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Into the Green

by Charles De Lint

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Angharad was born into the life of a tinker. She also, through her mother, was born with the magic of the summerborn. To keep from feeling out of place when she was young she chooses to ignore her gifts for a simpler life. The magic that runs through her veins can not be contained and reemerges one night when a couple of travelers stir up the old magics inside of her. She must venture out into the world to keep the green from fading away and being destroyed by an ancient evil.

I kept expecting some something important to happen but it never did. Like the previous poster there were a lot of separate short stories that never really were brought together. I liked it okay but it wont be a favorite. ( )
  JulieQ | Jun 28, 2008 |
Angharad gets mad about life when her husband dies. She seems to feel it's okay for other people to suffer but not her. Then she receives a harp from the kowrie and is sent "to wake the Summerblood where it lay sleeping in folk who never knew they were witches." This idea is pursued through several very loosely related episodes - this is not a novel with a plot, more a series of short stories with the same protagonist. Finally, there is a violent encounter with witch-finders in a dungeon (Barbara Hambly does this sort of thing better) and ... yawn. ( )
  muumi | Sep 9, 2007 |
Excellent. ( )
  arelenriel | Aug 5, 2006 |
Not my favorite de Lint book... by far. ( )
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Heather am I and I restore luck
I am the queen of every hive
Reddening the mountains in midsummer
Stag and stone revere my harping

-Wendelessen,
from "Four Seasons,
and the First Day of the Year"
Dedication
For the Oxford boys & girls
(official and honorary)
for songs, support
and great good cheer

With special thanks to MZB,
who first sent me looking for these stories,
and to Diana for her own.
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Angharad's people met the witches the night they camped by Tiercaern, where the heather-backed Carawyn Hills flow down to the sea.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312856725, Hardcover)

The harp was a gift from Jacky Lanter's fey kin, as was the music Angharad pulled from its strings. She used it in her journeys through the kingdoms of Green Isles, to wake the magic of the Summerblood where it lay sleeping in folk who had never known they had it.

Harping, she knew, was on third of a bard's spells. Harping, and poetry, and the road that led . . .

Into the Green

Charles de Lint takes us once again into lands infused and transformed by magic. Magic that grows in the roots of old oaks and dances by moonlight among standing stones. Magic that sleeps in an old soldier's eyes and glows in the gaze of a phantom stag. Magic that pumps through the heart and the veins of those born to the Summerblood-to be stolen at knife point, burned, destroyed, in danger of fading back into the green and disappearing forever from the world.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400)

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