here’s what you need to read

… if you either can’t get hold of Among Others yet, or if you’ve cruised through it at Mori speed and are feeling bereft. Or if your book is at home and you aren’t.

Natalie Luhrs’ excellent interview with Jo Walton.

(Side note: Natalie has been an online friend of mine for probably a decade and a half, ad it’s been exciting to watch her gaining a name as a reviewer for Romantic Times. On Monday I was at a friends’ house, and there was an SF novel on the table with a blurb from RT. I was all, “Cool, Natalie’s on a book!” until I checked and foudn that it had been published in 1999, before her time there. Oh well.)

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.

one disagreement so far

Oops. I found one thing that I think Jo Walton Mori got completely wrong. There is no way Harriet Vane – the woman who spent all of Gaudy Night pondering intellectual honesty, who nearly ruined her life earlier (in society’s eyes) because of it, would have felt like *that* about the end of Silver on the Tree.

I can only take comfort in thinking maybe that’s only Mori, not Jo – but I would have thought Mori would be fierce about HV, so that’s scant comfort – and takes me out of the book a little (she said, right before putting down the laptop and diving back in).

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.