tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post5012413339530102414..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): Pratchett & Meyers and MoreSarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-29924494783752510662008-08-20T02:55:00.000-07:002008-08-20T02:55:00.000-07:00Hi Kel, I thought this was an old book -- like a G...Hi Kel, I <I>thought</I> this was an old book -- like a Grimm Brothers book. I didn't at all assume that it was an example of literature for today's Russian children! I shall amend the text to say "old."<BR/><BR/>I imagine the Russian crisis is indeed on your mind. For us here, it's just bewildering, and all happened <I>so fast</I>...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-91102164503337811782008-08-19T22:48:00.000-07:002008-08-19T22:48:00.000-07:00Okay, so this book is 1991, but still...a bad exam...Okay, so this book is 1991, but still...a bad example of Russian kids lit :) Think the plastic surgery book, for example :)Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169707337312707247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-11305303896402571522008-08-19T14:49:00.000-07:002008-08-19T14:49:00.000-07:00Aargh: replace Alexander II with Nicholas II. Typ...Aargh: replace Alexander II with Nicholas II. Typos, galore!Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169707337312707247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-35768928618796234242008-08-19T14:48:00.000-07:002008-08-19T14:48:00.000-07:00Also, another P.S.: This 13-year-old gave me the Y...Also, another P.S.: This 13-year-old gave me the YA excuse "seriously." Sad, but true. I'm still flummoxed.<BR/><BR/>(And, obviously, Russia today hurts my heart. This is my field of study, my love...and it's as gone as it was under Alexander II, under Stalin, under Ivan the Terrible.)Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169707337312707247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-86321081541881222062008-08-19T14:43:00.000-07:002008-08-19T14:43:00.000-07:00Walter Dean Myers=Awesome.Russian book linked to=n...Walter Dean Myers=Awesome.<BR/><BR/>Russian book linked to=not so much.<BR/><BR/>There are a few good Russian kids books (not a ton, but still a few), and this one is not one of them. This is 19th century verse. If we looked a much of 19th century Anglo-American verse, it would seem as ridiculous as this. The author of this blog "translates" 2 lines of 14, and then badly. The other 12 lines or so resemble what we see in our very own American books.<BR/><BR/>So, yes, this Russian book stinks, but it is not exemplary of Russian children's lit or of Russian lit. (I say this as a person who hates Russia right now very, very much. I'm a person who misses the Russia I knew in the early 1990s and is afraid I will never ever see it again.)Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169707337312707247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-56219477769925105192008-08-19T10:53:00.000-07:002008-08-19T10:53:00.000-07:00great minds think alike...i linked to the NPR piec...great minds think alike...i linked to the NPR piece, too. SO GOOD.Jules at 7-Imphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439756778611468303noreply@blogger.com