Power of Three, Wizard's Castle (omnibus of Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air), and Conrad's Fate, all in hardcover, by Diana Wynne Jones. I have not yet read Conrad's Fate, as ostensibly it's a gift for my mother, but The Lives of Christopher Chant was one of the formative novels of my elementary-school life. Along with Howl's Moving Castle, actually. I took them out of the Cambridge Public Library time and time again. They may still be my favorites of hers.
A British paperback edition of Angela Carter's Honeybuzzard that has the most 1960's cover ever. If I can find a digital camera, I'll take a photo and post it, so that you may all marvel at the scariness that is Ghislane's hair. I swear, it's about to eat the model wearing it.
Two folktale collections by Jane Yolen, Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls and Mightier than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys.
A beautiful hardcover of Robin McKinley's Beauty, to replace the paperback that was borrowed—I apply heavy quotation marks around the word—by a dear friend in high school, and which I have never seen again. Of course I got a signature.
Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace, which I bought because I loved The Sparrow and even though I disliked Children of God so intensely that I have never re-read it. It has afforded me much fascinating conversation and speculation in the last day, and I may post about it when I have the energy.
Also copies of Flytrap #4 and Say . . . have you heard this one? although I didn't buy those so much as obtain them as payment. Of particular note, in my mind, are Theodora Goss' "The Belt" and Stephanie Burgis' "The Little Tailor." But my tastes may always change.
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Power of Three, Wizard's Castle (omnibus of Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air), and Conrad's Fate, all in hardcover, by Diana Wynne Jones. I have not yet read Conrad's Fate, as ostensibly it's a gift for my mother, but The Lives of Christopher Chant was one of the formative novels of my elementary-school life. Along with Howl's Moving Castle, actually. I took them out of the Cambridge Public Library time and time again. They may still be my favorites of hers.
A British paperback edition of Angela Carter's Honeybuzzard that has the most 1960's cover ever. If I can find a digital camera, I'll take a photo and post it, so that you may all marvel at the scariness that is Ghislane's hair. I swear, it's about to eat the model wearing it.
Two folktale collections by Jane Yolen, Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls and Mightier than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys.
A beautiful hardcover of Robin McKinley's Beauty, to replace the paperback that was borrowed—I apply heavy quotation marks around the word—by a dear friend in high school, and which I have never seen again. Of course I got a signature.
Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace, which I bought because I loved The Sparrow and even though I disliked Children of God so intensely that I have never re-read it. It has afforded me much fascinating conversation and speculation in the last day, and I may post about it when I have the energy.
Also copies of Flytrap #4 and Say . . . have you heard this one? although I didn't buy those so much as obtain them as payment. Of particular note, in my mind, are Theodora Goss' "The Belt" and Stephanie Burgis' "The Little Tailor." But my tastes may always change.