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Hexwood Re-Read
May. 6th, 2020 04:01 pmI've been thinking about live-blogging (well, sort of live-blogging) a re-read of Hexwood at some point, so here, might as well just DO it. Make myself keep my brain active.
Here's the copy I'm using, which for some reason is displaying sideways, despite the photo I uploaded not being sideways. I'm not certain what's happening, so we'll just go with it.
It's the 1993 hardcover edition, which is probably the edition I first read, taken out of the library at the tender age of goodness-knows-what. The copy I owned for many years was a later paperback edition, which is now much-loved and -battered, so Ben got me a hardcover off a used book site a few years back for my birthday.
It's one of those books that is often shelved as YA. And while I can SEE why it was shelved as YA—our apparent protagonist, Ann Stavely, is portrayed as solidly in the realm of pre-teen when she's introduced—but it's one of those books where, when I re-read it as an adult, I was somewhat confused about that classification, just because some of the subjects it deals with are HEAVY and maybe not age-appropriate for the 10-something years old I was when I first read it.
It's divided up into 9 parts, and I'm going to try and read one and do some (probably spoiler-heavy) commentary (that I will try and keep below a cut) on a part a day, starting tomorrow!
Here's the copy I'm using, which for some reason is displaying sideways, despite the photo I uploaded not being sideways. I'm not certain what's happening, so we'll just go with it.
It's the 1993 hardcover edition, which is probably the edition I first read, taken out of the library at the tender age of goodness-knows-what. The copy I owned for many years was a later paperback edition, which is now much-loved and -battered, so Ben got me a hardcover off a used book site a few years back for my birthday.
It's one of those books that is often shelved as YA. And while I can SEE why it was shelved as YA—our apparent protagonist, Ann Stavely, is portrayed as solidly in the realm of pre-teen when she's introduced—but it's one of those books where, when I re-read it as an adult, I was somewhat confused about that classification, just because some of the subjects it deals with are HEAVY and maybe not age-appropriate for the 10-something years old I was when I first read it.
It's divided up into 9 parts, and I'm going to try and read one and do some (probably spoiler-heavy) commentary (that I will try and keep below a cut) on a part a day, starting tomorrow!
