A Week to Be Wicked
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It is so fun being able to download books and carry them with me in a device which turns on instantly and is lighter than most paperbacks! I used to read sf where people had portable pocket libraries and be so envious. I am probably getting more enjoyment out of my Kindle than I would out of the much-mourned rocket cars ( Read more... )

Owain, a young Roman-Briton boy, is the only human survivor of a battle between his people and the invading Saxons. He and the hound he finds on the battlefield, whom he names Dog, head out in search of some place where they might belong. This turns out to be even more complicated than one might imagine, as Owain discovers when he comes to the ( Read more... )

After reading this book, I finally figured out what author Sutcliff reminded me of: Ursula Le Guin, circa A Wizard of Earthsea. The formal, slightly archaic, elegant style; the immersively detailed setting and culture; the alternation of leisurely description of place and daily life with intense scenes of action and emotion. If you like A Wizard of ( Read more... )

Midnight Never Come
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Year of the Unicorn (which has absolutely nothing to do with unicorns) was a favorite of mine when I was twelve or so. But I hadn’t read the loosely related The Crystal Gryphon until now.

I still like Unicorn very much, and though I’m sure I would have liked Gryphon more had I read it at the proper age, it’s still pretty good. Both novels have ( Read more... )