Charlotte Sometimes

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Part III, chapter 7, paragraph 10, 1st sentence: She dreamed she stood below the picture, The Mark of the Beast, and there were soldiers all around her in red uniforms, stiff as toys but tall as men. There were dolls, too, like Miss Agnes’s doll, as tall as the soldiers . . . It’s very suspenseful. It’s a fun meld of speculative fiction and historical fiction. Some aspects are ingenious. It was fun to try to figure out who one particular character was.

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Children's publisher Margaret K. McElderry wrote, "[ Charlotte Sometimes] is a fascinating exploration of the fragile barriers between layers of time, handled with great skill in the writing and delicacy of perception. [19] Great fun! I’d have adored this when I was 9, 10, 11. My 10 year old self gives this 5 full stars. If I wasn’t so in touch with my 10 year old self, I might have given this only 4 stars, but it’s a completely delightful and smart story. On advice by Fiction label owner Chris Parry, the music video for "Charlotte Sometimes" was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium. It features the character of Charlotte recreating scenes from the story in the presence of the band, while Smith mimes the words of the song. I’ve recently read “Charlotte Sometimes” if for no other reason than to compare The Cure lyrics of their classic song Charlotte Sometimes to parts of the children’s fantasy. This is what I learned and it’s very interesting. ***Spoiler Alter***

Simon from New ZealandNo that’s not Janet. In a 1986 interview Robert described that girl as ‘horrible’ and ‘useless’

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What I appreciated most about the book were the implications it carried with it in regards to what it *is* to grow older. I think it's something of an impulse to think of childhood as something merely left behind—or that, we enter adulthood at the expense of a broad vivacity which gives our formative years their brilliant hue. Or that more pointedly, adulthood is entered in the same way we would cross into an unknown at the cost of the so-called simplicity of childhood. Though I am not well-versed in the juvenile level coming-of-age tale, I can at least cite Jerry Spinelli's 'Hokey-Pokey' of what I understand to be an example of the above, but I hope that I may do this without detracting from Hokey-Pokey, which I enjoyed when I read it about a year ago. There too, we have a tale rich in imagination. Still, I think, with aim to inform preference, I prefer Charlotte Sometimes. Peggy Heeks, entry in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, ed. Tracy Chevalier, 3rd ed. St James Press, 1989, pp. 126–127, cited in Something About the Author 105 (1999) p. 68. The cover of the single is a distorted picture of Mary Poole, [3] Smith's then-girlfriend and later wife. The same picture was used again as the cover of the Cure's 1990 single " Pictures of You", but with the picture clear and undistorted.So while I most definitely do tend to think that Penelope Farmer’s 1969 time slip/school story Charlotte Sometimes could basically be approached as a stand-alone novel, upon completion, I also do have to wonder if I had read the first two novels of Farmer’s Aviary Hall series, if I had perused The Summer Birds and Emma in Winter (which I do still intend to do) prior to commencing with Charlotte Sometimes, I might have already and from the previous two accounts had a bit of a feeling for and understanding and appreciation of Charlotte Makepeace as a person (both internally and externally) and not taken so long (probably requiring around forty percent of Penelope Farmer’s text) to both get into Charlotte Sometimes and to also become sufficiently acquainted with main protagonist Charlotte on an intimate and personal reading pleasure level. For while I actually did start personally enjoying Charlotte Makepeace more and more the further along I got with Charlotte Sometimes I do kind of think that reading the third of the Aviary Hall novels before the first two (or like me not having actually read the first two series stories) kind of does rather tend to throw a reader right into Charlotte Makepeace as a character, as a person in medias res so to speak, with me finding until Charlotte and Clare get stranded (in the past for Charlotte Makepeace and in the future for Clare Moby) that Charlotte is not really all that interesting (and especially if compared to Clare Moby’s sister Emily), as Penelope Farmer does seem to write more about Emily than about Charlotte at first (and perhaps because she assumes her readers to already know enough about the latter from the previous two Aviary Hall instalments).

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Ortenzi, Rob (7 August 2008). "Charlotte Sometimes". Alternative Press. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010 . Retrieved 25 June 2012. a b David Rees, "The Marble in the Water: Penelope Farmer". In The Marble in the Water: Essays on Contemporary Writers of Fiction for Children and Young Adults, The Horn Book, Inc., 1980, pp. 1–13. Quoted in Children's Literature Review, Vol. 8. Gale Research Company, 1985. Ostensibly a time-travel book, this little gem is actually more about figuring out who one really is. Lots of interesting historical detail thrown in besides. And it's got the perennial hook of boarding school to add to the allure. The characters rang true- especially the confusion and dismay and mustering of wits. Recommended. Part II, chapter 2, paragraph 37: “Good night, Mr. Chisel Brown,” she said with almost a curtsy. “Good night, Mrs. Chisel Brown. Good night, Miss Agnes Chisel Brown. Good night, cat. Good night, dog . . ..” Part II, chapter 4, 1st sentence: Night after night, Charlotte lay in bed with her eyes open to the dark . . . .

One day, Charlotte learns what has become of Emily and Clare through a conversation with Sarah. Sarah's mother is Emily, and Clare died in the flu epidemic after the war. Later, Charlotte and Elizabeth discuss the events Charlotte has experienced. They find the exercise book in one of the legs of the bed, where it has been for forty years. It includes the last letter Charlotte wrote to Clare. Influence, adaptations and similar novels Audio and television adaptations Influence Similar novels of the period However, that's not the bulk of it. It is more about Charlotte's relationship with Emily, Claire's little sister. Emily ruined the book for me. She's a nasty little shit. I kept hoping an air raid would take her out. She's that rotten, destructive type of child so common in older literature that we're all supposed to think is funny and adorable, like Eloise who lives in the fancy schmancy hotel and deliberately damages property. Book 2nd paragraph, 6th sentence: The light seemed to bright for them, glaring on white walls . . . . Robert Smith Interview 2008 Part2 – YouTube". YouTube. 13 December 2008. Archived from the original on 2021-12-22 . Retrieved 15 June 2013.