astonishing row of scholars
Jan. 5th, 2005 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouAstonishing Animals : Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit, by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Ever so pretty, and the odd device of making one of the animals one they've only imagined actually works. This book is as full of wonder as a medieval or ancient Greek bestiary.
(2/200)
Liavek: Wizards' Row, edited by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
I think Liavek is my favorite shared world. Which, since I'm not that fond of shared worlds, is rather insufficent praise. The stories are a tumult of very different lovely things, set in a city which manages to encompass all of them without it seeming a stretch. Funny and sparkly and sad and cruel and compassionate, sometimes more than one of such in the same story.
(3/200)
A Scholar of Magics, by Caroline Stevermer
If you like your fantasy mannerly, pert, sly, and Edwardian, you should really enjoy this book. The balance of wit and earnest longing in Stevermer's books (at least the two I've read so far) is entirely to my taste.
(4/200)
Ever so pretty, and the odd device of making one of the animals one they've only imagined actually works. This book is as full of wonder as a medieval or ancient Greek bestiary.
(2/200)
Liavek: Wizards' Row, edited by Will Shetterly and Emma Bull
I think Liavek is my favorite shared world. Which, since I'm not that fond of shared worlds, is rather insufficent praise. The stories are a tumult of very different lovely things, set in a city which manages to encompass all of them without it seeming a stretch. Funny and sparkly and sad and cruel and compassionate, sometimes more than one of such in the same story.
(3/200)
A Scholar of Magics, by Caroline Stevermer
If you like your fantasy mannerly, pert, sly, and Edwardian, you should really enjoy this book. The balance of wit and earnest longing in Stevermer's books (at least the two I've read so far) is entirely to my taste.
(4/200)
