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The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman
3.0
If I were writing my dissertation again, I might look at a broader perspective of Revisioning the American West, and include this one as a science fiction perspective. Eerily similar to westward expansion in America, yet at the same time, completely different. I like the book, and would love to know more about the world, but it definitely challenges perceptions of the self and the other...
Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint
This book has stuck with me the most. I haven't read a de Lint that I don't like, but this one just haunts me. It's definitely due for a re-read.
The Warded Man by Peter V. Brett
this book starts out intense and doesn't stop....in a good way! while much of the plotting seems to be fairly predictable, that doesn't detract from the engaging storytelling
I'm also curious about how much Brett was influenced by Garth Nix's _Sabriel_ with wards/glyphs/demons
I'm also curious about how much Brett was influenced by Garth Nix's _Sabriel_ with wards/glyphs/demons
You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness by Julie Klam
3.0
I'd like to give this 3.5. It's engaging, funny, heartbreaking, and educational. Anyone involved with rescue, or thinking about getting into rescue should probably read it.
But gosh darn it all, I may just hurl the next book I about "a New Yorker who gets a dog and does all the wrong things but who learns and gets better next time" out the window. Can't you people do some research about basic training and obedience? I started training dogs in junior high through 4-H, so maybe I'm a little more sensitive than many, but training is such a basic need that I don't know why people don't automatically do it. We send 3 year olds to pre-school--would one basic training class with your new puppy kill you?
There, rant over. Really, after beating my head against the wall at the beginning, I started thoroughly enjoying the book. Julie explains rescue here, from the hours-long transports to the foster who is too crazy to the owner who shouldn't have a pet rock, let alone a living creature. Rescue is hard, and it always helps to have that publicly acknowledged by someone who can say it more eloquently than I can.
But gosh darn it all, I may just hurl the next book I about "a New Yorker who gets a dog and does all the wrong things but who learns and gets better next time" out the window. Can't you people do some research about basic training and obedience? I started training dogs in junior high through 4-H, so maybe I'm a little more sensitive than many, but training is such a basic need that I don't know why people don't automatically do it. We send 3 year olds to pre-school--would one basic training class with your new puppy kill you?
There, rant over. Really, after beating my head against the wall at the beginning, I started thoroughly enjoying the book. Julie explains rescue here, from the hours-long transports to the foster who is too crazy to the owner who shouldn't have a pet rock, let alone a living creature. Rescue is hard, and it always helps to have that publicly acknowledged by someone who can say it more eloquently than I can.
Briarpatch by Tim Pratt
5.0
If you like Charles Delint, you'll like Briarpatch. Pratt takes his readers into other worlds along with his characters. Darrin sees his ex-girlfriend jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, and sets out to discover why. In the process, he learns more about himself and not only the world most people inhabit, but also the various other "plausible" worlds that exist in, next to, and near our own.