MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1288 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Fionavar/names/covers/rereads/Gypsys by Thalionar 2) Re: Sword of Ice by "Derek MacArthur" 3) Re: Sword of Ice by Mark Severson 4) Stuff, random oddments and requests. by RoDeLiRiUm-+AT+-aol.com 5) Valdemar and Need origins........ by "Leslie Weekley" 6) Re: Valdemar and Need origins........ by Kenneth Allen Hyde 7) Re: Sword of Ice by "Joseph W. Simmons" 8) Hulda\re-reading\covers by Molly 9) Covers, sites and other stuff by Ashali9928-+AT+-aol.com 10) Re: Hulda by "LWhitman" 11) Re: Re: Hulda by Ashali9928-+AT+-aol.com 12) Tylendel's repudiation by Ashali9928-+AT+-aol.com 13) Re: Valdemar origins........ by "Oliver S." 14) Re: questions, Sword of Ice, hardcover LHM, and SERRAted Edge by snowshadow-+AT+-juno.com 15) Re: questions, Sword of Ice, hardcover LHM, and SERRAted Edge by "Joseph W. Simmons" 16) Re: Sword of Ice, hardcover LHM, and SERRAted Edge by "Oliver S." 17) Re: Error Condition Re: Friends/Bye by RTeclectic-+AT+-aol.com 18) White Mists/Companions by Sorana Shadowcat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 23:26:50 -0400 From: Thalionar To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Fionavar/names/covers/rereads/Gypsys Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970801032650.0066d444-+AT+-mail.geocities.com> Heyla all! Been a while, I know, (according to my records...hmmm. No records. Oh well.) but p-chem sucks (anyone out there understand how to read "character tables," like, symmetry and stuff?? if so, mail me privately, I wouldn't want to scare anyone). ***ATTENTION, ATTENTION*** To all Fionavar Trilogy Fans (and to anyone who has NEVER read this masterpiece of fantasy): The Fionavar Trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay has been RE-RELEASED! (Yeah! dancing around in circles!) I saw it in Barnes & Noble, but got my Walden's friend to order it for me. I read it about 5 years ago (in hardback, if you can believe it) when my freind forced it on me. I have yet to find another copy. It has been out of print forever. It is wonderful! I am babbeling. Unfortunately, I don't really remember much about it except that it is wonderful and it has "Lios Alfar" or "Light Elves" in it. Also--read *all* of Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman" series. It is now collected into 10 convenient soft cover books plus "Death: The High Cost of Living." (hint: DO NOT start with "The Wake" you will be VERY confused!) If you think you're too old for comic books, try Graphic Novels. These are beautifully illustrated and have incredibly literate story lines (it helps if you know something about greek and norse mythology). Warning: If you are not a mature reader (i'd say more mature than the average 15-year-old boy), are offended by curse words, have nightmares easily, or do not like *any* nudity (please, please, do not buy these thinking they are skin-rags. They're not. Most of the nudity is Despair who is a short, rat-bitten, obese, haggard old woman. The rest is almost as appealing (and more appalling!)) There is also a collection of short-stories (all text) and he has a new novel out--those of you in the UK can't have missed it--*Neverwhere* which was released simultaniously with a BBC miniseries of the same name. He he he! I got to see it over here (US) at the Hero's Convention in Charlotte. It was GREAT!!! Sorry, but I'm so excited about all of this stuff! Now--Misty-stuff! My pronunciations: Yfandes--"if-AN-des" Talia--"Tal-ee-uh" Karal--"Carol" as in the name (or as in the song) Issica wrote: >4) The back cover of MPawn. The text is quite inaccurate, or else I have >completely misunderstood most of the book. Issica, that was REALLY bad, but here's another goof (admittedly not nearly so tragic!):The interior ads for "The Hero and the Crown" and "The Blue Sword" (I think by Robin McKinley, I can't really remember and they're up at school :^( )are switched. And this is in both copies of the books! (of course mine are about 10 years old and falling apart. At least the back cover is right, I think! and she wrote: >Phew. I could continue now with the cover MPrice, And the equally >inaccurate Baen covers to the Serrated Edge series. Oh, no joke! but I do REALLY like the way Tannim looks on "Born to Run," even if the Mach 1 doesn't look much like the car on the cover except that its a fast-back. The 3 I've seen certainly don't say "Mach 1" on the back, they say "Mustang" but they do on the sides in front of the wheel well above the false wheel vents. Also, the representation of Aurilia on the cover is laughable! at the point that Tannim and the elf-B**** are