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Rediscovery – Marion Zimmer Bradley and Mercedes Lackey

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Between Damia and the Music of Darkover, I was feeling a bit nostalgic, so decided to reread one of the actual Darkover books.    This one is the tale of when Earth finally happened upon the lost colony, and the people of Darkover find out that they did not originate on their world. It’s an […]

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Damia – Anne McCaffrey

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Furthering my reread of the Pegasus/Rowan books, I’ve moved on to Damia, which was actually my first experience with this series, back in the pre-internet days when it was harder to track down books that weren’t in bookstores, and you settled for what you got, even if it was out of sequence… Damia is the

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The Music of Darkover – ed. Elisabeth Waters

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Published in 2013, this was the first new Darkover anthology in a very long time.     The music theme apparently grew out of a submission for the planned anthology (Stars of Darkover – currently sitting in my TBR pile) that was based on a Darkover filk song, but was way too long to include

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Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge IX

Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge – 3/21/15 to 6/21/15

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This year, I read: There was one scholarly book on myths, and two books that were much more fairy tale than fantasy themed (An Earthly Knight and The Perilous Gard).    All in all, a good Spring run.

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Spirits in the Wires – Charles de Lint

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. If you’ve read any of de Lint’s Newford books, you know he’s created an urban fantasy setting that incorporates parts of many world mythos (mythi?    What is the plural for that word?).       If a human mind has conceived it, it exists,

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Shadow Magic – Patricia C. Wrede

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Lady Altheia is kidnapped on the night of her birthday celebration.      While her family frantically searches for her, she wakes up in the forest, and realizes her captors are the Lithmern- ancient enemies of Alkyra.     What’s worse is that they’ve brought

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Dust Girl – Sarah Zettel

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Callie lives with her mother in Kansas.       It’s the 1930s, and nearly everyone else has left their town, due to the choking dust.    But Callie’s mother won’t leave – Callie’s father had promised to come back to them, and Callie’s mother

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An Earthly Knight – Janet McNaughton

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Here’s another great entry in the list of books that are mostly historical fiction, with just a touch of a fairy tale thrown in.    In this case, it’s a combination of the stories “Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight” and “Tam Lin”. Lady Jeanette is the younger daughter of a Norman Lord living in

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Parallel Myths – J. F. Bierlein

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. I started a tradition a few year back to try and read a more scholarly book in one of the Once Upon a Time challenge categories.     Here’s this year’s selection – a collection and comparison of similar mythological themes across world cultures. If

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In a French Kitchen – Susan Herrmann Loomis

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Librarything Early Reviewers book. I very much enjoyed this book for the recipes, but not so much for the chapter content.      Each chapter is arranged around some aspect of French home cooking, with the author using various friends and neighbors as examples.     I think the best way I can characterize those

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