Book recommendation

[mllelaurel]

Catherynne M. Valente's Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden. This book is amazing, people. Read it! I could rave for hours about the way Valente deconstructs fairy tale archetypes, but that would ignore the way this book weaves an intricate web of story, filled with unique characters the reader comes to really care about. I'm not even done reading it, but I'm already impressed enough to rec.

Comments

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, do I adore that book. Unfortunately, I only got about 60 pages into In the Cities of Coin and Spice before the person who lent it to me needed it back. Grr!

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

Sadness! I hope the library delivers me a copy of Cities soon. And I'm seriously considering buying both books.

[shellsong.livejournal.com]

The latest edition of The Green Man Review (http://www.greenmanreview.com/) is all about Catherynne M. Valente. I've never read her before, but I think I will have to start!

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

*nodnods* I'm sorry it took me this long to find her.