Hello, All;

Yes, the great man's done it again; a new Pterry, just in time for 
Christmas!  MONSTROUS REGIMENT (haven't read it yet) appears to be based on 
the "Polly Oliver" legend.  Here's the cover blurb:

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It began as a sudden strange fancy...

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry.  Cutting off her hair and 
wearing trousers was easy.  Learning to fart and belch in public and walk 
like an ape took more time...

And now she's enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother.

But there's a war on.  There's always a war on.  And Polly and her fellow 
recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the 
enemy is hunting them.

All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a 
vampire with a lust for coffee.  Well...  they have the Secret.  And as 
they take the war to the heart of the enemy, they have to use all the 
resources of...  the Monstrous Regiment.

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They use the ellipsis more than I do!  ;-)

     Regards,

              Robert.

CBIP:  THE GOLDEN FOOL  by Robin Hobb
     (saw a cairn of Volume 3, FOOL'S FATE, in a bookshop yesterday)
Just finished:  PENUMBRA  by Eric Brown
     A bit like Jack McDevitt with a broken turbocharger, mixed with a 
     police procedural and some Buddhist mysticism.

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