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Summary: A great fantasy book for all ages
Review: I was nine years old when I found a copy of Charlotte Sometimes in the local library. I was in boarding school in England at the time, and the impact that Charlotte made on me was "close to home"! In the past 14 years since I first shared Charlotte's world, I have never forgotten this book. Now to find it on Amazon.com is wonderful, I thought that I'd never find a copy! And to find out there are sequels! I am so greatful to Amazon. Now I plan to share this book with my future children some day. And yes, I too was sure that "The Cure" did write the song for this book.
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Summary: Charlotte Sometimes: a reflection.
Review: I was nine years old when I found a copy of Charlotte Sometimes in the local library. I was in boarding school in England at the time, and the impact that Charlotte made on me was "close to home"! In the past 14 years since I first shared Charlotte's world, I have never forgotten this book. Now to find it on Amazon.com is wonderful, I thought that I'd never find a copy! And to find out there are sequels! I am so greatful to Amazon. Now I plan to share this book with my future children some day. And yes, I too was sure that "The Cure" did write the song for this book.
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Summary: Sequels to Charlotte Sometimes
Review: If you enjoyed Charlotte Sometimes, you may want to read Emma in Winter, which is about Charlotte's younger sister. There is another book about the two girls, written before Charlotte leaves for boarding school, but I have forgotten the name. It may have been called the Summer Birds. At any rate, check it out!
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Summary: A great fantasy book for all ages
Review: Like several people who wrote reviews of this book, I borrowed it because of my fondness for the Cure song of the same name. For you Cure fans out there, from the very first sentence you can see Farmer's influence on the lyrics and the dark mood of the song, which is a great bonus for people who love the song. And the story also stands on its own merits. It is a wonderful story about a young girl who finds herself losing her identity when she switches places with another girl. I highly recommend it to people of all ages.The local library by my house has just about all of Penelope Farmer's books, and I plan on checking out and reading all of them. I'm still also on a quest to find a copy of Charlotte Sometimes to own myself.
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Summary: ThAnk YOu RObERt SmIth!!!!!!
Review: Okay, yeah, I'm glad to find out that I'm not the only person out there who reads books becos some rock star tells her to! But I was just wandering around some Cure sites, and found out that both the songs "Charlotte Sometimes" and "A Letter to Elise" (my favorites, but that's another story) were based on this book. I vaguely rememberd having a copy from when I was wee, so I freed it from the attic and read it, and damn was it great! You don't know quite where it's going until the very end...read it, you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Attention Cure Fans
Review: The band The Cure ( my favourite!) wrote a song about this book of the same name. If you have wondered about it read the whole story, the video for the song is based on the book as well. The book is very good
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Summary: Farmer's prose heightens fantasy like quality
Review: The stark lyrical prose of Farmer heightens the haunting tale of Charlotte and Clare. I find that this book not only has the fantasy quality of a good science fiction read, but that the plot also serves to emphasize Charlotte's search for her own place in time, so to speak.
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Summary: IDENTITY CRISIS: CHARLOTTE ALWAYS?
Review: This book has remained one of my favorite YA novels which I discovered as an adult, after the explosion of YA literature in the 60's (too late for my childhood!) Now any Time Travel book involves careful detailing by the author in advance, to establish the Laws of time travel and avoid anachronisms. How is the protagonist transported back and then forward again in time? (In this case the vehicle is a bed in a girls' dorm.) Must she go back far enough in time to preceed her own birth or can she witness herself at a younger age? Is she allowed to interact with her own ancestors or try to change national or even family history? Can she actually change places with a real person from the Past or merely fit in as an unknown entity in another age? What happens to the person from the Past who is suddenly placed in a modern settting? Won't people in the Past and the Present realize that they are dealing with imposters? Do they look and sound that much alike? Heavy problems to resolve, but Penelope Farmer handles them all with grace and skill, leaving hardly any loose threads. Her heroine, Charlotte, attends a boarding school where she is pleased but puzzled to be taken under the wing of a kindly older girl--whose mother had asked her to be a special friend to Charlotte, if she ever met her. All throughout the story we keep wondering which of the girls she meets in the Past will turn out to be this sympathetic mother. Charlotte is trapped on an endless temporal seesaw, never knowing in which Time (40 years' difference) she will awaken. She and her alter-ego, Clare, are doomed to never meet face to face, yet they each learn much about the other. I admired their ingenuity in keeping a mutual journal and hiding notes in the hollowed bedpost. But why does Charlotte allow the girls in the Past to accept her as Clare; she does not protest that they mistake her for someone else. She lets the girls of the Past claim her as their own, which gradually erases her true, contemporary persona. Is she so diss! atisfied with herself and her life that she is willing to become someone else? Will she be destined to remain forever in the Past as Clare? Does she lack the will and desire to preserve her true identity? Will she ever become Charlotte Always? A Fabulous tale which will enthrall and mystify the reader!
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Summary: An interesting book that no one seems to have read!
Review: This book is really neat. I remember reading it a long time ago, when I was in fifth or sixth grade. I really like the idea that she and Clare change places. The historical information is nice too
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Summary: fairy tale for adults
Review: this book is wonderful. a mythologization of stubborn bits of reality. charlotte, a very alive child, begins to disassociate from reality when sent away to boarding school. soon she begins to switch places with her saintly doppleganger claire, of a different day and age. virtually no one notices the frequent replacements, which initially lead to major identity issues. eventually, however, charlotte's brief entry into the world of claire, causes her world to take on existential value, and everything becomes meaningful.
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