{"id":18007,"date":"2013-02-16T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2013-02-16T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T02:36:55","slug":"stand-out-author-garth-nix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18007","title":{"rendered":"Stand-out Author: Garth Nix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m doing a series on 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a> Authors who are returning to my list, in other words, my Favorite Authors. Four different authors have a total of 5 Stand-outs, and tonight I’ll be featuring Garth Nix.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Some books are so good, I can always remember the experience of reading them the first time and where I was when I read them. I remember reading Sabriel<\/a><\/em> on Christmas vacation, when our family was driving from San Diego to Phoenix. It had been recommended to me by both my son and my husband, and I was blown away by how good it was.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Of course, when I got home from the trip, I immediately had to read the next two books, Lirael<\/a><\/em> and Abhorsen<\/a><\/em>. In a way, I was lucky I’d taken my time getting around to reading the first one, since they were all published by the time I did, and I could devour them as fast as possible. (Rats! Just writing about them makes me want to read them again! I don’t have time to put my life on hold right now, since I’m buying a house. I will have to resist!)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All three books of this series made my 2004 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> in Young Adult Fantasy. Sabriel<\/em> was #3, and Lirael<\/em> and Abhorsen<\/em> were #9 and #10, respectively.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I still hadn’t had enough of Sabriel’s World, and when a book of short stories and a novella came out in 2005, Across the Wall<\/a><\/em>, it made my 2005 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, #6 in Young Adult Fantasy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Finally, this year, Garth Nix is back on the list, this time with something totally different, a Science Fiction story rather than a Fantasy. I listened to A Confusion of Princes<\/a><\/em> on audiobook, and I was completely absorbed, almost too absorbed for driving! On my 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, it was #8 in Young Adult Fiction. (I didn’t divide the genres this year.)<\/p>\n

Another cool thing that happened this year, was I got to meet Garth Nix at the Margaret Edwards Luncheon! (And, yes, he’s Australian, so he has a cute accent, too!) I was sad that I had not yet read A Confusion of Princes<\/em>, so I couldn’t tell him how great I thought it was. Anyway, now I’m telling all my readers: Garth Nix’s books are the sort you will remember forever. Stand-outs after one year, but also after eight years.<\/p>\n

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