reading and other escapes
Jun. 10th, 2020 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeI finished a review of A Sinister Quartet just 45 minutes late of being able to post it on the day the book launched, which was yesterday. The review is on Goodreads; people reading here have heard my reactions to the first two stories in any case.
Those two--"The Twice-Drowned Saint" (CSE Cooney) and "An Unkindness" (Jessica Wick)--were right up my alley thematically and writing-wise. The remaining two, "Viridian" (Amanda McGee) and "The Comforter" (Mike Allen) were both excellent tales, slightly (or in the case of Mike's, very) outside the circle of what I normally enjoy reading, but both did what they set out to do with finesse. I think anyone who's drawn to any of the four stories will enjoy some of the others a whole lot as well, and possibly all of the others.
Next I'll reread Aster Glenn Gray's The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball so I can do it justice in a review. I'm also going to read The Headless Cupid, a Zilpha Keatley Snyder story I somehow failed to read as a child. I absolutely adored her Green-sky trilogy and The Changeling, and I enjoyed many other of her stories as well.
I also drew another chalk thing. "Be the frog-riding, moth-and-dandelion-wielding hero you want to see in the world"
Those two--"The Twice-Drowned Saint" (CSE Cooney) and "An Unkindness" (Jessica Wick)--were right up my alley thematically and writing-wise. The remaining two, "Viridian" (Amanda McGee) and "The Comforter" (Mike Allen) were both excellent tales, slightly (or in the case of Mike's, very) outside the circle of what I normally enjoy reading, but both did what they set out to do with finesse. I think anyone who's drawn to any of the four stories will enjoy some of the others a whole lot as well, and possibly all of the others.
Next I'll reread Aster Glenn Gray's The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball so I can do it justice in a review. I'm also going to read The Headless Cupid, a Zilpha Keatley Snyder story I somehow failed to read as a child. I absolutely adored her Green-sky trilogy and The Changeling, and I enjoyed many other of her stories as well.
I also drew another chalk thing. "Be the frog-riding, moth-and-dandelion-wielding hero you want to see in the world"
