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My teenagers stole my Kindle.
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posted by TerryMcCarthy at 4:53 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2009

Ok, Diane, I will look into Red of Kindle fame...
Please "friend" me again on FB as I must have been chatting up the wrong Diane...oops!
-Terry

posted by TerryMcCarthy at 10:59 am (EST) on Nov 3, 2009

Hi-
Hey, thanks for reading my book...oops, I "ignored" you on Facebook only to realize who you were later so I friended you sent you a message there. Sorry! I hope you got it. I enjoyed your comments, of course.
Nice to meet you online!
:)
-Terry

posted by TerryMcCarthy at 8:10 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2009

*nods* Right pantheon. ^-^ Additional reading... You mean in relation to Norse mythology or in general? If it's Norse anthology you want, I'd suggest looking into the Edda, but I'm afraid it's not an area I know a whole lot about, so I don't know which translation is 'best'. (And, truly, it'd probably be out of print if I did know.)

For general recommendations... It depends on what you're looking for and what you enjoy. I still haven't read any de Lint, so I can't use him to base recommendations of. If you enjoy reading about playwrights, you might enjoy King of Shadows by Susan Cooper. It's a YA book and focuses solely on Shakespeare, but the research Cooper did shows. (Unfortunately, it's not Cooper's best book and I'd recommend introducing yourself using her The Dark Is Rising sequence which is filled to the brim with Welsh legends and mythology. I'd recommend getting the omnibus version, really, as all five books individually are about the length of Little (Grrl) Lost and you said you like something more meaty to base your opinion on. ^-^)

Uhm... *ruffles hair* I'm always recommending Guy Gavriel Kay to people. I'd recommend against starting with his earliest work (The Fionavar Tapestry) as well as his latest (Ysabel) purely because... well, the first trilogy is quite unlike everything else he's written since and the last is loosely related to the first. Start with Tigana or The Lions of Al-Rassan if you decide to pick up Kay. They're both good stories, both pretty chunky and either will be a good display of his skills. *thinks more*

Sorry, I'm out of general ideas at the moment. Hopefully this can jump start a search, though. If you can tell me a bit more of what you're looking for (and what you aren't), I might be able to come up with a few more titles or authors.

posted by Shanra at 1:01 am (EST) on Jul 11, 2009

It does make sense, but I'm not sure I wholly agree. I don't think a 'short' book tells you any less about an author than a 'long' book does by default. If the length isn't representative of the other books - maybe. But you'll still be able to judge whether the style suits you and whether the story is well-told. I'd rather have a story of 250 pages that I consider well-told than one twice that length with loads of filler material to beef up the page-count.

Don't worry about my judging all of de Lint's works based on one book, though. ^-^ He'll have to be a writer I really, really don't get along with for me to even consider giving him only one chance and I don't think that'll be the case.

posted by Shanra at 6:00 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

So, you're recommending I don't start with Little (Grrl) Lost because it's too recent? (Sorry. I'm having a moment of dim here. ^-^; ) Thanks for the link too! I'll remember Moonheart's probably the best place to start. ^-^

posted by Shanra at 2:09 am (EST) on Jun 26, 2009

Hello! Nice to meet you. ^-^

I'm 'halfway through' Bear's Promethean Age series now. I've picked up both Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth somewhere in... March, I think, and liked both. ^-^ It'll probably be a while before I get to the others in the series, though I do plan to.

I still haven't got around to any of the de Lint books I have on my TBR pile either. Would you recommend Moonheart or Little (Grrl) Lost as a better book to start with? (I probably misspelled the second title, but it should be close enough. I hope you've read that one too and just haven't got around to adding it yet as we don't seem to share it!)

posted by Shanra at 5:50 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2009