I've read Four British Fantasists by Charles Butler which is an excellent work of criticism on Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper and Diana Wynne Jones, if you're interested in those authors. Butler clearly enjoys all their work but isn't afraid to tackle some of the problematic issues in them (e.g. colonialism) and acknowledging others issues that there isn't room in the book to tackle.
I never really understood in Falconer's Lure why it mattered so much to Rowan that Ginty took part in the Festival events as well.
I do like Bujold's books very much, and I find Miles engaging, but to read the books I like the most in the series (Memory, Komarr and A Civil Campaign) you do need to have read some of the others. The person who introduced me to the them started with Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance.
I would like to read Mrs Pooter's Diary - I'll keep a lookout for it secondhand. (Yay for bargains and I am glad you showed that man!) The Julian Barnes sounds good too - I've read a couple of his books but not that one.
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Date: 2010-07-03 09:38 am (UTC)I never really understood in Falconer's Lure why it mattered so much to Rowan that Ginty took part in the Festival events as well.
I do like Bujold's books very much, and I find Miles engaging, but to read the books I like the most in the series (Memory, Komarr and A Civil Campaign) you do need to have read some of the others. The person who introduced me to the them started with Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance.
I would like to read Mrs Pooter's Diary - I'll keep a lookout for it secondhand. (Yay for bargains and I am glad you showed that man!) The Julian Barnes sounds good too - I've read a couple of his books but not that one.