Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper. Book 1, and there’s a reason the sequence is named after Book 2 instead. Yet another piece of Utterly Classic British Children’s Literature, this time...
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The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper. Book 4. Very Welsh, and feels right to me. Given that I spent a lot of my A-level science lessons looking out of the window at Cader Idris, if I’m happy...
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The Dark is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper. Book 5. In many ways, this is a wonderful book. But in a lot of others, it makes me really angry. Written in 1977 (when mass immigration from the...
View ArticleElizabeth Bear – Blood and Iron/Whiskey and Water
This is a re-read – I didn’t like these very much the first time around, but it would have been unfair for me to dismiss them on one reading. So now I’m going to dismiss them, rather more...
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