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[idiosyncreant]

Briefly, before we begin... I am having a moment of anger and disbelief so many people do not love the idea of The Carnie's Conspiracy. And am lamenting what I could be doing wrong...

On the other side of things, this morning I wrote a piece of flash (1000 words style...I need to cut out 47 words, if we're being strict here) titled:

The Fox of the

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[beth_shulman]

I would take a sequel to Sunshine. Although at the same time I love it just the way it is.

Authors, though:
Ellen Emerson White (who's just - kinda stopped)
Madeleine L'Engle
J. M. Barrie
Diana Wynne Jones

Um. Noel Streatfield, actually. I'd love a new book-I-could-have-grown-up-with.

[jade_sabre_301]

GOD I KNOW

I JUST

NEED MORE CONSTANTINE IN MY LIFE

HAVE I MENTIONED I'M A GIANT SUNSHINE FANGIRL it was like, I finished Twilight, stared at the book in my hands in disbelief for a minute, and then threw it over my shoulder and ran to read about real vampires.

CONSTANTINE also Mel also SO MUCH LEFT UNTOLD ALSO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

*FANGIRLS LIKE A CRAZY FOAMING MOUTH GUY*

[beth_shulman]

THIS EXACTLY.

I had given up hope after Twilight - I almost didn't read Sunshine because it had disillusioned me - and Sunshine WAS AWESOME.

*FANGIRLS RIGHT WITH YOU* I do think she said she'd consider a sequel... so maybe??

[idiosyncreant]

Seriously girls. Did you go read the interview at Sarah Rees Brennan's blog?

http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/178218.html

Because McKinley says "Mel in SUNSHINE (as I’ve said elsewhere) is the Most Criminally Underused Character in the McKinley Oeuvre" and MAN. This is true.

And this is the story in which I bought a two love-interests thing. Which I did not, in The Hero and The Crown, because really.

Con was fascinatingly alien (something I've never seen done so well in any vampire literature I've read, which is, admittedly, not truly a wide selection, but still...)

[jade_sabre_301]

CHALICE WAS REALLY REALLY GOOD, very light, compared to Sunshine, but still really, really good.

Pegasus does look fantastic though.

[idiosyncreant]

Well, it's cool to hear you say so! I heard good things about it, but it was more literary cool praise than fansquee.

And the story doesn't sound like the sort of thing I'd pick up, though that's what McKinley does, writing stories that are not what they would be summed up as...

PS: Have you read The Blue Sword? At what point in your life? And did you think it was a funny book? This is a survey.

[jade_sabre_301]

It was just like--it was what it was, you know? Not the most epic widesweeping fantasy novel ever, but wonderful in its own quiet little way.

yes, yes exactly.

P.S. YES, I do not even remember--when I was a teenager? And how are we defining "funny" here?

[idiosyncreant]

To me one of the huge parts of that book is the tongue-in-cheek jibes, the self-deprecating humor. So to me the whole sweeping fantasy saga form of the storyline was completely background to the adventures of a girl thrust into a foreign place she wants to love and be part of