Maine ones are black
Aug. 29th, 2005 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysI admit it. I have been cherry picking the books on my to read shelf. Usually I try to mix my "must read" A list books with my "this looks OK" B list ones. It is a way to overcome the queue starvation problem which would lead to some books never being read. But since my recent reading drought, I have only been reading A list stuff. I should watch that.
The reason for the above revelation is that I have just finished Mother Aegypt by Kage Baker. Baker is of course right at the top of my A list. This time it is a collection of short stories but not ones of of "The Company". Instead it is a set of rather witty and occasionally dark short stories.
As I was reading them, I kept thinking of Connie Willis. There are so many similarities in the way they construct and tell a tale. Baker has a little less whimsey and a little more darkness but they are in the same neighbourhood. These fantasy stories show it much more than those involving The Company.
I have never found it easy to explain the charms of either Baker or Willis. You just have to read them to see what I mean. Please do.
The reason for the above revelation is that I have just finished Mother Aegypt by Kage Baker. Baker is of course right at the top of my A list. This time it is a collection of short stories but not ones of of "The Company". Instead it is a set of rather witty and occasionally dark short stories.
As I was reading them, I kept thinking of Connie Willis. There are so many similarities in the way they construct and tell a tale. Baker has a little less whimsey and a little more darkness but they are in the same neighbourhood. These fantasy stories show it much more than those involving The Company.
I have never found it easy to explain the charms of either Baker or Willis. You just have to read them to see what I mean. Please do.