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Inheritance, The: And Other Stories

Fantasy Feast Author(s): Megan Lindholm, Robin Hobb As much as I enjoy Robin Hobb’s books, somehow it’s never occurred to me to check out the stuff written under her other nom de plume, Megan Lindholm (which is actually closer to her real name, Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden). I think I intuitively grasped what Hobb explains in the foreword of her 2011 short-story anthology The Inheritance: they really are two different authors, and there’s no mistaking one for the other. When she comes up with a promising phrase or sentence, she says, she knows immediately which author it’s for. This collection [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:55-07:00August 14th, 2012|Tags: , , , |

Fool’s Errand

A Fool for Love Author: Robin Hobb It seems it is my fate to forever humiliate myself on the bus by carrying around Robin Hobb’s paperback novels, festooned with embarrassingly cheesy cover art. Thankfully, the Tawny Man trilogy (of which Fool’s Errand is the first volume) isn’t as bad as some of the others I’ve had to lug around, but it’s bad enough. Skulking wolf? Check. Stern-looking men in puffy shirts on horseback? Check. Village street with Tudor buildings and cobbled road? Check and check. If these books weren’t so addictive, the shame of holding them in public just wouldn’t [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:46-07:00October 21st, 2011|Tags: , , , , |
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