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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 01:42 am
Into the Green by Charles de Lint. This is kinda tricky to talk about as I don't know how I feel. I say 'yes' to reading it and enjoyed it but am having my usual post de Lint moment where I am lost for words.

Undead and Unpopular by Maryjanice Davidson. Book five in the series and losing it's charm. Needs a new plot device. It's hard to read about stupid people.

Tea with the Black Dragon by R. A. MacAvoy. I enjoyed it, but an older heroine who sits in zazen and a computer hacking component dates this story quite firmly. The finest character is Mayland, a dragon slowly losing himself as he struggles to come to terms with human philosphy and human love.

To Ride a Rathorn by P.C. Hodgell. I am so hooked, from the first page this incredible world has me filled with love. I adore the complex richness, the way they know the last of the earth tremors must be dying down because the catfish have started coming back down out of the mountains. I love the incredibly integrated slide between boundaries of animate and inanimate, living and dead. I love how the heroine is carrying incredible power and yet still remains accessible.
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006 09:34 pm
His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman which was just as good as the last time I read it. Fabulous fantasy. High quality not quite Young Adult reading.

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay because it was there. I pimp this to you.

Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton which was short and stolen from [livejournal.com profile] ascetic_hedony as soon as he finished gloating over having it.

Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson which was what would have happened if Buffy had been turned immediately rather than being discovered - a vampire with an obsession with designer shoes and good hair. Cheap but funny.