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Aug. 15th, 2010 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaIt is tooooo hot. I'm currently making up a batch of cold-brewed coffee for quick iced coffee purposes, and then I'm going to pour myself into a cool bath for a while.
On the other hand, I'm reading Delia Sherman's Changeling and enjoying it quite a lot. It's YA faerie fiction that focuses on some traditional/folkloric traits of the fae that don't get as much play time in YA faerie fiction (the fondness, sometimes to the point of obsession, for rules—and the way those rules are just plain unfair a lot of the time), and it plugs into a lot of the early-90s urban fantasy traits (back when it was things like War for the Oaks or the de Lint oeuvre) without feeling, well, retro or like a retread. I'll write it up in full later, because I'm not done yet, but right now I'm enjoying it quite a lot.
(I am picky about faerie fiction not because I don't like it but because I love it. I'm not a stickler for "authenticity"—it's fantasy, if you want to make up your own faeries with their own rules, I am very much in favor of that!—but I do love to see stories that play off the less-used folkloric tropes. The faeries in Changeling are morally ambiguous and pretty harsh without coming off like bitchy high schoolers, and that's refreshing.)
On the other hand, I'm reading Delia Sherman's Changeling and enjoying it quite a lot. It's YA faerie fiction that focuses on some traditional/folkloric traits of the fae that don't get as much play time in YA faerie fiction (the fondness, sometimes to the point of obsession, for rules—and the way those rules are just plain unfair a lot of the time), and it plugs into a lot of the early-90s urban fantasy traits (back when it was things like War for the Oaks or the de Lint oeuvre) without feeling, well, retro or like a retread. I'll write it up in full later, because I'm not done yet, but right now I'm enjoying it quite a lot.
(I am picky about faerie fiction not because I don't like it but because I love it. I'm not a stickler for "authenticity"—it's fantasy, if you want to make up your own faeries with their own rules, I am very much in favor of that!—but I do love to see stories that play off the less-used folkloric tropes. The faeries in Changeling are morally ambiguous and pretty harsh without coming off like bitchy high schoolers, and that's refreshing.)
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Date: 2010-08-15 09:40 pm (UTC)This means that there's virtually nothing concerning the Nice People that matches up to my standards; I think the last one I read with real enjoyment was Terry Pratchett's "Lords and Ladies".