My blog title could go for the fact that I discovered, to my disgust, that the weather forecast is for the nineties over Thanksgiving Blargh
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Fantasy readers are aware that there is no one type of fantasy. Dividing books up into subgenres can be tough all the more vexatious when one shows once labored over list to a couple of friends, just to hear, "How could you put those two together? This one belongs in that column," to which the other friend - of course - replies, "No, this series
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At SF-Site, my review* of Jim C. Hines’ newest novel, The Stepsister Sceheme, is up. As one can see from the cover what we have here are fightin’ princesses. Hines draws on various retellings of popular fairy tales and refashions the old tropes to appeal to contemporary readers
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