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Jan. 9th, 2009 04:27 pmToday I am full of interesting stuff.
The first is that Deborah Kalin's Shadow Queen is full of surprises. It's worth hunting out. She does some very clever things which I really want to talk about and can't, because they would definitely count as spoilers. So you're just going to have to read the book yourself.
I thought she and Alllen and Unwin were sending me (generously, via a blog offer) a standard fantasy* and right now I have no idea how she's going to make volume 2 work out. This is very unusual for me. It's also a very, very good thing. What's funny is that there's the same dissonance in Shadow Queen as in Twilight between how the heroine sees herself and how others see her, yet the novels are as different as different can be.
I had other news, but I forget it. Drabbit.
How about I give you a meme instead? A wrong one, too, because I'm not in the final stages of a PhD (isn't there a category for someone who graduates? or are doctorates supposed to be never-ending? in which case, I failed) and the choice between sets of books that I had read, well, I chose one at random because I had read all of the books listed. My view of this is that it makes me officially quite insane, since the lesser result is given as obsessive-compulsive.
Not only am I insane but inane and today my body temperature is 36 degrees, which makes me cool, inane and insane, which means I could be a character in a book, I think. Um. Maybe not. Maybe I should just pour myself some hot ginger drink and go back to my writing. My next scene has three ghosts in and I really ought to be writing it before dusk - I turn into something truly strange if I write ghosts after dusk.
*which puzzled me, because Tess was the one who alerted me to it, and Tess is not a standard fantasy kinda of person. Things make much more sense now.
The first is that Deborah Kalin's Shadow Queen is full of surprises. It's worth hunting out. She does some very clever things which I really want to talk about and can't, because they would definitely count as spoilers. So you're just going to have to read the book yourself.
I thought she and Alllen and Unwin were sending me (generously, via a blog offer) a standard fantasy* and right now I have no idea how she's going to make volume 2 work out. This is very unusual for me. It's also a very, very good thing. What's funny is that there's the same dissonance in Shadow Queen as in Twilight between how the heroine sees herself and how others see her, yet the novels are as different as different can be.
I had other news, but I forget it. Drabbit.
How about I give you a meme instead? A wrong one, too, because I'm not in the final stages of a PhD (isn't there a category for someone who graduates? or are doctorates supposed to be never-ending? in which case, I failed) and the choice between sets of books that I had read, well, I chose one at random because I had read all of the books listed. My view of this is that it makes me officially quite insane, since the lesser result is given as obsessive-compulsive.
Not only am I insane but inane and today my body temperature is 36 degrees, which makes me cool, inane and insane, which means I could be a character in a book, I think. Um. Maybe not. Maybe I should just pour myself some hot ginger drink and go back to my writing. My next scene has three ghosts in and I really ought to be writing it before dusk - I turn into something truly strange if I write ghosts after dusk.
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*which puzzled me, because Tess was the one who alerted me to it, and Tess is not a standard fantasy kinda of person. Things make much more sense now.