Current:
Dragon's of Light by Orson Scott Card (ed): A dragon's dozen of stories. Thirteen authors and thirteen illustrators join to bring readers dragons in all their bright and terrible variety. Among the stories: "The Ice Dragon" by George R. R. Martin (illustrated by Alicia Austin) in which a child whose body is never warm finds an ally in a dragon made of ice; "One Winter in Eden" by Michael Bishop (illustrated by Val & John Lakey) in which a dragon lies coiled inside a teacher's heart; "Cockfight" by Jane Yolen (illustrated by Terri Windling) in which a boy steals a dragon and trains it for the cockfights; and "The George Business" by Roger Zelazny (illustrated by Geofry Darrow) in which a knight goes into business with an enterprising dragon.
Read Since the Last WWW: Wednesday (click on titles for review):
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
The Word for Everything by Roger Mitchell
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
The Pianist in the Dark by Michéle Halberstadt
Up Next:
Corpus Christmas by Margaret Maron
More Holmes for the Holidays by various (Greenburg, Lellenberg & Waugh, eds)
Lucky Jim by Kinglsey Amis
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
English Music by Peter Ackroyd
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
(all for challenges)
The pianist in the Dark sounds interesting. Happy reading.
ReplyDeleteI really want to read Dorothy L Sayers. I've heard so many great things about her books.
ReplyDeleteI really must read Club Dumas!
ReplyDeleteHere’s my WWW Wednesdays post. :)