Worst. Foreshortening. Ever.

[la_onza]

I've been very depressed lately, and so I've been reading more escapist fiction, but also more inclined to be cranky and fault-finding. Hence this post. I just finished Shadowsinger, the fifth and final book in L.E. Modesitt's "Spellsong Cycle," and I've enjoyed this series, every book of which is all about women using magic to unleash UNGODLY

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[magnetic_pole]

*smile* That's really unfortunate. Perhaps the job didn't pay enough for the artist to go back and start over when she/he realized just how badly things were going. *snort*

I'm reading this series about a boy wizard called "Harry Potter," have you heard of it? It's pretty good. I wish it had a radical separatist army of women soldiers, though. M.

[la_onza]

It's stuff like this that makes me glad that Scholastic went with the stylized GrandPre drawings, goofy as they sometimes are. :)

[la_onza]

You know, I wouldn't mock the art of someone who drew just for fun, but he gets paid for this. It boggles the mind a little.

[la_onza]

What's the Joan Aiken book with the wishing stone that fits around your little finger? I tried so hard to find a stone like that.

My library has several Mahy titles, though not The Changeover, unfortunately.

[mindabbles]

hmmm, your description kind of makes me want to read this. Not the cover, mind you. I'm also wondering why the heroine seems to have 70's sideburns.

For brainless reading: the series of mysteries by Rita Mae Brown and her cat - can't get much more brainless than written by a cat. Also, 'The Commitment' by Dan Savage is fun. I recently read 'Drag King Dreams' by Leslie Feinberg - not exactly escapist, but suck-you-in good characters to whom you hate to say good-bye.

Sorry you're feeling blue.

[la_onza]

They're actually pretty entertaining, if you can get past the inelegant prose. I think the first one, The Soprano Sorceress, was the most fun, but perhaps that's just because the concept was fresh when I read it.

Light mysteries are great sometimes - When I'm in the mood, I read some of my mother's - Janet Evanovich, Joan Hess, etc. But I haven't seen the cat ones. :D

Dan Savage as in Savage Love?

[mindabbles]

yes, as in Savage Love. He wrote a couple of autobiographical books. 'The Commitment' is about his and his partner's decision about how and if to take some steps to formalize their commitment (um, other than living together for years and adopting a child). It is essentially a love story told with his wit and political perspective present on every page.

[kitestringer]

Bwahahahahahahaha! That's the kind of cover art that makes me wonder how the meeting that led to choosing it must have gone. o.O

I'm sorry you've been depressed lately. Beyond the obvious rec that might be expected from me (*coughHornblowercough*), I'd really recommend the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik, if you haven't read it already. It's really effective as escapist fiction, I think, although it will probably also make you reallyreallyreally want a dragon, which...can only lead to disappointment.

Actually, I guess what I mean is...

[kitestringer]

That's the kind of cover art that makes me wonder how the meeting that led to choosing it must have gone. o.O

More like "I wonder how the meeting must have gone when they realized this was what they had to use as the cover art." You know, since it obviously must have been a commission specifically for this book. The "o.O" still stands. *g*

[la_onza]

Well, thanks to you, I've paused over the Hornblower books in the library, and will someday doubtless pick one up.