Tag: Robin McKinley
Read52 – feminist fiction for children. With giveaway.
One of the books that we won from Templar Books recently was Sword of Light by Katherine Roberts. Small chose it because he’s rather into Arthurian legend. What he didn’t see before he chose it is that it’s a female lead character – and I expected mutiny when he picked it up, as previously he’s…
Thinking about dragons.
It’s St George’s day. My nephew’s birthday. I sent him birthday wishes through Facebook, and thought about his mother. It’s also world book night. Last year I signed up as a giver, and walked the streets trying to give books away. Harder than you’d think. This year I thought about having a small baby and…
some more reading.
Let’s see, there was The Telling, read this last weekend. Possibly wasn’t in the best state of mind for it – I think Ms Le Guin does undercurrents in her work, and instead of picking up any of those, I just found it rather inpenetrable. Shame. I might try it again another time – I…
Reading is all I'm up to
Feels like someone has pulled my brain out of my ears and replaced it by slightly too much cotton wool, which is pressing uncomfortably on my ear drums and making thinking far too difficult. So I have done next to nothing yesterday and today, except a little light reading. I’m on a quest to find…
oh so very tired
I really should be making things tonight, I’ve got PIFs to do (I have a plan 😉 ) and SS to think of and the normal ordinary S creeping up as well, and instead I’m going to do a couple of quick book reviews and go to bed. At the weekend I read Dragonhaven and…
The Bells of Mazahan – Robin McKinley
Robin McKinley So, speaking of bells, here’s the first page or so of The Bells of Mazahan because it’s much too late to come up with an entry from zero. This is the beginning of the draft after I realised it wasn’t going to stay a short story, but you’ll notice its antecedents as an…
