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Rediscovery Review: Possession

Posted in Rediscovery Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)
Roland Michell is a literary scholar who specializes in the work of one Victorian poet, Randolph Ash.  One day, while conducting research, he comes across a draft of a letter, written by Ash to an unknown woman, and for Roland, an obsession is born. 
Part literary romance, part epistolary novel, [...]

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Why fantasy?

Posted in fantasy, writing, tagged , , , , , , on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’m asked sometimes, particularly by professors at the university where I work, why I choose to write in the fantasy/speculative fiction genre.
It’s not an easy question to answer.  I like to read fantasy; I always have, ever since my sister gave me a full set of  The Chronicles of Narnia when I was in fourth [...]

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Rediscovery Review: Solstice Wood

Posted in Rediscovery Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip (2007)
Sylvia Lynn has spent most of her adult life avoiding going home, staying away from the dark, tangled woods that surround her family’s estate. But she feels an obligation to return to Lynn Hall for her grandfather’s funeral. While she’s there, she meets the Fiber Guild, a [...]

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