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nutmeg3.livejournal.comI feel so strange about doing this ("Look at me! Look at me!") but...
I only just discovered these books, thanks to the urging of the same group of friends who introduced me to George R.R. Martin, Lois McMaster Bujold and Diana Wynne Jones, so how could I not listen? I devoured all three in one giant rush, and now I'm already cranky (in a kind, understanding-of-the-author way) that there's no fourth book already waiting for me. Guess I'll just have to go back and reread.
I'm an editor in real life, so I was very interested in the way MWT used completely different approaches to point of view for each book. I still miss Gen's first-person narration, even though I know it wouldn't have worked for the two later books. It was tricky enough to keep from revealing his true parentage, etc. in The Thief, and I truly was blindsided at the end. (Which doesn't happen very often, so I absolutely love it when it does.) One reason I want to reread is to see what clues I missed the first time through.
I think Queen is my favorite of the books, in large part because I'm a big ol' sappy romantic, and watching Gen and Irene deal so differently - and so perfectly for them - with their feelings and the consequences of those feelings and their actions was such a joy as a reader. I'm still haunted by Irene's recollection of the amphora (?) she broke when she was young and Gen's calm defense of her right to cut off his hand, and the way so much happens between the lines. (I'm reminded of the way the romance develops almost unnoticeably in Sarah, Plain and Tall and is all the more powerful for that.) The perfection of the moment when they speak their love and she believes him...
OK, enough blathering from me, but I do have two questions.
1) Why is this list named after Sounis, who's plus or minus the enemy, and not Attolia or Eddis, if you were going to go with a place/ruler name?
And much more importantly, 2) What is this earring short story for Disney Adventures (whatever that is) and where can I get a copy?
Anyway, I'm really glad to have found this comm. It's definitely going to help with the withdrawal.
I only just discovered these books, thanks to the urging of the same group of friends who introduced me to George R.R. Martin, Lois McMaster Bujold and Diana Wynne Jones, so how could I not listen? I devoured all three in one giant rush, and now I'm already cranky (in a kind, understanding-of-the-author way) that there's no fourth book already waiting for me. Guess I'll just have to go back and reread.
I'm an editor in real life, so I was very interested in the way MWT used completely different approaches to point of view for each book. I still miss Gen's first-person narration, even though I know it wouldn't have worked for the two later books. It was tricky enough to keep from revealing his true parentage, etc. in The Thief, and I truly was blindsided at the end. (Which doesn't happen very often, so I absolutely love it when it does.) One reason I want to reread is to see what clues I missed the first time through.
I think Queen is my favorite of the books, in large part because I'm a big ol' sappy romantic, and watching Gen and Irene deal so differently - and so perfectly for them - with their feelings and the consequences of those feelings and their actions was such a joy as a reader. I'm still haunted by Irene's recollection of the amphora (?) she broke when she was young and Gen's calm defense of her right to cut off his hand, and the way so much happens between the lines. (I'm reminded of the way the romance develops almost unnoticeably in Sarah, Plain and Tall and is all the more powerful for that.) The perfection of the moment when they speak their love and she believes him...
OK, enough blathering from me, but I do have two questions.
1) Why is this list named after Sounis, who's plus or minus the enemy, and not Attolia or Eddis, if you were going to go with a place/ruler name?
And much more importantly, 2) What is this earring short story for Disney Adventures (whatever that is) and where can I get a copy?
Anyway, I'm really glad to have found this comm. It's definitely going to help with the withdrawal.
