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To everyone who never told me of the existence of Pamela Dean's Tam Lin:
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? Why did nobody sit me down and say, here is a book, it is perfect for you, read it now? It is:
a) extremely American in a way that's making me half bemused and half wistful, and
b) making me feel drastically under-read! and under-educated! I am not used to these feelings!
~
Anyway, flist, let's talk books! What are you reading? What have you enjoyed recently? WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU AMERICANS BEEN HIDING FROM ME?
WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? Why did nobody sit me down and say, here is a book, it is perfect for you, read it now? It is:
a) extremely American in a way that's making me half bemused and half wistful, and
b) making me feel drastically under-read! and under-educated! I am not used to these feelings!
~
Anyway, flist, let's talk books! What are you reading? What have you enjoyed recently? WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU AMERICANS BEEN HIDING FROM ME?
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Dark Road to Darjeeling is the fourth in the Lady Julia Grey mystery series - don't read the synopsis if you don't want a spoiler to hit you! The series begins with her husband dying; the first lines of Silent in the Grave are: "To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor."
(Raybourn's stand-alone novel, The Dead Travel Fast, didn't quite work for me, but there were some lines in there that I really loved. She's got a gift for first and last lines, especially in that book.)
Jane is a modern retelling of Jane Eyre (Rochester is a rock star!), which has me intrigued. It's got a gorgeous cover and it's been getting some glowing reviews from various book blogs.
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