Posts Tagged ‘Squid Ink’
Squid Ink – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dreaming of a new life
Squid Ink has hit the nail on the head with this one. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick is a classic science fiction novel, it was made into a movie with Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard under the title of Blade Runner. It’s the story of androids who don’t want to be decommissioned (i.e. killed) and they fight back, I think we all dream of a new life. One of the questions that could be asked is whether the androids are considered sentient and this question could be extended to all life that isn’t human.
It’s one of those books I really recommend everyone read. I have one copy of Blade Runner available for sale.
Moomin greets Squid Ink
Some of my favourite books as a child were the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. They have a magical, pleasant, gentle quality that many books don’t have. The covers match those qualities and you can see three of them here.
May the Fourth be With You!
May the Fourth be With You
This special Squid Ink celebrates Star Wars. It’s being published on the wrong day for a reason and you get 10 points for figuring it out. There’s a vague hint on Wookieepedia.
Straight on till morning
Saved!
Peter Pan is one of those books from my childhood, from most people’s childhood. It is iconic and full of innocence with the most gorgeous images. I often wonder why one book can do so well when another flops. First published in book form in 1911 it has endured several generations and I’m sure will continue pleasing many more.
The character Peter Pan is forever young and so many of us try to imitate that in so many ways. Some people will dress young, others will put themselves through countless surgeries in order to halt the aging process and others just act young. So many people are searching for that elixir of life that halts the aging process completely and makes us young forever. I don’t want to live forever.
I don’t understand why Wendy becomes a ‘mother figure’, I do wonder if Barrie is telling us that boys never grow up but girls do. Just speculation, what do you think?
Watch out for Squid Ink next week on a very special day!
Squid Ink goes to the Austrian Alps
Squid Ink meets Rufus.
The Chalet School books were written between 1925 and 1970, all written by Elinor Brent-Dyer. They were and still are magical books with really lovely characters who all believe the best in everyone and are disappointed when someone turns out to be less than perfect. I’ve loved them for years and have to be careful when opening a book to list as I’m likely to read the whole book as witnessed in this post.
I’d definitely recommend them for the pre-teens age group, there is the odd bit of violence but swearing is very much frowned upon. With only 60 books it’ll keep them going for a little.
2001 by Squid Ink
Squid Ink meets Hal
Squid Ink’s reading is wide and varied. This week he’s been getting in Arthur C. Clarke and finding out all about 2001, hope he didn’t see the movie.
I’ve seen the movie of 2001 a couple of times and didn’t understand it either time, it did give us some great lines such as, ‘Open the pod bay door, Hal’ but sense is something it didn’t make to me. I haven’t read the book but I hope when I do take the dive it will make more sense. One thing I’ve found with movies and books is that often the book explains the movie and I have a greater understanding of it. How does this work for you?
Watership Down? Squid Ink!
Who has Squid Ink met now?
Squid Ink reads a most diverse list of books. This week it’s Watership Down by Richard Adams. It’s one of my favourite books from my childhood. I love it still despite weeping every time I read it.
It’s the story of some rabbits who decide to leave their warren and strike out on their own. They have a leader, a dreamer and someone who’s learned to fight. On the way they meet other rabbits who have a different lifestyle and eventually find their way to a place they can call their own. The story doesn’t end there though as they have to find female rabbits if they’re to survive and they find some caged rabbits, let them free and take them back to their warren. It’s a heartwarming story and one I recommend. There is violence and death though, so it’s not for a young child, I’d probably pitch it to ten years and above.
Squid Ink reads The Knife of Never Letting Go
Someone let Squid Ink loose on a new library and this is the result. I’d never even heard of the book or the author so I had to do some research. It’s about a colony of people on another world, supposedly a Christian colony but there seems to be a lot of Jewish symbolism there. According to my research it’s aimed at teens.
Squid Ink, Don’t Panic!
I wonder if Douglas Adams would approve.
Someone let Squid Ink loose on my bookshelves again. I can’t imagine what he’d think if he read the other books in the Hitchhiker’s trilogy. I did wonder where that towel went to. He’d better not see the Douglas Adams’ books I have listed, they might grow legs, Squid Ink type legs.
Squid Ink meets the Fantastic Mr Fox
Squid Ink to the rescue!
It’s interesting how you can hide really big ideas in a children’s book. I think Fantastic Mr Fox is all about racism and attempted genocide but it’s for children.