The Tough Guide to Fantasyland – Diana Wynne Jones

I saw this used, and snagged it because I like the author. It’s a fun enough book – presented as a dictionary of all the tropes you’d run into in a fantasy story. It was published in 1996, so it’s fun to think about how much things actually have changed in fantasy-book land since that date.

I’m not sure this would get published today – this is the kind of thing that reads like one extended meme. I’d expect to see this as short form commentary online these days.