A Good Fantasy Week

[mneme]

I just finished (in about a day) Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Excellent stuff -- it starts off closer to gringo magical realism, but it's fantasy by the end of it.

I'm next going to read Patricia McKillip's latest -- Od Magic. I don't know anything about it, but suspect I'll love it.

And on top of that, Amazon just shipped In the Coils of the Snake, which I'm pretty sure is the latest Hollow Kingdom book. The Hollow Kingdom is an excellent novel (which won Mythopeoic, and which I reviewed in a spoilery review for Mythprint), and it's sequels are quite good as well; I'm curious to see how this one comes out.

But Od Magic first. And read Anansi Boys -- it's exellent; wonderful and warm and solid (and fwiw, much, well, -nicer- than American Gods).

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[mneme]

It's available -- we picked it up from a local (independant) bookstore yesterday in shrinkwrap.

Shouldn't you know this stuff, given?

[mneme]

But it's Od Magic!

[uilos.livejournal.com]

Apparently I can't type while wearing gloves, on a keyboard with one of those stupid plastic covery-things, trying to hide the fact that LJ is not a work related site...

I am no longer working at a bookstore. Sad in it's own way (bye-bye employee discount) but good to be out of a dead-end job with no benefits.