 Lily Fairbairn Asgardian  Dec 29 2020, 7:23pm Views: 193 |
 Too much pumpkin pie, probably, and too much anticipation of the end of 2020. I'm still listening to Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave and am nearing the end. It's an amazing novel that happens to be a fantasy. And a tragedy. And history becoming legend becoming myth.... Our own Aunt Dora Baggins happened to mention Terry Pratchett's The Hogfather as an appropriate seasonal story, and I realized I'd never read it. Boy, have I missed out on some good material---and I say that knowing that anything Pratchett writes is going to be brilliant, funny, and profound all at once. HO. HO. HO.  Yes, this means I've passed over my usual custom of never listening to one book and reading another in the same genre, but both books are fantasy only in the same way an apple and a tomato are both fruit. Each is delicious, but each has its own unique flavor and texture. So what have you been reading as you enjoy all the holidays that occur this time of year and yet at the same time stay safe? Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow.... |
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