While She Knits

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I am in a Reading Slump.  I just requested Chime by Franny Billingsley from the library, but until I can get my hands on it, what have you been reading that you would recommend?

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[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

I wasn't crazy about Sapphique. Though I'm convinced that I didn't "get" it completely after crowinator and I read it and came away with different ideas about what really happened at the end. I think I rushed through it.

[crowinator.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to reread Sapphique a little slower as well -- I'm not convinced I got it either. It's a trippy one but it's worth it just to find out what happens. Like "freenarnian" mentioned above, I was disappointed there wasn't a third book too, especially right at first. (Sorry, I don't remember how to tag people's LJs here.)

I read a lot of interesting books lately, but I recommend The False Princess by Eilis O'Neal to people here. It's a fantasy novel about a girl who finds out, on her sixteenth birthday, that she's been a stand-in for the real princess of Thorvaldor her whole life because of her parents trying to avoid a prophecy that said the princess could be killed before her sixteenth birthday. It's fairly traditional but has a couple of good bait-n-switches and a sweet romance and best of all, it's a standalone story. For once, not a trilogy.

For the record, I really loved Chime too, though it took me a while to get used to the odd narrative.

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's just sitting there, not compelling me at all.