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Kerrie
Registered User
(12/10/00 2:15:02 pm)
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New books...
I was just searching randomly through Amazon, when I rediscovered *Fairy Dreams* by Carol McLean-Carr. Karen, have you run across any info on this author recently (we had talked about her WAY back, on the first board, I think). Just curious if anyone has seen this book- the preview images I saw in Design Graphics magazine were impressive.
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Jenna
Unregistered User
(12/13/00 8:50:03 am)
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new books
I haven't seen it, but I'd like to know more about it, Kerrie. Does anyone here have any good book recommendations? I've read the new Napoli (loved it), the new Francesca Lia Block (yawn), and I'm in need of some new fiction for my bedside reading stack.
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GanFae
Unregistered User
(12/13/00 12:00:27 pm)
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Monica Furlong
Have you read 'Juniper' and/or 'Wise Child' by Monica Furlong? This is young adult material and a quick read, but no matter how many times I read them (I think I've lost count by now) they remain two of my favorite books. I lend these two to all of my friends and recommend them to anyone who (especially women) to read them. A friend once told me, sometime after I passed this series on to her, that she had heard of a new one on the way by this author. But if this is so it was never fulfilled.
~~GanFae
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karen
Unregistered User
(12/13/00 5:50:54 pm)
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Kerrie, I thought you might like this....
I do remember the Carol McLean-Carr discussion. I don't know more, but I found a web site I thought you might like by Mclean-Carr and a number of other children's illustrators. features a lot of flash animation and fairies. Apparently, you can make your own monster:
www.bigblue.com.au
K.
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Kerrie
Registered User
(12/13/00 7:18:33 pm)
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Re: Kerrie, I thought you might like this....
That's it! It's so beautiful, all of the details! Thank you!
Kerrie
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Catja
Unregistered User
(12/13/00 7:54:11 pm)
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books
Margaret Mahy's _The Tricksters_ is fantastic; it's also YA, but it's very intellectually challenging by any standard -- incredible, thought-provoking story, beautifully told, and one of my all-time favorites. If you haven't read Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" Trilogy (_The Golden Compass_, _The Subtle Knife_, and the newly released _The Amber Spyglass_), run out and get it as soon as you can! I'm eagerly awaiting the third book from Amazon. Alan Garner's _The Owl Service_ is a gorgeous, eerie classic based upon Welsh mythology. Also, _The China Garden_ by Liz Berry is wonderful: a girl and her mother return to the family homestead in Somerset, and discover their magical heritage as Guardians of the land -- nice eco-feminist fantasy. In a quieter vein, Mary Stewart's _Thornyhold_ is also a favorite; the heroine inherits a gorgeous little house in the English countryside, which formerly belonged to a witchy herbalist relation -- sweet story, with lots of interesting herb lore. This is one of those books that has shaped my plans for the future -- I want a house, and a life, just like that!
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Heidi
Unregistered User
(12/13/00 10:43:00 pm)
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Don't forget
Tanith Lee's new "White as Snow" is out now.
And I will second the motion for Monica Furlong. "Juniper" and "Wise Child" are excellent.
Heidi
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GanFae
Unregistered User
(12/14/00 1:25:45 pm)
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And I second the motion....
...for Mary Stewart's 'Thornyhold'. This was such a nice book to curl up with (literally with my purring kitting in my lap rocking in my favorite chair in front of a blazing fire with a steaming mug of spice tea within reach).
Catja~~I know just what you mean about the house (very enchanting and homey) and the life! =)
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Helen
Registered User
(12/14/00 3:35:58 pm)
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Motion carried ...
Monica Furlong is wonderful! I too keep hearing rumors of a new book, but it never comes out. Other really great things too look up ... hmmm. Definitely Caroline Stevermer's College of Magics, though I didn't like her last one as much. Mary Gentle's Books of Ash series is great if you like pseudo-scholarly adventure stories (i.e., A.S. Byatt's Possession, but with more action in the past, and only epistolary stuff in the present - rather like Possession inverted). Ann Downer's Spell-Key trilogy. Pamela Dean's Tam Lin. Storm Constantine's Wreathu Series.
***I miss reading***
...Just one more week to go, and then I get my life back - anyone
else have any ideas for what to read when I do?
