you'd like to know precisely what it looked like.) Now, it seems that "overhead door" means a garage door that rolls up, but my thoughts went like this:

Devine Divine Overhead Doors



It reminds me of one of the stories in The Ladies of Grace Adieu, where angels poke their heads out of windows in the sky.

In very slightly tangential news, I gave up on Every Heart a Doorway, not for any flaw on its part, but because I realized--belatedly--that I don't like sucking all portal experiences into one framework.

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[asakiyume]

I have to warn you that it's got a very uncomfortable-to-me mix of whimsy and seriousness in the first third or maybe even half, but then (from my perspective) picks one tone (seriousness).

It really did leave a big impression on me, though--the landscape of it and the characters.

I've corresponded with the author, though I haven't sent her a letter in ages and should really check to be sure she's still with us. After meeting her,** I read other books by her that I also liked a whole lot. Something she did in all her books, long, long before it was popular, was include neuroatypical characters.

**We met at a memorial for Lloyd Alexander--in fact, we started corresponding because of him. I enthused about her book to him when I met him, and he knew her and told her, and she wrote to me!

[osprey_archer]

I looked Ellen Kindt McKenzie up, and it turns out I've read one of her other books! Stargone John, which popped up in the library database when I searched for books about gifted children lo these many years ago.

I remember one scene very vividly - at school everyone thinks that he can't read or write at all, and then when one of his classmates is teasing him he writes "Jane is Bad" on the board. Not very nice, but definitely an exhibition of skill!

[asakiyume]

The two other things I read by her were Taash and the Jesters and Kashka, which form a duology. I need to get myself copies of them.

(I think I read one other thing as well, but those are the two I really liked--other than Drujienna's Harp)

[kore]

Aww, that's lovely.