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Gen's Shelves
Occasional rambles about books I felt strongly enough to review, when I had free time enough to do it.
Currently reading
The Isle of Glass
The Broken Crown
Deep Atlantic: Life, Death and Exploration in the Abyss
L'élégance du hérisson
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
Tiger, Tiger
Survival
Tomorrow's Magic
Warrior
American Gods
A reread of a book I hadn't read in about ten years. I loved it then, and I loved it now too; definitely my favorite just-prose Neil Gaiman that I've read. It's not without its flaws -- and it's tackling a complex issue laden with lots of historical and cultural baggage, and doing so imperfectly -- but still, there are passages that are purely numinous, and that make me want to write like that someday. And I enjoy Shadow a lot.
