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Ravens in the Library
Wednesday, 8 April 2009 15:42Just closed this enchanting collection of short stories put together by friends of SJ Tucker to raise funds to pay her medical bills.
Oh, I love everything about this genre and put aside another very good book when this one arrived. The short story combined with magic and fantasy - some better than others, haunting and lingering, a few predictable and I wish that not everyone wanted to be Neil Gaiman.
But, I read a story by Terri Windling, fell in love with her style and have ordered her book 'the Wood Wife' on half.com. She was the find for me - her writing style fits me, magic and grounded, adult and realistic, but with tendrils of wonder. She is also quite the artist, editor AND she lives in Devon, not far from my mother in law.
Had a bad headache in the early hours and wiped out by the medicine stayed home, woke up, did the essential work and then have listened to the blustery April day and let myself be taken by these tales of what ifs? I do like a good 'what if?"
Oh, I love everything about this genre and put aside another very good book when this one arrived. The short story combined with magic and fantasy - some better than others, haunting and lingering, a few predictable and I wish that not everyone wanted to be Neil Gaiman.
But, I read a story by Terri Windling, fell in love with her style and have ordered her book 'the Wood Wife' on half.com. She was the find for me - her writing style fits me, magic and grounded, adult and realistic, but with tendrils of wonder. She is also quite the artist, editor AND she lives in Devon, not far from my mother in law.
Had a bad headache in the early hours and wiped out by the medicine stayed home, woke up, did the essential work and then have listened to the blustery April day and let myself be taken by these tales of what ifs? I do like a good 'what if?"
