Re: Anybody out there?-- Book Report

On 7/22/15 12:54 PM, 'Ellen Rawson' via Tamson House wrote:
> Have to recommend an incredible fantasy book, though: Naomi Novik's
> Uprooted. Loved it, loved it, loved it.

Thank you! It's really worth recommending! I don't have it fully
integrated yet, and it's certainly "different", but of course, that's
partly the point. It's the first of hers that I've read, and I'm going
to get another from the list in the back of the Kindle, but unlike with
many books by writers new to me that simply charm me, I'm not itching to
dive in to another of hers just yet: I need time to catch my breath.
She's absolutely Mythic, and I'm going to pass the recommendation on to
Charles' "Mythic Cafe" on FB. She has a very original imagination, not
just fed by all the other "High Fantasy" genre, but by Polish folk tales
(as opposed to the more Southern European and British folk tales that
are more part of the consciousnesses of most of us), and, I believe, her
own individual originality (along with the fact that she just happens to
be a FINE writer). The book has flaws, for my individuality, among them
entirely too much blood and gore (I thought that it was going to remain
at 93% forever!), that almost, in some of the worst places, caused me to
put the book down forever, but I didn't. And I wound up glad that I
didn't. Entirely uncharacteristic of it, but laudatory to her ability
(maybe she didn't even intend any humor, but my individual quirks
again), it's the first book in years that caused me to literally laugh
out loud in two or three places. I'm not sure that I'll do it again
when I reread (yes, I will be doing that, if I live long enough), having
been through the ugly parts (the laughs came quite early on), but just
once is a landmark for my reading life.




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