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Isobelle Carmody

Teoksen Obernewtyn tekijä

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Isobelle Carmody was born in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia on June 16, 1958. She is the author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, the Legend of Little Fur series, and the Kingdom of The Lost series. She also illustrated the last two series. She has received numerous awards including the Talking Book näytä lisää of the Year in 1992 for Scatterlings, the Children's Literature Peace Prize in 1994 for The Gathering, an Aurealis Award for Darksong, a Golden Aurealis for Alyzon Whitestarr, and the 2016 Bronze Ledger Award for Evermore. She was also voted Australia's Favourite Author in Booktopia's annual poll in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

Obernewtyn (1987) 1,632 kappaletta
The Farseekers (1990) 849 kappaletta
Ashling (1995) 841 kappaletta
The Keeping Place (1999) 700 kappaletta
Darkfall (1997) 324 kappaletta
The Gathering (1993) 312 kappaletta
The Stone Key (2008) 258 kappaletta
Darksong (2002) 240 kappaletta
Billy Thunder and the Night Gate (2000) 239 kappaletta
Alyzon Whitestarr (2005) 200 kappaletta
Wavesong (part 1 of The Stone Key) (2008) 168 kappaletta
Scatterlings (1991) 151 kappaletta
A Fox Called Sorrow (Little Fur) (2006) 140 kappaletta
Green Monkey Dreams (1996) 103 kappaletta
Greylands (1997) 87 kappaletta
The Wilful Eye (2011) — Editor, Contributor — 85 kappaletta
The Seeker (2000) 80 kappaletta
A Mystery of Wolves (2007) 70 kappaletta
The Red Wind (2010) 56 kappaletta
Dreamwalker (2001) 54 kappaletta
The Wicked Wood (2011) — Toimittaja — 48 kappaletta
Metro Winds (2012) 48 kappaletta
Riddle of Green (2008) 47 kappaletta
Magic Night (2006) 36 kappaletta
Evermore (2015) 26 kappaletta
Angel Fever (2004) 24 kappaletta
The cat dreamer (2005) 21 kappaletta
Cloud road (2013) 16 kappaletta
Night school (2010) 15 kappaletta
Ice maze (2017) 13 kappaletta
The Rebellion (2011) 11 kappaletta
Darkbane 8 kappaletta
The Stone Key 7 kappaletta
The Journey (2016) 6 kappaletta
Wildheart (2002) 6 kappaletta
The Landlord (After Dark 40) (1999) 6 kappaletta
This Way Out (1998) 4 kappaletta
The Phoenix 3 kappaletta
Perchance To Dream 3 kappaletta
The Sending 2 kappaletta
Trust Me Too (2012) 2 kappaletta
Firecat's Dream (2005) 1 kappale
The Sending 1 kappale
The Dove Game 1 kappale
The Dark Road 1 kappale
The Keystone 1 kappale

Associated Works

Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (2012) — Avustaja — 311 kappaletta
Dreaming Down-Under (1998) — Avustaja — 182 kappaletta
Gathering the Bones (2003) — Avustaja — 111 kappaletta
Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean (2014) — Avustaja — 95 kappaletta
Legends of Australian Fantasy (2010) — Avustaja — 62 kappaletta
Altered Voices (1994) — Avustaja — 60 kappaletta
Fearsome Magics (2014) — Avustaja — 47 kappaletta
Writers on writing (2002) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1997) — Avustaja — 27 kappaletta
Dark House (1995) — Avustaja — 20 kappaletta
Forever Shores (2003) — Avustaja — 20 kappaletta
Dream Weavers (1996) — Avustaja — 15 kappaletta
Exotic Gothic 4 (2012) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
Goodbye and Hello (1992) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (2013) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Exotic Gothic 3 Strange Visitations (2009) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta

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Virallinen nimi
Carmody, Isobelle Jane
Syntymäaika
1958-06-16
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
Australia
Syntymäpaikka
Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Asuinpaikat
Victoria, Australia
Ammatit
fantasy writer
Suhteet
Stolba, Jan (husband)
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Aurealis Awards

Jäseniä

Keskustelut

a gate?, Name that Book (kesäkuu 2014)
Fantasy wolf novel, Name that Book (syyskuu 2012)

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I loved this SO MUCH and the only thing I was sad about was that there wasn't more of the last third of the book; I felt like the first third was so intricately detailed and then by the end it was a wee bit rushed. Not enough to take a star off though!

