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Bryce the Book Pusher (and a Publisher’s Weekly announcement about a certain book deal . . . )

So TRC has been devouring the Animorphs series, which I picked up from a certain library that was getting rid of theirs. (Gotta love the donation shelf.) I’ve been really happy to see him with a nose in a book a lot of the time, but I couldn’t help but wish he’d get into something a bit more . . . lofty, shall we say. (This isn’t meant as a jab against Animorphs. I’ve never read the series, so I don’t feel like I can disparage it.) In any case, I brought home Over Sea, Under Stone from my library […]

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So Long, David Eddings

Read about one of my favorite childhood authors, David Eddings, dying last night. Well, maybe not “childhood,” but at least “early teenage years.” His were the first “modern fantasy” books that I read, and I loved them to death. And sure, looking back at them, today’s fantasy readers can sort of dismiss them casually. The Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium, Tamuli–yes, they seem to blend together after a while, and the same plot devices and character types are used, but you know what? That’s where fantasy was back then. Eddings took a look at the field, decided there was a hole there–to

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Book Snob

Am I becoming a book snob? I have now put down three books in the past week (finished two of them, and the third I just couldn’t get into). In the case of the two I finished, one was a train wreck, and the other was just disappointing at the end. (Note to self: Having the entire plot hinge on having the “good guys” withhold information from the protagonist–and then not having a good reason for the good guys to withhold said information . . . kind of lame. That’s now on my Things to Avoid When I’m Writing List.)

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

I finished reading book one of The Chronicles of Narnia to my son last night. (Those of you who believe book one is the Magician’s Nephew are sorely deluded. Not to mention irritating. So don’t try to argue with me about chronological Narnia vs. publication order. Read the books. They’re clearly written to be read in the publication order.) Anyway, I’m very impressed with my son. He’s not even four yet, but he really enjoyed the book. I wondered how much of it he was understanding, but he kept interrupting me to ask questions about what was happening, so he

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