"It was the last place Ronan expected chickens."

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Went on Book Cruise last Saturday. That is, I went cruising for used books and cursed the local drivers. Acquired: one Tam Lin by Pamela Dean. I returned home in triumph, and was inspired to make inroads on my hoard of still-unread-after-a-year books. Yesterday: Robin McKinley's Deerskin. Freaked me out rather a lot, but was v. good all the same. Today: Patricia McKillip's In the Forests of Serre. It felt very much like Riddle-master, with which I am in love above all other books and/or trilogies. (Except maybe The Other Wind (Ursula K. LeGuin). Maybe.) The language is closer, and left me content rather than petrified (except I feel sort of sorry for Euan Ash). Or maybe that's just my comparative state of mind. These days I have to feel... reckless to pick up an unread McKillip book. They're so beautiful as to be intimidating. Perhaps it is time to re-read a few, as I have no new ones left, setting aside The Cygnet and the Firebird, which I will not read until I have the one that goes before it.

I really, really wish someone would re-issue the three volumes of Riddle-master with K.Y. Craft covers. Can you imagine?

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Acquired: one Tam Lin by Pamela Dean

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I. am going. to die. of envy. lucky! true, i could buy it online for a reasonable price, but it's so much more rewarding to find something you've been looking for in a store, and I've been hunting that one for years

Yesterday: Robin McKinley's Deerskin. Freaked me out rather a lot, but was v. good all the same.

I suppose I was freaked out by it the first time I read it. the part towards the beginning still makes me uncomfortable, but I have such a great love for this book (I'm usually in tears of rapture by the end) that I cannot remember being freaked out. hard to explain, s'just the book moves me to very strong emotions and I'm definately upset by the painful bits but it is totally an empathetic feeling... *blech words not working* anyways, I'm glad you read it ^_^

I should make it a goal to reread almost all of Patricia McKillip's books in the next few months, because there are some that for the life of me I can't remember the plots, even vaguely. of her 22 books I own 18, but there some I haven't reread for ages and ages. I really adore The Cygnet and the Firebird, but yes you should read The Sorceress and the Cygnet first. and then we can talk about them!

booksilovesthem ^_^

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it's so much more rewarding to find something you've been looking for in a store

'S the only way to buy. Problem is when a book you really, really want isn't old enough to be in used bookstores yet, particularly crummy little ones in the middle of nowhere.

On a further Robin McKinley note, does anybody know if she was a Classics major in college? All that stuff about Euripides in Beauty, and some stuff in the beginning of Deerskin was right out of some myth or other. *scratches head* Not like she needs more points in my Book of Merits, but still.