The Snow Queen's Shadow

[sartorias]

Due to events, my reading has gotten behind, but the nice thing about books is that they are not fish, they do not spoil if you have to leave them for another day, and that day stretches out for a week or month

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[whswhs]

Why am I seeing the word "quadrology" or "quadrilogy" this year? Does it mean something different from the long established "tetralogy"?

Sorry, it looked so strange it quite distracted me from the actual content of your post. I must go back now and read the rest of it. . . .

[sartorias]

Me being stupid and headachy--will change.

[whswhs]

Alas, I must confess that I'm now both puzzled and distracted by Libriomancy, which you can't do anything about. Do you think it means "divination by books" (I would have written Bibliomancy) or "divination by the two-pan balance"? (The latter seems to fit the Latin root better, libr- vs. libri-, but I find it harder to visualize.) I was also bothered by its being a Latin beginning and Greek ending, but checking the dictionary, I see -mantia cited as Latin, from Greek -manteia, so I guess it's legitimate.

Yes, I really do get distracted when I'm reading and I run across that sort of coinage. I'm afraid it might cause me to put a book back on the shelf. I held out against reading Anathem for a long time because I didn't like the wordplay of the title, and it turned out to be really worth reading.

Anyway, thanks for the revision. The strange thing is that I've seen that form before this year, and not from you. . . .

[sartorias]

I'm sure I saw it somewhere recently and that's what my brain offered me. When I get headachy my vocab gets spotty.

[aberwyn]

I've done a number of tuckerizations in the Nola O'Grady books by now, one for charity, the others just for fun, but really, only the people tuckerized are going to notice. I made sure the characters were what they needed to be in the books. For instance, a guy who works in a bank has become a crack shot law enforcement officer. :-)

[sartorias]

It totally works in the Nola books--I wasn't aware of any Tuckerizations. Never got that 'neener you don't know the seeekrit' bump that never fails to poke me out of stories that can't resist hammering it in.

[temporus]

I recently read this as well. I enjoyed it very much. What I loved most about it, is that it's AN end. Not THE end. It completes the story, but gives the impression that things carry on. In some ways, for me it's almost a more impressive feat.

[sartorias]

YES!!!