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[fahye]

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!

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Anyway, flist, let's talk books! What are you reading? What have you enjoyed recently? WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU AMERICANS BEEN HIDING FROM ME?

Comments

[fahye.livejournal.com]

In what way? Normally I try to avoid extremely depressing books for everyday reading, but my Booker project has introduced me to a few that have been excellent.

[themis.livejournal.com]

I will admit to loving a lot of extremely depressing books (As Meat Loves Salt), but several of the short stories are simply bleak, and a couple of them involve animal cruelty (although I wouldn't characterize it as abuse). I'm not Peter Singer, I eat meat, but cruelty for the sake of cruelty bothers me greatly when it's directed at non-human animals.