Banana, anyone?
 
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LaurenThemself | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 20, 2024 |
Love Isobelle Carmody. Would have loved the book a whole lot more if I wasn't dealing with depression right now, because I didn't cotton on going in that I was going to be reading about depression and suicide. OOPS. She still deserves four stars though because it's not her fault I read it at a bad time and as usual her prose was fab and the story all fit together beautifully.
 
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LaurenThemself | Feb 20, 2024 |
Representation: N/A
Trigger warnings: Imprisonment, near-death experience, fire, death of a person from a weapon shot, disappearance of a person
Score: Seven points out of ten.
This review can also be found on The StoryGraph.

I wanted to read this for a while and when I saw one of the two libraries I regularly go to have this I picked it up and read it. This was again, another piece of Australian literature like the last book I've read but this is different from that though it is, dare I say it, not that original since it reminded me of The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni. The novel starts with the backstory explaining superficially and vaguely I might add about how the world in this story came to be and then it cuts main character Elspeth Gordie or Elspeth for short who has powers that no one knows about yet. Elspeth soon finds herself in a prison called Obernewtyn, hence the title where she stays for most of the book and that part is where the novel slowed its pacing. At least I got to see what living in Obernewtyn was like but the vague worldbuilding dampened my enjoyment and I struggled to connect to any of the characters. There are six more books in the series but I'm not rushing to finish the series.… (lisätietoja)
 
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Law_Books600 | 40 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 29, 2023 |
My copy of Obernewtyn doesn't look like the cover image to the left, mine is of an older printing, but Random House released the first 3 out of print volumes to coincide with the release of books 4-6 back in December of 2008. I like the new covers--they definitely fit the story better.

This first book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles is the shortest--the other five are all above 350 pages with Books 5 and 6 being over 500 pages each--but packs a lot of punch. Unlike with Fall of a Kingdom or Elske, Obernewtyn loves action. How could it not with coups, seditioners, rebellions and teenagers all thrown into the mix? Its not quite a non-stop thrill ride, but it can sometimes feel like it is.

Elspeth grows greatly, she's forced to by the religious zealots of the Council who fear her (and those like her) power, but never the less she grows beyond what I would have expected of her at first. She's definitely a reluctant hero archetype at first; she wants normal, wants to blend in and never noticed so that she can get away. Unfortunately she's too powerful, too untrained and willful to truly be the type of person she needs to be to be considered 'normal'. She tries though. I could feel her struggle to just lay low and let it all pass.

The cast of characters she meets is rather large, but the numbers dwindle as the adventure progresses and plots are made. Some of truly annoying, others I love immensely. I don't want to say who's who, since some of it can be considered a spoiler. Take a guess and I might tell you the truth!

The magic of the world is pretty basic--nothing too hard to grasp or comprehend--the peoples however are diverse and confusing if you don't keep close attention. The book originated from Australia (by an Australian writer) two decades ago. For the first half or so slang terms or idioms not familiar to American make no appearance. Somewhere after the middle though, when Elspeth begins meeting more people like herself and traveling beyond the lands she knows (which aren't that many to begin with) there's a slight shift in the narrative voice. Told from the first person POV of Elspeth throughout, I didn't expect for her 'tone' to change. It did however just enough to make me scratch my head at times.

My only regret is that the book is too short. Even though a lot of my questions are answered in later volumes, I still would have liked immediate gratification. Que Serra!
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lexilewords | 40 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 28, 2023 |

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