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pameladeanI keep forgetting to make notes of this stuff.
Books I have recently read and am pondering:
THE FALL OF THE KINGS, by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. This has so many beauties and delights I'd have to write another book to list them, but for much of it just the same I felt there was a glass wall between me and the characters. I'm going to read it again sometime in the next few months, since that will be no trouble whatsoever, and see if the reaction was just something wrong with me, or what.
WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER, by Carol Plum-Ucci. Courtesy of Sharyn November, the brilliant editor who is reissuing the Secret Country books. The writer is a good writer. The characters are good and believeable and quirky; parts of it are very funny and parts very moving and parts frankly terrifying. I didn't want to put it down, but I stopped reading at bedtime several times because I knew Bad Things were going to happen and I didn't want to sleep on them. However. The book is one of those is it or isn't it borderline fantasies, squint this way and it's a goblet, fantasy, squint the other and it's two faces, not fantasy. I don't like where the line is drawn. It bugs me a great deal. Must compost.
I'm presently in the middle of C.J. Cherryh's EXPLORER, the last of the Foreigner series. I love this series, I love the characters, and I am in awe of how she seems to be reiterating the same old thing and then pulls about a hundred and fifty really big toothy pink rabbits out of a hat I didn't see. I'm having a great time and am genuinely not sure of the outcome. The book was badly proofed, however, which is very annoying. You'd think in these days of spelling checkers a publisher could at least not put out a book that keeps saying, "resistence."
Pamela
Books I have recently read and am pondering:
THE FALL OF THE KINGS, by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. This has so many beauties and delights I'd have to write another book to list them, but for much of it just the same I felt there was a glass wall between me and the characters. I'm going to read it again sometime in the next few months, since that will be no trouble whatsoever, and see if the reaction was just something wrong with me, or what.
WHAT HAPPENED TO LANI GARVER, by Carol Plum-Ucci. Courtesy of Sharyn November, the brilliant editor who is reissuing the Secret Country books. The writer is a good writer. The characters are good and believeable and quirky; parts of it are very funny and parts very moving and parts frankly terrifying. I didn't want to put it down, but I stopped reading at bedtime several times because I knew Bad Things were going to happen and I didn't want to sleep on them. However. The book is one of those is it or isn't it borderline fantasies, squint this way and it's a goblet, fantasy, squint the other and it's two faces, not fantasy. I don't like where the line is drawn. It bugs me a great deal. Must compost.
I'm presently in the middle of C.J. Cherryh's EXPLORER, the last of the Foreigner series. I love this series, I love the characters, and I am in awe of how she seems to be reiterating the same old thing and then pulls about a hundred and fifty really big toothy pink rabbits out of a hat I didn't see. I'm having a great time and am genuinely not sure of the outcome. The book was badly proofed, however, which is very annoying. You'd think in these days of spelling checkers a publisher could at least not put out a book that keeps saying, "resistence."
Pamela
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Date: 2002-12-09 11:17 am (UTC)As for the offer -- *fluster* -- I thought you were supposed to get paid for that kind of thing!
I can always use another eye at the stage where I have a finished rough draft and am sure that this is really not a book, so, quite conceivably.
P.
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Date: 2002-12-09 12:13 pm (UTC)i would be HONORED to read your work in progress.