How Pamela Dean changed (and also saved) my life.

[seanan_mcguire]

(I thought a lot about whether this needed a trigger warning, and decided that it was better to err on the side of caution. So...TW: very oblique and carefully worded mention of a suicide attempt.)

I don't think it's any secret that I am a voracious reader. I read constantly. My friend Michelle has commented on more than one occasion that she,

Comments

[purpleranger]

Do any of these high school sonnets still exist?

[seanan_mcguire]

Yes.

[purpleranger]

Any chance that these will be collected, like Shakespeare's Sonnets?

[seanan_mcguire]

Nope.

[pameladean]

I am so, so glad that you made it through. You are a force for good and wonder and amazement, the numinous and the wonderfully strange. And if I had never had the October Daye books, I'd have felt something was missing, even if I didn't know what it was.

I feel it was Janet more than me who did that, and I am grateful to her.

P.

[seanan_mcguire]

You are an amazement, and always will be. Thank you, so much, forever.

<3

[seanan_mcguire]

HUGS!!!!!

[morningapproach]

I am definitely going to read it, based on your recommendation!

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[bercilakslady]

I'm really glad you're here.

I've loved Tam Lin since Kate introduced me to it back a long time ago now.

[seanan_mcguire]

It's a beautiful book.