Book: "A Companion to Wolves" Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette

[hawkwing_lb]

Books 159-160, Fiction 150-151:

150. A Companion to Wolves, Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette.

Wow.

I will say this again: wow.

There is so much in this book I don't know where to begin. matociquala's books - especially her fantasy - always leave me lost for breath and lacking words. truepenny isn't far behind. What they've done together...

It's as sharp and as icy and as brutal as the Norse mythos in which it feels so very firmly rooted. It's a coming of age novel, but not in the usual way. It's a novel about losing innocence and finding something more. It's violent, and bloody, and very, very, compassionately human.

Read this book.

Seriously.

151. Black Sun Rising, C.S. Friedman.

Dense, complex, thinky book that straddles the line between science fiction and fantasy and does it well. It's the first book of a trilogy, and I'm certainly tempted to read the next, though I found Black Sun Rising to be somewhat fatiguing in its density.

But. Maybe I should read some of these other books first? The ones that have been sitting on my shelf for months and months...

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Okay, having watched the first two episodes of the original Mission: Impossible, I may be developing a fondness. Despite the utter, utter ridiculousness of the acting, plot, and setting (Russian prisons do not have giant windows! The Soviet Union might have been sprawlingly corrupt, inefficient, and in certain aspects even evil, but individuals were not all incompetent, evil or stupid!), and certain cultural artefacts that do not please, I fear I am... interested. Perhaps even compelled.

I have the weakness for the caper and the ticking clock.

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It's autumn at last. No wonder I keep wanting to curl up and hibernate.

Comments

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Barney and Rollin are quite cool.

I always figured it was because the spy genre is a cliché, for the most part. So why not cliché bad guys?

(About the only I liked about the tv show Alias were the bad guys. Much less of clichés than I was used to. Well, I did like the music and the explosions too. :))

Lucas' stormtroopers are the more impressive for wearing white. Of course, until the nineties no one in science fiction tv/film ever, ever uses anything remotely like sensible military tactics. But. I digress.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

remotely like sensible military tactics

*dies laughing*

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yes. That.