[HPforGrownups] Re: Interim reading suggestions

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3372

Oh, I forgot. Martha Wells, a relative unknown, is a good friend of mine who's written three superb
fantasy books. I got her first one as a graduation present, and called her to tell her that I'd been
prepared for it to be good, but not for it to be *that* good! Get hers if you can find it. More very
good characterization and true-feeling worlds.

--Amanda

Peg Kerr wrote:

> Elizabeth Doherty wrote:
>
> > 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:
>
> <snip>
>
> > -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)
>
> Terri Windling is one of the foremost fantasy editors in the field--she co-edits the Years Best
> Fantasy and Horror anthology with Ellen Datlow.  Here's Terri's website:
>
> http://www.endicott-studio.com/index.html
>
> Here's her recommended fiction subpage (she has other people help her recommend; Charles DeLint is
> one, I know):
>
> http://www.endicott-studio.com/recmdats.html
>
> Here's the reading list of mythopoeic works compiled on that website:
>
> http://www.endicott-studio.com/bookstor.html
>
> > -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?)
>
> Pamela Dean is a near neighbor and dear friend.  I mentioned the Shakespeare reading group I was
> in on the PoU list; they were hosted at Pamela's house.  It was a conversation I had with her that
> led to the intertwining story structure I used in my last novel; I mention this conversation in
> the author's afterward.
>
> And I absolutely love _Tam Lin_  If you'll remember, I mentioned it a couple of days ago when we
> were mentioning classics majors.  It's a book about the love of reading.  I strongly recommend it
> to people on this list.
>
> Also look at the Mythopoeic winners:
>
> http://www.mythsoc.org/awardwinners.html
>
> > 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?
>
> I was an English teacher for four years while working on my graduate degree.  Then the market fell
> apart for English Ph.D.'s and I decided I didn't want to move out of state to pursue a tenure
> track position, and anyway, I'd rather write a novel than a dissertation.
>
> Peg
>
> >>>
>
> No, that's my sister.  I'm La Belle Dame Sans a Reasonably Cooperative Attitude.
>
>
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