Dogsbody

Dogsbody

it’s about the love between a girl and her dog, but it’s also about the complex dynamics between three children, two cats, and a dog in an abusive household, but it’s also about the politics of stars, but it’s also about a welsh god of the dead, but it’s also about the troubles

I recently read Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones, and discovered a new favorite author. 

Trick or treat, cat?

what do you think, rabbit

“And there, sitting in the center of the green meadow, Sirius remembered a little.  He felt as if, inside his head, he was sitting in a green space that was vast, boundless, queer, and even more alive than the meadow in which his body sat.” –Diana Wynne Jones, “Dogsbody”

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trick or treat

Treat! I think. They’re a little uncanny valley, but it’s Halloween, I guess, so eh

my favorite thing about dogsbody by diana wynne jones (this is all going to be a lie because actually my favorite thing about dogsbody is the Entire Book) is that you can recommend it to fans of ANY genre.

>sci fi (high tech weapons! interstellar hijinks!)

>historical fiction (sorry for calling it that to everyone reading this who was alive during The Troubles!)

>fantasy (stars are people?!)

>mythology (welsh and celtic mythology! the wild hunt!)

>realistic fiction (young girl goes to live with various levels of evil relatives in a foreign country, deals w racism; on the other side, levels of trust in relationships, making friends when your social status changes)

>animal stories (a girl and her "dog"! what it's like to BE a dog!)

>mystery/crime (everything about the framing crime that gets sirius ~banished to earth, where is the zoi, who is The Master, what is the truth?)

anyway, it's my favorite diana wynne jones book, Which Is Saying Something. check it out from the internet archive here!