::: Memory and Dream (de Lint)

[delphipsmith]

*sigh*  His books always leave me conflicted.  I'm at once immensely satisfied (because like all his books it's such a deeply right story) and immensely discontented (because I can't go live in Newford and have these people for my friends).  I am also equal parts inspired (I want to write stories like this!!) and depressed (I can't write stories like this!!).  Perhaps a good way to go into SSIAW?

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[kilter.livejournal.com]

That's funny, I read Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips a few months ago and had the same thought about that book: "Yes, THIS is the book I wish I'd written...dammit, I couldn't have written this if my life depended on it!"

It's not terribly deep, it just made me laugh out loud the whole way through (not unlike Good Omens).

[kilter.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm with you about wanting those friends! I haven't read Memory and Dream, but while reading The Onion Girl, I kept thinking "I want BFF's like that!"