Of authors and books
Feb. 11th, 2004 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanithryudoBland day today and yesterday. Nothing happening of worth. Actually did lots of work... yay me. Other news... Haven't been too much of a mood to write anything intensive for YvtW 2.0 either. Or write anything for GJ, apparently. Not many of the fanfics I'm tracking have updated... *le sigh* Maybe I'll just go and read old fanfics...
*wracks brain to find something to say*
Um... since reading This Scepter'd Isle at B&N and noticing how many new hardbacks Mercedes Lackey has out lately, I checked her website and the Firebird Arts & Music site to see what else she's got out or has coming out in the near future. So far, The Fairy Grandmother sounds like an interesting read... somewhat of a twist on traditional fairy tales - something ML is well known for. Charmed Destiny is a collection of three stories by three authors, one of whom is ML, and looks interesting as well... something about "a arranged medieval marriage with a unique and well deserved ending for the abusive lord." I love how ML has so many strong female chars and good male chars in her stories.
Coming up in April is the anthology Dragon Quintet, edited by Marvin Kaye. Two of the five authors in it are Mercedes Lackey and Tanith Lee. *grin* How can I possibly not read it when it comes out? (Or at least read those two stories.) I've always loved TL's short stories (as opposed to her series works, which tends to lose me in her tendency toward overreaching metaphors in conjunction with twisted plotlines).
To celebrate, I'm gonna go and reread The Origin of Snow, from Tanith Lee's site. It's a good example of her typical writing style when it comes to fantasy... though my favorite has always been her (probably one and only) humor-fantasy short novel. ^_^
*wracks brain to find something to say*
Um... since reading This Scepter'd Isle at B&N and noticing how many new hardbacks Mercedes Lackey has out lately, I checked her website and the Firebird Arts & Music site to see what else she's got out or has coming out in the near future. So far, The Fairy Grandmother sounds like an interesting read... somewhat of a twist on traditional fairy tales - something ML is well known for. Charmed Destiny is a collection of three stories by three authors, one of whom is ML, and looks interesting as well... something about "a arranged medieval marriage with a unique and well deserved ending for the abusive lord." I love how ML has so many strong female chars and good male chars in her stories.
Coming up in April is the anthology Dragon Quintet, edited by Marvin Kaye. Two of the five authors in it are Mercedes Lackey and Tanith Lee. *grin* How can I possibly not read it when it comes out? (Or at least read those two stories.) I've always loved TL's short stories (as opposed to her series works, which tends to lose me in her tendency toward overreaching metaphors in conjunction with twisted plotlines).
To celebrate, I'm gonna go and reread The Origin of Snow, from Tanith Lee's site. It's a good example of her typical writing style when it comes to fantasy... though my favorite has always been her (probably one and only) humor-fantasy short novel. ^_^
