Fortunately, it seems only to be Americans who routinely spell "lose" with a double 'o'. This is the grammatical fault that makes me stabby. ... Well, more stabby than the other ones do.
Anyways, I am lax in that I did not reply to your previous nice reply to my reply to your post. So:
Yes, I have read The Plum Rain Scroll, but not for ages, and I don't know if I ever read the rest. Once I finish sorting out my book collection (ha!) I'll know if I even have them. Pretty sure my mum does, though, so I can borrow and read them at some point. Once I've got through all the other books I need to read at the moment...
Bridge of Birds is better than The Story of the Stone, which is better than Eight Skilled Gentlemen, but they're all stil well worth reading. Congrats on managing to find them! Luck is with you.
I managed to grab a (coverless) omnibus edition of TDIR sequence from a friendly bookseller a few years ago. I'm sure I'll manage to find it and re-read it before the film comes out. Really. Any day now...
I haven't read any Pamela Dean yet, but looking at her resume, I don't know how I've missed her. Will look out for her stuff - any "read first" recommendations?
Finally, I don't know how I managed to forget to recommend Janet Kagan's Mirabile - I picked this up on a whim years ago, and it's one of those books that I re-read at least once a year, just because it's so much fun!
I agree with you about the lose vs loose thing, but I am of the opinion it is in fact spreading. Much stabbing is certainly occuring in my neck of the woods.
re Pamela Dean, I haven't read all of her books either (they can be hard to find copies of, but I suppose that's something else I should look for on my continuing book-buying spree!) but I liked... um, I think it's called Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary, which my local library happened to have; and Tam Lin (fairy-tale retelling, obviously).
BoB and ESG have arrived but not TSotS yet (it's coming from the US), which means I don't want to start on them and then have to wait... grr!
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Well, more stabby than the other ones do.
Anyways, I am lax in that I did not reply to your previous nice reply to my reply to your post. So:
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re Pamela Dean, I haven't read all of her books either (they can be hard to find copies of, but I suppose that's something else I should look for on my continuing book-buying spree!) but I liked... um, I think it's called Juniper, Gentian and Rosemary, which my local library happened to have; and Tam Lin (fairy-tale retelling, obviously).
BoB and ESG have arrived but not TSotS yet (it's coming from the US), which means I don't want to start on them and then have to wait... grr!
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