IN TRANSIT. As in the library system is sending the books I want in my direction. Calloo-callay!
I'm sorry about the dearth of posts. I have about four half-written, but spring has impinged on my time, and I'm busy being a social butterfly. But I'm planning to write a rant later tonight--watch for it!
Also, I just spotted this in an old post at Jenny's Books, which I think is very useful. I don't know why I didn't recognize it--I've read that post twice--but somehow today it struck me.
"I like books in which principles and values are challenged by a changing
reality in interesting ways and the holders of those values have to
figure out what to do about it. This is a pretty broad scope of things....It’s also why I do not enjoy books about how stifling the status quo is
and the search for meaning within a routine world. Boring! Boring!
Boring! Have some new situation for your characters to confront and then
we can talk."
I'm aggressively not reading her recent review of Days of Blood and Starlight, because I'm only halfway through Daughter of Smoke and Bone. And oh, I so love it!
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