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Shané Oosthuizen

👤 Speaker
805 total appearances

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Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

And I did it on the cover too, because I thought if it was on a page, people could rip it out and be like, well, it was never yours.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

It was like, no, the cover.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

Wow, you had no trust.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

Yeah.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

You should sort of return to them, I guess.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

I think it's really special as well, that kind of – especially these sorts of books because, I mean, some of them are kind of technically written for kids but ostensibly also adults.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

And I think it's a bit of like that experience of watching a Disney movie as an adult versus reading it, obviously on a much deeper level, but versus watching it as a child.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

Like you're kind of reading it through your child's eyes and just taking that kind of excitement from it.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

But then growing up you are – it is – it's strange like growing up with the story but the story technically stays the same but it means so much and it means –

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

all these different things to you as you're experiencing it again through new eyes with your new experiences.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

It's so special.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

I think it's like, especially because I feel like most of us probably came into the industry because we were readers and we wanted to work around books.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

Like I think when I found out that Christopher Perlini was 19 when he wrote Eragon, I was like, what?

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

This is a job.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

I could do that.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

That's not that far away.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

10 years, I could do it.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

And then obviously that led to me wanting to kind of be involved in stories in some way, even though I didn't write a book.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

But I do get to work on them, which is exciting.

Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast
Peak nostalgia and pure magic: The fantasy books that shaped us as readers

But I think similarly as well, just the way those like little like fortuitous moments that happen because Murtaugh, which was like the next in that kind of series, which also was about a decade after the final book in the series that came out as well.