this is the second book that i've read by lisa goldstein, the first being dark cities underground. i'd compare it more with pamela dean's tam lin than that book, though. (i'd compare dark cities underground with neil gaiman's neverwhere for location, though not tone--i think that fantasies that take place in part in subway systems are getting to ( Read more... )

i've just finished the book you loaned me.

(for the uninformed, that book is letters from an actor by william redfield. it is a series of letters that redfield wrote while rehearsing and performing in a production of hamlet that was produced in 1964 that starred richard burton and was directed by john gielgud. through some odd coincidence, one ( Read more... )

i only read four books on this trip despite being gone for two weeks. i'm not including the three travel books that i brought along although i spent hours poring over them--i'm referring to books i read in their entirety. of course i have a good reason......

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