for some reason I feel this way about Georgia/Georgette/whoever she is and about Pamela Dean! But maybe I just wouldn't like those two EVEN THOUGH I WANT TO.
Well, I guess you are a better judge of what you would actually like than I am! And I am glad to provide entertainment EVEN IF the books themselves might not. *laughing*
Becca! Would I like it? I keep reading reviews of Pamela Dean books that make them sound like I'd get angry at them for being SO CLOSE to right up my alley and then being instead down an adjacent side street. But I feel like I could at least hear this one arguing with its boyfriend at night if I stuck my head out the window. Or ... mating with another cat ... I'm not sure what it is in this metaphor. I miss books.
I think you might like these books! I would definitely recommend them to you over Tam Lin, which I think would be down an alley close enough that you could hear it, but the sound that you could hear would be people having strong opinions on things that you care about enough to be annoyed that their opinions are wrong. As opposed to in this case where the sound coming from the adjacent alley might be . . . friendly cats?
. . . okay I can't do the metaphor either, but it's probably worth trying. All the kids get irrationally sulky over things I also would get irrationally sulky over in fantasyland situations, I would like it for that alone!
I read the first book for this a long time back - I don't recall a lot, but I do remember finding it a DEEPLY WEIRD BOOK even though I could understand it was did get that it was jumping down on all the magic kingdom tropes with a vengeance.
But for reasons I could never fathom, the second book VANISHED from bookstores, leaving the third book there taunting me, so I never did manage to finish the series >_>
Oh, it is a truly weird book. I am kind of amazed it sold - I mean, delighted that it did, because I love it! So thank you to whichever publisher picked it up initially, you have made me and a small but no doubt dedicated audience very happy.
TRAGEDY! :O The only one I actually own is the third book, admittedly, though I plan to fix that eventually.
Haven't read the Secret Country series yet, but I've read both Tam Lin and The Dubious Hills. I love Tam Lin to bits, but I agree that The Dubious Hills is crafted better because the plot has to keep moving, since the characters can't hang out in college for four years. My only gripe is that I wanted more background information about how their (Dubious Hills) world works instead of having to figure it out as I read. But I forgive that for the awesome fact that the spells are poetry!
Of course the spells are poetry! It's PAMELA DEAN. I am not sure she is capable of writing a book without throwing in a half-ton of Shakespeare quotes (which is one of the reasons I love her!)
I really did enjoy working out how the Dubious Hills worked from hints and clues, actually. It was fun! Although I grant possibly disorienting at first.
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. . . okay I can't do the metaphor either, but it's probably worth trying. All the kids get irrationally sulky over things I also would get irrationally sulky over in fantasyland situations, I would like it for that alone!
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But this I want to read because lol IC/OOC!
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But for reasons I could never fathom, the second book VANISHED from bookstores, leaving the third book there taunting me, so I never did manage to finish the series >_>
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TRAGEDY! :O The only one I actually own is the third book, admittedly, though I plan to fix that eventually.
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Which suddenly seems a tragedy of inestimable proportion.
Or at least makes me slightly cross.
But I'll put them on the "Someday" list. :)
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I really did enjoy working out how the Dubious Hills worked from hints and clues, actually. It was fun! Although I grant possibly disorienting at first.
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