Keep mending broken lines

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I can't believe it took me until now to recognize that Avatar: The Last Airbender reminds me intensely of the fiction of Laurence Yep, which is only a good thing. (If they had to make a film version, couldn't he have written the script instead of Shyamalan? Seriously. Dragonwings vs. The Happening, game-set-match in a picosecond.) Also, I do not know why my copy of The Rainbow People is on a shelf in the music room while Tongues of Jade must still be in a box, because I can't find it anywhere; the same with his Dragon quartet, which otherwise I would lend to rushthatspeaks. I want my bookspace back.

In other news, I am bored with this cold.

P.S. nineweaving has a website! Check it out! I'm going to bed.

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Her website looks gorgeous.

I only ever read one book by Lawrence Yep, but I loved it, and it has lingered in my memory: Sweetwater.

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Her website looks gorgeous.

Go over and tell her!

I only ever read one book by Lawrence Yep, but I loved it, and it has lingered in my memory: Sweetwater.

I have not read that one. Tell me about it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Planet with a half-drowned city, because the human colonists originally didn't take account of the two moons and built their settlement too close to the sea--and then the ocean rose, from the pull of the moons.

The main character, whose name I think is Tyree (I'm doing this without resorting to Amazon...) and his family are among those who live in the half-drowned city. They're the objects of tourist curiosity for their lifestyle. They fish and salvage.

He befriends (or is befriended by) one of the native dwellers of the planet, who teaches him music.

He also has a blind sister. The father finds a strange cube which, whatever facet you touch, it gives you a different sensation under your fingers, and he gives it to the sister.

A developer wants to .... do something. Tear down the old city and settle the people on land, I think, and he also wants the cube. His name is Satin, which at the time I read it, I thought was Satan.

There are great descriptions of fishing, and there is a sea dragon.

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There are great descriptions of fishing, and there is a sea dragon.

. . . yeah. I should read this.