It's what the heck have you been reading Wednesday again

[wild_patience]

(And the answer is, a lot of things, not enough, and not quickly enough.)

I've about come to the conclusion that the "in" fairy tale for 2012 was the 12 Dancing Princesses. I have read (still reading one) a couple of YA's based on this. I rather enjoyed Merrie Haskell's The Princess Curse, which had a bit more complexity to it. I'm reading

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[sartorias]

I'm looking forward to Jim's next Libriomancer book.

[mneme]

What did you think of Lin's "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon?" That one was also composed of lots of little stories, but I really liked it.

I haven't read any other Hines novels, but yeah, Libriomancer is really impressive!

I'm told I abuse "actually". Having looked over, say, http://www.labcats.org/mneme/a+e/random_166.html, though...I don't agree. With one (ok, maybe 3) exception, every use I made of the word was correct and meaningful--using it to signal surprise (and disagreement) or facts as opposed to theory (some of these are contextual since I'm responding to other people). Still, something to police.

[bibliofile]

One of the things I liked best about Marr's Graveminder was how it dealt with death and loss. So few books do that at all well, and Marr did a decent job of it.

One of my book groups plans to discuss Libriomancer later this year, and we're all looking forward to reading it.