alive Alive ALIVE!
We turn our thoughts this (most alive!) month to Most Alive settings:
IRL: #lakelife ! We are new to living on a lake, and neither of us grew up visiting lakes. It's taken a few seasons for us to learn all the joys of lake living. The view alone is enough to make me feel alive. And kayaking, fishing, tubing, swimming, wildlife-watching, and fire-pit fellowship are everyday activities for us now. It's wonderful and inspiring!
Other places where I've been overcome by alive-feelings:
La Jolla, CA
Yosemite Valley, CA
Cape San Blas, FL
Badlands, SD
The Enchanted Highway, ND – I love North Dakota's stark beauty so much I used it as the (dystopian) geographical setting in my newest novel D-39: A Robodog's Journey. (Side note: the D-39 model robodog is made by a company named Dog Alive™!)
When it comes to alive-settings in books, I can conjure quite a few! But here are my knee-jerk responses.
Classic children's literature: Narnia
Contemporary children's literature: Hogwarts
New (2021) middle grade novel: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
Isn't it interesting that all are FANTASY? The power of imagination, yes?
Wishing you all the alive-feelings today!
IRL: #lakelife ! We are new to living on a lake, and neither of us grew up visiting lakes. It's taken a few seasons for us to learn all the joys of lake living. The view alone is enough to make me feel alive. And kayaking, fishing, tubing, swimming, wildlife-watching, and fire-pit fellowship are everyday activities for us now. It's wonderful and inspiring!
La Jolla, CA
Yosemite Valley, CA
Cape San Blas, FL
Badlands, SD
The Enchanted Highway, ND – I love North Dakota's stark beauty so much I used it as the (dystopian) geographical setting in my newest novel D-39: A Robodog's Journey. (Side note: the D-39 model robodog is made by a company named Dog Alive™!)
When it comes to alive-settings in books, I can conjure quite a few! But here are my knee-jerk responses.
Contemporary children's literature: Hogwarts
New (2021) middle grade novel: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
Isn't it interesting that all are FANTASY? The power of imagination, yes?
Wishing you all the alive-feelings today!
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Irene Latham is a grateful creator of many novels, poetry collections, and picture books, including the coauthored Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship, which earned a Charlotte Huck Honor, and The Cat Man of Aleppo, which won a Caldecott Honor. Irene lives on a lake in rural Alabama.
I absolutely agree with you about the lake!
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