A darkly beautiful story, first in a trilogy by an author I hadn't yet read ( Read more... )

I usually don't spend much time with stories that happen in the world I live in. I get bored far too easily. I don't want to go here, I'm already here. Like taking a plane from my house to my house, it's an idea that doesn't seem worth it to me. I'm already in this world, I spent my day working here, I want to go somewhere else now ( Read more... )

The used bookstore had some things I was interested in, but at home I found a box.

It was under a table, a box of about a dozen books I meant to read a long time ago and never got around to. Then I stopped reading so much and forgot about it. Three McKillip novels I've never read (which is hard to believe), so I'll pull those out. Bujold's Sharing ( Read more... )

I'm nearing the end of my reread of Riddle-Master. It's certainly not the best of Patricia McKillip's stories, but it's interesting, particularly as her first. It's more in the style of a sweeping fantasy epic than her later stories, which tend to play a smaller, more intimate stage.

So many stories are told with sharp lines, with backgrounds and ( Read more... )