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[bookelfe]

shati and I sometimes play a game in bookstores when we look at the spines of YA books and attempt to guess genre/plot from the font of the title. We have a reasonable percentage of accuracy. However, we might have been thrown by the cover of Frances Hardinge's Well WitchedIf you look at this cover, you will probably think to yourself: oh, I know what

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[silveraspen]

Whaaaaat. *staring*

Oddly enough, I want to read that book now. Because it sounds like creepy fun!

[bookelfe]

It is! I really did like it a lot; it is creepy and dark and witty in all the right ways. (And aside from the awesome character development, Hardinge is brilliant at descriptions. Randomly chosen example: She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy. I am full of jealousy at how simple and also perfect that is. And she does it all the time!)

[deutscheami]

My personal favorite is Diane Duane's Stealing the Elf-King's Roses, which makes a sci-fi story about connected universes (and, well, elves, kind of) and magical lawyers look like the latest doofy Tolkien/Mercedes Lackey knock-off.

[bookelfe]

*cracks up* That is an EPICALLY Mercedes Lackey-ish cover. Actually what it looks like is one of those Mercedes Lackey/Piers Anthony cowritten books that I read too many of when I was twelve. Terrible cover or not, though, I totally need to read that one at some point.

[bookelfe]

short version: FIDDLEGASM *___*

long version: I am really glad I went to see the show, because I don't think I'd have appreciated it anywhere near as much off a computer or an iPod - just because the style is not as much my thing, in terms of aurals (I don't know if that's the word I want! Like visuals, but for ears?) that appeal to me. But seeing and hearing it live was amazing.

[bookelfe]

tl;dr is always welcome! :D

And yeah - not having a grounded backround at all in the tradition of that style of music, what I definitely got out of it the most (aside from the sheer joy-in-strings that I get from being a former string musician and having a good friend who's an amateur fiddler) is watching the energy between the players, and with the music.

[bookelfe]

*checks cover*

. . . I would have been surprised! :O

[bookelfe]

I just returned it to the NYPL so it is all yours! :D I think you would really like it. (See above, re: amazing descriptions, oh man.)