Books, the utterly superb edition

[hawkwing_lb]

Books 2008: 142-143

142. Elizabeth Bear, All the Windwracked Stars.

The list of books that have made me weep is a very short one. The list of books that have made me heave great damned sobs is even shorter.

This book is on it. Oh, god, is this book on it. It is beautiful, and terrible, and painfully full of wonder, and I am impressed and in awe.

It seems that matociquala keeps writing books that hit me where I live. Damnit.

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non-fiction:

143. Tacitus, Agricola and Germanies.

One ancient biography, that of Tacitus's father-in-law, a governor of Britain during the reign of Domitian; and one ancient ethnographical inquiry, quite unusual. Interesting for the useful sources that they are, and also slightly weird for a modern reader.

Comments

[clarentine]

FWIW, she did the same thing to me with Carnival. I have AtWS but have not yet read it (in this version; I read some of it on the OWW in an earlier incarnation, which means I get the fun of learning by seeing what she changed!). Probably will be my Xmas reading...and, come to think of it, that's where and when I cried over Carnival. Huh.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I consider it completely unfair that there are books in the world that good. Excellent, but unfair: I will never be that good, not if I work my whole life long. :P

[clarentine]

I consider it a godsend! *g*

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)