Media Roll Call
Nov. 22nd, 2012 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mindsplinters45) Spinners by Donna Jo Napoli - A really great YA take on Rumplestiltskin that I'm glad I picked up for a song at GoodWill. I've never read a full length story on this basis; it seems that most writers want to play with Snow White or Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty or Beauty And The Beast, etc. I really liked the way this book was set up as two halves of a whole - mirror halves that were linked by circumstance and history and skill. There was surprising depth to the characters and so much heartbreak. I also totally approved of how she played with the naming magic.
46) Red as Blood by Tanith Lee - A collection of short stories, some better than others. I had already read one or two of them in other anthologies but they still held up to a re-reading. Tanith Lee can be very, very good. Very imaginative, very primal. Sometimes, though, she gets to be too fond of her own words and the story suffers for the macabre or esoteric flourishes.
47) Enigma by Carla Cassidy - Cheap romance novel picked up to see what Harlequin expects in the realm of sci-fi. It was enjoyable enough but the heroine ended up doing one of the typically hair-brained things they so often do in these books. At least she was likeable, though. I also had some quibbles with the continuity. Still... Fun and easy and you can put your brain in neutral. Mutant telepathic twins, evil doctors, sex, etc. Good times.
Also, for the record, NaNo is kicking my f'ing butt. Sigh.
46) Red as Blood by Tanith Lee - A collection of short stories, some better than others. I had already read one or two of them in other anthologies but they still held up to a re-reading. Tanith Lee can be very, very good. Very imaginative, very primal. Sometimes, though, she gets to be too fond of her own words and the story suffers for the macabre or esoteric flourishes.
47) Enigma by Carla Cassidy - Cheap romance novel picked up to see what Harlequin expects in the realm of sci-fi. It was enjoyable enough but the heroine ended up doing one of the typically hair-brained things they so often do in these books. At least she was likeable, though. I also had some quibbles with the continuity. Still... Fun and easy and you can put your brain in neutral. Mutant telepathic twins, evil doctors, sex, etc. Good times.
Also, for the record, NaNo is kicking my f'ing butt. Sigh.
