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[oyceter]

Yay!! The boy bought me the Lymond Chronicles, and they are sitting on my shelf, and they are beautiful and new and lovely with no creases. I, er, flipped to the "Languish locked in L!" scene in Ringed Castle while I was shelving, and read on with a huge grin on my face.

They're mine now!! *cackles* Hee, the library can have its copies back now (I was hanging on to them and doing the "good parts" reread).

I've also started Pamela Dean's Secret Country trilogy, and why why why why didn't anyone ever give this to me when I was a kid?! Maybe it's for the best, because if I had read them as a kid, I would have been sorely disappointed about my own secret games never coming to life. Very glad I splurged and bought them yesterday.

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[oracne.livejournal.com]

Now you can read the Lymond Chronicles AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN...

I thought The Secret Country began slowly, but it picked up fast once Fence showed up.

[minnow1212.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I had a similar experience--possibly because it took me a while to be able to tell the characters apart. They just sort of all started coming out of the mist and being distinct and by the end I could remember who was who in the beginning. Very odd experience--it wasn't a bad thing, just interesting.

Secret Country

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

I wondered the same thing when I first read The Secret Country. I suspect it's because it came out at the time I was avoiding anything that used the "kids go into another world" idea, having a) gotten thoroughly sick of it and b) gotten bitter because *I* never got to go.

Re: Secret Country

[oyceter]

Alas, the trials of growing up in Taiwan with a limited access to books!! But, oh, I would have loved to read this while I was reading CS Lewis and E. Nesbit.

[oyceter]

It's evil! It's my new crack!

Secret Country slowed down a bit while the cousins were discussing the rules of the world, but Fence has showed up and the plot looks like it's moving again.

[oyceter]

Books are the best present ever ^_^. With the possible exception of bookstore gift certificates.

[oyceter]

I've been ok with Patrick and Laura and Ted, but I've been having a really hard time keeping Ruth and Ellen straight.