A Fan's Playground

Today's book post has a THEME, because I started rereading Chrestomanci and then couldn't stop. Enjoy!

( The Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynne Jones )

( Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones )

( Mixed Magics, by Diana Wynne Jones )

( Witch Week, by Diana Wynne Jones )

( The Magicians of Caprona, by Diana Wynne Jones )

And then I'm not bothering to reread Conrad's Fate or The Pinhoe Egg because they came out a little too late for them to be part of My Childhood, and so to me they read as noncanonical to the series and I can't quite get into them in the same way.

I AM BACKKKK! Well actually I returned late sunday night but then I was exhausted and also I have work and also catching up on the real life things I wasn't doing while on vacation, so. I am still exhausted but I am at least nominally kind of here! AND I COME WITH LOTS OF BOOKS.

Look, my vacation was CANOE TRIPPING, which when you do it right (which obvs I do) leaves you lots of time to hang out in the beautiful wilderness with a book. So. I read NINE BOOKS while on vacation! Plus I had a couple I didn't post about from before the trip. Plus I read a book yesterday. So. Let's go!

( Wired Love: a Romance of Dots and Dashes, by Ella Cheever Thayer )

( Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril & Romance, by Marthe Jocelyn )

( Monks-Hood, by Ellis Peters )

( Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald )

( The Confession of Brother Haluin, by Ellis Peters )

( The Android's Dream, by John Scalzi )

( The Wisdom of Father Brown, by GK Chesterton )

( Psmith, Journalist, by PG Wodehouse )

( A Matter of Oaths, by Helen S Wright )

( Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L Sayers )

( Strong Poison, by Dorothy L Sayers )

( Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale )

( Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L Sayers )

( Poor Yorick, by Ryan North, William Shakespeare, and YOU )

So, entirely as a result of carmarthen's excellent fics, I ended up reading Rosemary Sutcliff's Frontier Wolf this weekend. And this book? It is AWESOME. I <3 it muchly. So let me talk about it further!

( cut for spoilers )