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I greatly dislike first posts, in the same way and for the same reason I dislike writing biographical paragraphs of myself. I mean, what is there to say?
I'm going to pretend this isn't a first post, therefore, and instead start right in with What I'm Reading: Sorcery and Cecelia, by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. It's a reread -- in fact, my copy, which is in dire need of replacing, has a badly broken spine and tattered corners because I was only able to find it used (this was before the reprint), and subsequent re-reads have only worsened its condition. I'm usually gentle with books, but this one was coming so close to bits that even opening it made things worse. (And it took me three bookstore trawls to come across this copy!)
At any rate, I've read Sorcery and Cecelia several times; it's a comfort read, which is why I happened to pick it up this time: I was on the way to the dentist and needed something to brighten my waiting room time.
When I first read S&C, I was fourteen or fifteen, I think. The fellow fantasy readers at my high school were all heavily into Tolkien imitators, which was also more or less all our tiny public library stocked, and in fact S&C was the first example of non-medievaloid fantasy I have a clear memory of reading. (That doesn't mean that it was the first I'd ever read, mind, but the others must not have stuck out in memory.) In a way, it was my gateway to non-medieval fantasy, and while I wasn't aware at the time of other Regency and Regency-esque fantasy, it was my gateway into the world of Emma Bull's War for the Oaks, the Bordertown books, and Kara Dalkey's Little Sister. Among others.
I had ought to pick up The Grand Tour, one of these days.
I'm going to pretend this isn't a first post, therefore, and instead start right in with What I'm Reading: Sorcery and Cecelia, by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. It's a reread -- in fact, my copy, which is in dire need of replacing, has a badly broken spine and tattered corners because I was only able to find it used (this was before the reprint), and subsequent re-reads have only worsened its condition. I'm usually gentle with books, but this one was coming so close to bits that even opening it made things worse. (And it took me three bookstore trawls to come across this copy!)
At any rate, I've read Sorcery and Cecelia several times; it's a comfort read, which is why I happened to pick it up this time: I was on the way to the dentist and needed something to brighten my waiting room time.
When I first read S&C, I was fourteen or fifteen, I think. The fellow fantasy readers at my high school were all heavily into Tolkien imitators, which was also more or less all our tiny public library stocked, and in fact S&C was the first example of non-medievaloid fantasy I have a clear memory of reading. (That doesn't mean that it was the first I'd ever read, mind, but the others must not have stuck out in memory.) In a way, it was my gateway to non-medieval fantasy, and while I wasn't aware at the time of other Regency and Regency-esque fantasy, it was my gateway into the world of Emma Bull's War for the Oaks, the Bordertown books, and Kara Dalkey's Little Sister. Among others.
I had ought to pick up The Grand Tour, one of these days.