![]() I loved how everything in her life relates to the books she reads (predominantly fantasy and science fiction), and how she uses the books to make sense of the world around her, because she really doesn't have anyone else. ![]() I liked the day-to-day descriptions of the routine at the boarding school, and especially the trips that Mor gets to take back home. Mor has so much presence as a narrator that I wasn't long into the book before I felt she was a real person and I was somehow privy to her innermost thoughts. It's presented as a series of journal entries by Mor, a precocious fifteen-year-old Welsh girl who has been sent away to boarding school after her twin sister died. ![]() Now, "novel" might not be the best term for this book. The fairies in Among Others are capricious, manipulative, playful, barely able to communicate, glow as lights as often as take recognizable forms, and they're scarcely there-by which I mean they are very hard to find and see (and they tend to ignore you even when you do find them). Whatever reservations you might have with that statement-and I've never experienced what he has myself, so I've got a bunch-I think Jo Walton's new novel does a tremendous job of describing what it would be like to experience life as Froud does. ![]() Index of Title, Month and Page sorted by AuthorĪ FEW columns ago I was talking about how Brian Froud draws his fairies from life. Fantasy and Science Fiction: Books To Look For by Charles de Lint ![]()
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