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ironymaiden) wrote2007-03-12 03:40 pm
ironymaiden) wrote2007-03-12 03:40 pm
lady hero
i tore through Sunshine over the weekend. a synopsis makes it sound exactly like a book i would dismiss immediately, but it turned out to be layered, mostly surprising, and a pleasure to read. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
webcowgirl has been selling this one for ages, and i often love Robin McKinley, sorry i waited.
unfortunately, this led me to look up the book so that i could link to it here. where i found a great horror of my life as a consumer of artistic endeavor - the creator doesn't really like my favorite anymore. *
my puppy has been roundly kicked. i love The Blue Sword. it was the first of her books that i read, and has remained my favorite. i just sent a copy to my niece for Christmas. (i started a mental list of the books i would be giving A a few months before she was born. i'm that aunt.) Angharad is totally on my list of baby names.(however unlikely it is that they get used.) i just babbled at people this weekend about how McKinley never wrote a third Damar book and it's set up in the other books and i don't care so much about her thing for fairy tale adaptations and The Hero and the Crown was okay but The Blue Sword, damn it's awesome, would you like to read it? i don't fangirl about fantasy novels too often, but it just makes me go wobbly inside. maybe it's because Our Heroine is awkwardly tall and reads novels? damn damn damn.
*(this stung enough when i was in college and Trent Reznor was dissing Pretty Hate Machine, the album that was the soundtrack of my life in '91-'92. it's difficult to recreate the experience now, what with being a pretty happy adult and the lack of the seamless playback of a cassette. but it was all right there in one package at the right time, and the day i read that interview was the day NIN lost a fan.)
webcowgirl has been selling this one for ages, and i often love Robin McKinley, sorry i waited.unfortunately, this led me to look up the book so that i could link to it here. where i found a great horror of my life as a consumer of artistic endeavor - the creator doesn't really like my favorite anymore. *
my puppy has been roundly kicked. i love The Blue Sword. it was the first of her books that i read, and has remained my favorite. i just sent a copy to my niece for Christmas. (i started a mental list of the books i would be giving A a few months before she was born. i'm that aunt.) Angharad is totally on my list of baby names.(however unlikely it is that they get used.) i just babbled at people this weekend about how McKinley never wrote a third Damar book and it's set up in the other books and i don't care so much about her thing for fairy tale adaptations and The Hero and the Crown was okay but The Blue Sword, damn it's awesome, would you like to read it? i don't fangirl about fantasy novels too often, but it just makes me go wobbly inside. maybe it's because Our Heroine is awkwardly tall and reads novels? damn damn damn.
*(this stung enough when i was in college and Trent Reznor was dissing Pretty Hate Machine, the album that was the soundtrack of my life in '91-'92. it's difficult to recreate the experience now, what with being a pretty happy adult and the lack of the seamless playback of a cassette. but it was all right there in one package at the right time, and the day i read that interview was the day NIN lost a fan.)