what a lovely review...i'm reading the privilege of the sword even as we speak (well, not really, because i am screwing around with LJ when i should be working) and i have to complain because i was late coming back to work from lunch because i didn't want to stop...(run on sentences and ellipses are a curse)
You saw that! Gosh. I'm still that happy about it, too.
(I was at your reading & signing in Seattle -- I was going to say, I was the one who thrust an old copy of Swordspoint at you and mumbled something about loving your books, but I expect that's pretty much what everyone did.)
Oh, heavens - it's probably just as well, since if you'd identified yourself I would have fallen on your neck and kissed both cheeks or something equally embarrassing! But I wish you had, anyway. I'm glad I got to sign your book.
Your written response to the new novel was such a gift, not just because every author lives for the illusion that someday they will give someone the best evening they ever had, but because you really crystallized for me part of how the book works: the way the girls' romanticism is used to save them, instead of to punish them. I think you really are the first person to point that out so clearly - though sartoriashas a great bit about the Secret Lives of Girls (http://sartorias.livejournal.com/164692.html). But your analysis really helped clarify it for me. (Hey, I just write the stuff - I don't interpret it! I leave that to smart people - and then I steal their insights to try and sound smart about my work when someone needs a sound byte....)
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:10 am (UTC)(I was at your reading & signing in Seattle -- I was going to say, I was the one who thrust an old copy of Swordspoint at you and mumbled something about loving your books, but I expect that's pretty much what everyone did.)
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Date: 2006-09-08 03:12 am (UTC)Your written response to the new novel was such a gift, not just because every author lives for the illusion that someday they will give someone the best evening they ever had, but because you really crystallized for me part of how the book works: the way the girls' romanticism is used to save them, instead of to punish them. I think you really are the first person to point that out so clearly - though