My favorite Imaginary Book

[ellen_kushner]

As promised:

From Ysabeau S. Wilce's brilliant "Flora" series, beginning with FLORA SEGUNDA:

"A series of yellowback novels called Nini Mo: Coyote Queen."

Nini Mo is badass. She is a fighter and a trickster, a legend in her own time.  Some of the yellowbacks Flora mentions are Nini Mo vs. the Ice Weasels: the Ultimate Ranger Dare . . . Nini Mo vs. the

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[jettcat]

Secretly, I believe Stick Wizard is XKCD....

[ladywind]

Seconded.

[kate_schaefer]

I adore Ysabeau's books. My granddaughter, on the other hand, hates them. Not because she didn't enjoy them, mind you; she did. What she hates is that the series isn't complete, so she's left hanging and waiting to find out what happens next. "There had better be a happy ending," she says.

[ricevermicelli]

I loved "Flora's Fury" in every possible way, except for the way it was advertised as the completion of a trilogy. It's strewn with loose ends and plot bait! We need at *least* another book!

[ecmyers]

I would love some Nini Mo books! Or at least a collection of her sayings.

[ricevermicelli]

Me too.

I've been undergoing chemotherapy, and finding Nini Mo's wisdom indispensable. She's most famous for "Dare, win, or disappear," which maybe doesn't so much apply (although now and then, when someone's coming at me with a needle, it does help me sit still), but some of the others are strangely applicable - "That day, that sorrow." "Never pass up a chance to pee." Nearly everything quoted in the main post here, actually, works pretty well.

[suzanna_o]

"Dare, Win, or Disappear."

I love this saying--and Nini Mo.