The Mahy is excellent. She's written some other Young Adult novels, but The Changeover remains my favorite. Her settings and characters read as real as my next-door neighbors.
If this is strong-arming, I've been doing it wrong.
Hmmm...compared to that, you could be accused of overkill. But I prefer to chalk it up to differences in personal style, each in your own particular...idiom, sir? Idiom!
And after you read The Changeover, you can read The Tricksters, which is the best novel about a teenage fantasy writer ever! Okay, so there isn't much competition. But it's still The Best.
*cough* Erm. The Prince of Midnight is actually the one Kinsale I never reread. So if you don't like it, it's Not My Fault.
I think I need coffee. Perhaps coffee will end this gratuitous abuse of capitals.
Okay, so there isn't much competition. But it's still The Best.
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::dutifully adds book to list::
...the one Kinsale I never reread.
Well, rats. This is what happens when I write down authors without titles; I guess, and everything goes kablooey. On the other hand, this way it can only get better; I'll borrow Truepenny's new acquisitions at some point, I'm sure.
You know, I think I might have read Prince of Midnight when it came out, but I'm not sure. There was this whole pre-xmas blur of reading historicals at the end of 1990, because romances were my assigned genre at the bookstore. I remember the cover of this one but not whether I read it, and in fact I'm not even sure the timing's right (could be a subsequent round of employment), and I'm too lazy to get up and go check the publication date.
And yes, I do remember that I promised that -- along with stuff about Firefly. Of course, I also owe Laura a post on narrative from, let's see, two months ago? When they make the movie of my terminally undramatic life, they can use "ultimately responsible but very seldom timely" as the tag line.
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One of my favorite books ever...
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Hmmm...compared to that, you could be accused of overkill. But I prefer to chalk it up to differences in personal style, each in your own particular...idiom, sir? Idiom!
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*cough* Erm. The Prince of Midnight is actually the one Kinsale I never reread. So if you don't like it, it's Not My Fault.
I think I need coffee. Perhaps coffee will end this gratuitous abuse of capitals.
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::snerks::
::dutifully adds book to list::
...the one Kinsale I never reread.
Well, rats. This is what happens when I write down authors without titles; I guess, and everything goes kablooey. On the other hand, this way it can only get better; I'll borrow Truepenny's new acquisitions at some point, I'm sure.
You know, I think I might have read Prince of Midnight when it came out, but I'm not sure. There was this whole pre-xmas blur of reading historicals at the end of 1990, because romances were my assigned genre at the bookstore. I remember the cover of this one but not whether I read it, and in fact I'm not even sure the timing's right (could be a subsequent round of employment), and I'm too lazy to get up and go check the publication date.
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I flash Miranda Otto at you in an enticing fashion.
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Do it again. *g*
And yes, I do remember that I promised that -- along with stuff about Firefly. Of course, I also owe Laura a post on narrative from, let's see, two months ago? When they make the movie of my terminally undramatic life, they can use "ultimately responsible but very seldom timely" as the tag line.
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