Smakebit: Every Heart a Doorway

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Söndag och dags för en ganska lång smakbit från Seanan McGuires Every Heart a Doorway som handlar om en internatskola för de där barnen som öppnat magiska dörrar, fallit ner i kaninhål eller gått igenom en tavla till en annan värld, men som sen, oftast ofrivilligt, kommit tillbaka. I utdraget så är det Nancys andra dag på skolan och hon har just haft en orienterande lektion med terapeuten Lundy och det avslutas med att hon får ställa frågor:

     "Why are there so many more girls here than boys?"
     "Because 'boys will be boys' is a self-fulfilling prophecy," said Lundy. "They're too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked; when they disappear from the home, parents send search parties to dredge them out of swamps and drag them away from frog ponds. It's not innate. It's learned. But it protects them from the doors, keeps them safe at home. Call it irony, if you like, but we spend so much time waiting for our boys to stray that they never have the opportunity. We notice the silence of men. We depend on the silence of women."
     "Oh," said Nancy. It made sence, in its terrible way. Most of the boys she'd known were noisy creatures, encouraged to be so by their parents and friends. Even when they were naturally quiet, they forced themselves to be loud, to avoid censure and mockery. How many of them could have slipped through an old wardrobe or into a rabbit's den and simply disappeared without sending up a thousand alarms? They would have been found and dragged back home before they reached the first enchanted mirror or climbed the first forbidden tower.

Fler smakbitar kan man läsa hos Mari. Jag ska fortsätta läsa lite på bussen, tänkte ta mig till stadsbiblioteket idag. Hoppas att ni också får en trevlig söndag :)