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March 15, 2003

Dreaming of Summerland

I seem to have forgotten to write about Summerland, as I promised. <sorry Jake and Jocelyn!>

I finished it ages ago, and was just thinking about Chabon and his movies <has anyone heard anything more about how he's adapting Kavelier and Klay for the big screen?> and was wondering if it would make a good film....

Summerland has an "American Gods" meets "Spy Kids" with bit of "Field of Dreams' thrown in for the baseball stuff. I hate sports, don't understand how playing a game could make kids better people....but I still liked this book. Incorporating fairies and sasquatch, giants and elves, tying our known world with a fantasy world through a creative tree analogy <that belongs to a native american mythology that I haven't yet read> and dipping into the lives of several very interesting kids who fight to keep the paths open between reality and fantasy. I've said before that I love Chabon's work. I'm happy to say that his work is a consistent pleasure to read, while his stories are varied and unpredictable.

oh yes, I simply must mention the much-blogged-about chicago webbloggers event <thanks again to Andrew, for posting pics and taking roll> Jess has cool pictures of the event, too <including the racy skirt Ms. Alicia was sporting>...I love how the event got everyone's creative community-building juices flowing! I agree with cinnamon, btw, personal publishing <or should i say, PURSE-onal publishing> is the better word for what we all do with moveable type.

Posted by Heather at March 15, 2003 06:02 PM

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