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And everyone has memories of the night that melted stone
Megan Whalen Turner's The King of Attolia is now available from amazon.com. I have been waiting for this book to come out ever since I glimpsed an ARC on the shelves of Pandemonium last year. If you haven't read the two previous novels, let me say only that The Thief is one of my favorite YA books, one of my favorite reconfigurations of classical myth and history, and its narrator actually gives Odysseus a run for his polytropy.
(And if you look at the author's website and scroll down to the Amazon.com Reader's review of The Queen of Attolia? Yeah. That's mine. The book came out in 2000. I imagine the review was written in the same year; I went through a lightning flirtation, courtship, and disillusion with amazon.com reviewing right around then. I hadn't even known the author had a website until a few years ago—there I was, happily reading through reviews of The Thief and The Queen of Attolia, and suddenly I thought, "Wait a minute. That one looks familiar . . .")
Alas, I cannot afford this new one at the moment: but my copy of Futureshocks did come in after a week's wait, so I'm off to write up lesson plans (in my endless quest to bring as many outside influences into this class as possible, I've decided there must be a way to connect modern and ancient concepts of nostalgia to Edward Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy") so that I can justify the time I'll take being horrified at the future.
Although, you know, I could just stick with being horrified at right now . . .
(And if you look at the author's website and scroll down to the Amazon.com Reader's review of The Queen of Attolia? Yeah. That's mine. The book came out in 2000. I imagine the review was written in the same year; I went through a lightning flirtation, courtship, and disillusion with amazon.com reviewing right around then. I hadn't even known the author had a website until a few years ago—there I was, happily reading through reviews of The Thief and The Queen of Attolia, and suddenly I thought, "Wait a minute. That one looks familiar . . .")
Alas, I cannot afford this new one at the moment: but my copy of Futureshocks did come in after a week's wait, so I'm off to write up lesson plans (in my endless quest to bring as many outside influences into this class as possible, I've decided there must be a way to connect modern and ancient concepts of nostalgia to Edward Arlington Robinson's "Miniver Cheevy") so that I can justify the time I'll take being horrified at the future.
Although, you know, I could just stick with being horrified at right now . . .