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Isobelle Carmody

Författare till Obernewtyn

65+ verk 8,078 medlemmar 146 recensioner 46 favoritmärkta

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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Isobelle Carmody

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

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

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Carmody, Isobelle Jane
Födelsedag
1958-06-16
Kön
female
Nationalitet
Australia
Födelseort
Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Bostadsorter
Victoria, Australia
Yrken
fantasy writer
Relationer
Stolba, Jan (husband)
Priser och utmärkelser
Aurealis Awards

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Recensioner

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 annan recension | 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.… (mer)
 
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Law_Books600 | 40 andra recensioner | 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!
… (mer)
 
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lexilewords | 40 andra recensioner | Dec 28, 2023 |

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65
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Medlemmar
8,078
Popularitet
#2,999
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
146
ISBN
406
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Favoritmärkt
46

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