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snugglekittyThis week is the week of reading YA fantasy. Magicians of Caprona did start to seem a bit familiar, so I'm not really sure if I read it before or not. Either way, I don't think it's Diana Wynne Jones' best work. Three stars.
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7j. I really enjoyed the collection. My favorite stories were Raffidilee, Rampion, and The Fall of Ys, the last of which I had read before. (This is not Ms. Pierce the fantasy writer who wrote the Tortall books (Alanna etc), if anyone is wondering. This is Ms. Pierce the fantasy writer who wrote the Darkangel trilogy, as well as The Woman Who Loved Reindeer, if anybody wants to explore her work further.) Four stars - the stories that I liked, I really liked.
Next up is socially conscious non-fiction! After a long wait, I finally got my hands on a copy of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, andceelove loaned me Cradle2Cradle which I've been hearing great things about. Plus the exhibition book for Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, which was recently featured at the Smith College Museum of Art.
As a side note, the Cambridge Public Library was happy to receive my copy of Telzey Amberdon. They had the entire rest of the Federation series, and were only missing that, which is the first volume. Now I can get the rest of the series out of the library. Yay!
And the Somerville West Branch now apparently has the first of the many books I requested through ILL - a pagan exploration of what it means to love our bodies. I'll pick it up tomorrow. Can't wait.
I followed that up with Waters Luminous and Deep, a short-story collection by Meredith Ann Pierce that I picked up while in Northampton with
7j. I really enjoyed the collection. My favorite stories were Raffidilee, Rampion, and The Fall of Ys, the last of which I had read before. (This is not Ms. Pierce the fantasy writer who wrote the Tortall books (Alanna etc), if anyone is wondering. This is Ms. Pierce the fantasy writer who wrote the Darkangel trilogy, as well as The Woman Who Loved Reindeer, if anybody wants to explore her work further.) Four stars - the stories that I liked, I really liked.Next up is socially conscious non-fiction! After a long wait, I finally got my hands on a copy of That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, and
ceelove loaned me Cradle2Cradle which I've been hearing great things about. Plus the exhibition book for Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, which was recently featured at the Smith College Museum of Art.As a side note, the Cambridge Public Library was happy to receive my copy of Telzey Amberdon. They had the entire rest of the Federation series, and were only missing that, which is the first volume. Now I can get the rest of the series out of the library. Yay!
And the Somerville West Branch now apparently has the first of the many books I requested through ILL - a pagan exploration of what it means to love our bodies. I'll pick it up tomorrow. Can't wait.