-=>While in the White Hart, Helen Fleischer explained to Fred Runk that<=-
 HF> Well, come the wee hours when I'm tucked up in my hotel room ready to
 HF> read myself to sleep, I had the awful realization that I grabbed
 HF> Pamela Dean's _The Hidden Land_ off my shelf.  I had accidentally
 HF> stacked it on top of _The Secret Country_, even though it is the sequel
 HF> to that book and I have not yet read the first one. AAARRRGH!
I just started reading her.  I finished THE DUBIOUS HILLS several months
ago. TAM-LIN is sitting there patiently, awaiting my call.  I haven't
started the series yet--can't find the first one anywhere.  I did like THE
DUBIOUS HILLS; I don't care for fantasy that much because of the cardboard
characters and the overworked Arthurian atmosphere, but this one was
definitely different.
 HF> One dealer wouldn't even try, another pointed me to a vintage Poul
 HF> Anderson and raved about it.  All I can say is I'm glad it only cost
 HF> $1.25 and I did need to get to sleep quickly that night.  I struggled
 HF> through page after page of made-up words that added nothing to the
 HF> story and a lot of description that flowed like firetrucks over
 HF> speedbumps, only to get to a boy-meets-alien-girl scene that really did
 HF> the trick. I was out cold.  Zzzzz.
Don't remember that one.
... While it is still good weather, clean the drainpipes.  Chinese Proverb
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