Edited by: Helen at: 12/14/00
3:36:56 pm
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GanFae
Unregistered User
(12/14/00 4:52:20 pm)
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Book of the keepers(?)
I happened upon Ann Downer in my now local library and simply adored this book. The book collector who wasn't what he seemed (ack I forget his name?!) was a charming and amsuing character and possessed such a wealth of treasures to make any booklover envious.
For those of you who are into dragons and elves and halflings.... Elvenbane by Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton is another of my favorites. I've always been fascinated by different views and this gives a great telling of life and history from a Dragon's way. It's also got a strong endearing heroine and a good amount of adventure to boot.
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GanFae
Unregistered User
(12/14/00 4:57:06 pm)
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small addition
Oh and if anyone has not read 'Shadow Castle' but Marian Cockrell, please do. This is a classic (copyright 1945) and I sincerely doubt you'd be dissapointed.
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Kerrie
Registered User
(12/14/00 6:52:35 pm)
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Another query...
Has anyone heard of Merchant of Marvels, Peddlar of Dreams? I skimmed it at a book store when it first came out, and it looked magical and relxing and peaceful. That dreams can be found out there...
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GanFae
Unregistered User
(12/15/00 12:46:14 pm)
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another suggestion
Something I've read recently that I thoroughly enjoyed and found hard to put down was Joan D. Vinge's 'Snow Queen'.
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Terri
Registered User
(12/16/00 2:12:52 am)
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slightly off-topic
Jenna, this is slightly off-topic (my apologies), but I think you'd enjoy Sara Smith's fiction, if you haven't come across it already: The Vanished Child, The Knowledge of Water, and then there's a third in the series, can't remember the name. They are turn-of-the-century mystery novels full of art, music, feminism, and other things I know you love; the first one is set in Boston, the second one (my favorite) in Paris at the time of Colette, and they're both delicious. The third one is new and I haven't read it yet, but Ellen Steiber says is great. Disclaimer: Sara is a friend of ours, so of course I'm partial to her work. But I think you'll love it too.
It's nice to see books by Caroline Stevermer, Pam Dean and Ann Downer recommended here. They are also friends...and damn good writers.
I'm about to plunge into serious reading for the next "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" anthology, so I'll let you know if I find anything good. By the way, I've just learned that David Hartwell is launching his own "Year's Best Fantasy" annual, to be published by HarperCollins/Avon, because ours strays too far from the fantasy genre; we keep publishing those pesky mainstream writers like Byatt, Oates, Millhauser, Atwood, Marquez. Shame on us.
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Gregor9
Registered User
(12/16/00 6:04:31 am)
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Shame
Terri,
You and Ellen will just have to live with the burden of knowing you've dragged fantasy and horror into the awful degradation of mainstream. Or is it vice versa? So good of DH to right this terrible wrong (snicker).
GF
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CoryEllen
Registered User
(12/16/00 6:57:12 pm)
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Shame Indeed!
I found the perfect word to describe Hartwell's so-very-noble rationale:
UGH.
(There's a facial expression that goes with it - the effect is kinda lost here)
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Catja
Unregistered User
(12/21/00 1:21:13 pm)
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Peddlar of Dreams
Kerrie,
I haven't heard of that book specifically, but it sounds interesting. I'm replying because when you mentioned it, it triggered my memories of L.M. Montgomery; in the "Emily" series (_Emily of New Moon_, _Emily Climbs_, _Emily's Quest_), about a young writer, Emily's first novel is called _A Seller of Dreams_ (or something like that). Same premise as your book, it sounds like. The "Emily" series would fit in nicely with the discussion the creation of art in literature -- Emily is a writer, and her soul mate Teddy is a painter. Interestingly, Emily burns _Seller of Dreams_; the man she is engaged to (not Teddy, which is why he's such a rotter) is deeply jealous of the care she lavishes on her writing, and tells her the book isn't any good. Humiliated, she destroys the manuscript; only later, after she's dumped him, does he confess that it was wonderful.
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PaulGC
Unregistered User
(12/21/00 2:06:31 pm)
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Books
Thank you for all the great suggestions! I liked Patricia Wrede's -Enchanted Forest series- It is young fiction, but very good.
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