Interim reading suggestions

[Elizabeth Doherty]

No: HPFGUIDX 3340

Joywitch,

I will, naturally, be kicking myself seconds after I send this message because
I will have thought of roughly another two dozen suggestions for you, all of
which will of course be better than the ones I have here.  Off the cuff,
though, here are a few:

Anything by:
Sheri S. Tepper (but I suggest starting with The Family Tree, Grass, or
Gibbon's Decline and Fall), Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint, or Guy Gavriel Kay.

-Wyrms or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
-The Thief of Always or Imajica by Clive Barker (although ToA is more of a
young adult book on the face of it)
-Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's modern fairy tale anthologies
-Any of Jack Zipes' fairy tale collections
-The Armless Maiden, edited by Terri Windling (thematic collection of modern
fairy tales dealing with child abuse...sometimes tough going but well worth
it)
-Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (I wasn't impressed with the last two,
but the ones before that were fantastic)
-Barbara Hambly's Sun Wolf books (starts with The Ladies of Mandrigyn)
-Deerskin by Robin McKinley...I'd actually recommend more by her, but most of
it is more young adult
-Tam Lin by Pamela Dean (it's got a number of holes in it, but it's worth
reading just for the fact that it's such a celebration of literature and it's
fun to pick out the allusions...What do they teach them at these schools?)
-The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt

Wow...I actually came up with more than I thought I would...Not bad since
fantasy & sci fi haven't been my primary reading genre for a while.  (Don't
get me wrong...I still read a lot of f/sf books...I'm just more into Jane
Austen/George Eliot/Julian Barnes/Michael Dorris now...And I strongly
recommend to anyone and everyone that the next book you read should be A.S.
Byatt's Possession.)

Sigh...I really should get back to correcting my sophomores' Macbeth papers,
which reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask.  Does it seem to
anyone else that there is a disproportionate number of teachers on the list? 
Or is it just that we teachers more often mention our occupation?

Take care, all
Elizabeth

"If your god hates the same people you do, it is a sure sign you have created
god in your own image."
--Attribution Unknown, please help

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