anywhere near fighting, she doesn't have on a glamour at all! Not to mention what Tania's wearing. I saw a metallic red Mach 1 yesterday in Columbia SC (where I'm taking that horrid class) and asked the guy how much it would take for him to sell it. He said he wouldn't, that he and his brother had restored it a couple of years ago. I wanted to cry. I think I have a fixation. Trae wrote: >Also, I re-read all my favorite books over'n'over'n'over... >a lot of people think I'm crazy. How many Misty fans Re-read at least twice? > I'd like to know I'm not a loon alone!! PLEASE! I am now on my second copy of Ender's Game, and almost all of my Misty and McCaffrey PB's have tape on the spines and some of them are held together with rubber bands! herald ro vethrie wrote: >Oh -- by the way -- on page 276 of By The Sword, Eldan says(Speaks) to >Ratha ::Hola, Hayburner!:: > Hola? Is that some obscure language? If not, where did he learn how to >speak Spanish? Just wondrin'. Bright blessings. Ummm. I'm not sure, but I was reading THe Sandman: THe Wake (sniffle, snifle, aching heart, tight throat, etc.) and in the last part Wil Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and periferal characters all say "Hola" at some point. I also think some of the dreams use the phrase and the guy who's been alive for a couple hundred years, and the guy at the Ren-fair, umm...and I think some more people, too. Maybe Misty got it from historical English-type stuff? I don't know. Sorana Shadowcat wrote: >1. Are there Gypsys in Velgarth? Yes! iirc, they are never called "gypsys" however, there are peddlers and (i think) tinkers. Remember the guy that Talia saved from the murder rap (the icky incest thing)? He had a brightly painted wagon (with dancing blue cats) and said something about making sure his clan got out of Hardorn. Whew. Finally finished slogging through about 7 digests. Sorry for the long post and all the fluffy stuff! Wind to thy wings, list-sibs! Thalionar *==========================================================* |Laura M. Laffoon Knight of Elfhame Fairgrove| |aka Sailor Makoto Protector of Children| |aka Thalionar Cultivator of Fast Cars| | | |"Hey! Watch it you Pyro! You almost scorched my boots!" | | Sailor Jupiter, from "Fractious Friends" | *==========================================================* ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 01:26:07 -0400 From: "Derek MacArthur" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Sword of Ice Message-ID: <33E1736F.EDE-+AT+-quickconnect.com> Joseph W. Simmons wrote: > On another note... was the LHM series ever released in hardback or is that > another (*sigh*) series of Misty's that only ended up in paperback? Yep, it was!! It was the second novel I read by Misty, and all three books were in one hardcover book. I ordered it thru a mail order thingie... can't remember right now which one! As yet unnamed...just Rachel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:50:31 -0700 From: Mark Severson To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Sword of Ice Message-ID: <33E221E7.5F34-+AT+-eonet.com> > > Joseph W. Simmons wrote: > > > On another note... was the LHM series ever released in hardback or is that another (*sigh*) series of Misty's that only ended up in paperback? > > Yep, it was!! It was the second novel I read by Misty, and all three > books were in one hardcover book. I ordered it thru a mail order > thingie... can't remember right now which one! > > As yet unnamed...just Rachel Tax Zombie here, you are probably referring to the Science Fiction Book Club which as most of Misty's work available in reasonably priced hardbacks. The only ones I am not sure of are Firebird, Sacred Ground and Sword of Ice. The rest I beleive they have. LHM, QO are multi book single volumes as are Oathbound and Oathbreaker. Another advantage of a hardback is that it's easier on the eyes - especially for us curmudgeons. Time to get. markttz-+AT+-eonet.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 03:17:20 -0400 (EDT) From: RoDeLiRiUm-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Stuff, random oddments and requests. Message-ID: <970801031719_1913323522-+AT+-emout03.mail.aol.com> Wow! Sarah McLachlan is cool! (sorry it's just a person wrote a Sarah song in a mail and it was a pleasant surprise.) So, anyways, yes. Also -- does ANYONe have any guitar chords for any Misty (valdemar) music? I have been searching far and wide for them, but so far the attempt is to no a-vale(pun not REALY intended. .. .) Especially the kero ones, cos they seem the easiest to decipher. So -- if anyone either owns or has a web site with any chords or music, please tell me?? ::sniffles and looks tearfully down in sadness:: It would be apreciated MUCHLY. :) Bright Blessing and Zhai'helleva, herald ro vethrie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 08:44:59 PDT From: "Leslie Weekley" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Valdemar and Need origins........ Message-ID: <199708011545.IAA12520-+AT+-f74.hotmail.com> On Need-- I had a thought. I believe the dieties were twins, a male and female. Could they possbly have "evolved" into the Goddess as the male and female aspects (yes, the Shin'a'in do have a four-faced male aspect too!) Otherwise I believe she may have come from much farther west, possibly even as far as the ocean that also borders the Empire... (ok, ok..that's a bit far) On Valdemar-- I think I know where ML got the idea for the name Valdemar.. There was a village called Valdemarsvik, (I think that's it) in Scandanavia. It was an ancient Medeival village and a fjord with the same name..there is much info available on theses places, and I stumbled across this looing something up on Alta Vista.. let me know what you think. Lasara shena Tale'sedrin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:24:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Allen Hyde To: Leslie Weekley Subject: Re: Valdemar and Need origins........ Message-ID: On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Leslie Weekley wrote: > I had a thought. I believe the dieties were twins, a male and female. > Could they possbly have "evolved" into the Goddess as the male and > female aspects (yes, the Shin'a'in do have a four-faced male aspect > too!) Two things. First, I think that Need's twin God(dess) has been used to support the suggestion that all of Velgarth's deities are merely forms of Vkandis and Kalenal. The second is that, IIRC, the God of the Shin'a'in is not an "aspect" of the Goddess. Rather, he is seen as a separate God who has four aspects that match the four aspects of the Goddess. > I think I know where ML got the idea for the name Valdemar.. There was > a village called Valdemarsvik, (I think that's it) in Scandanavia. There have also been at least two King Valdemar's of Denmark, IIRC. Actually, when you consider that "vald" (forest) is bound to be a very high frequency Germanic root, I wouldn't be surprised to find that "valdemar" is a fairly common name. I wonder what "mar" is? I can't think of anything off-hand that would match up. I might ask my Scandinavian linguistics colleagues and find out. May the seas be your solace and the forests a refuge for your spirit, Cennydd, Councilor of Mist Kenneth Allen Hyde | No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife Univ. of Delaware | between the shoulder blades will seriously Dept. of Linguistics | cramp his style -- Old Jhereg proverb kenny-+AT+-Udel.Edu | A mind is a terrible toy to waste! -- Me //www.udel.edu/kenny/prof/ken.html or .../kenny/pers/green.silences.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 13:32:08 -0400 From: "Joseph W. Simmons" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Sword of Ice Message-ID: <33E21D98.8C86799-+AT+-pop.net> Mark Severson wrote: > > Tax Zombie here, you are probably referring to the Science Fiction > Book > Club which as most of Misty's work available in reasonably priced > hardbacks. The only ones I am not sure of are Firebird, Sacred Ground > and Sword of Ice. The rest I beleive they have. LHM, QO are multi > book > single volumes as are Oathbound and Oathbreaker. Another advantage of > a hardback is that it's easier on the eyes - especially for us > curmudgeons. Thanks for the response, but I meant ACTUAL hardback releases from DAW (i.e. Like Storm Breaking or The White Gryphon) and NOT the special book club editions. They are rarely as nice as the actual ones from the original publisher. Am I correct in assuming a NO for the LHM and AoQ? Nightveil -------------------------------- Joseph W. Simmons simmonjw-+AT+-pop.net http://smad.jmu.edu/~simmonjw ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 11:08:44 -0700 From: Molly To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Hulda\re-reading\covers Message-ID: <33E2261E.3A14-+AT+-sonic.net> I have a question about Hulda. OK. She obviously wanted power and to get it she would try to gain the dependency of the heir. WHat I don't get is if she wanted the dependency of the heir why was she so set on making sure that Elspeth never became a herald and thus would never become heir? I know there was the guy who was paying her but you would think that she would put her own intrests abouve his. Maybe the answer is at a part that I miss every time I read it or something but I thought it was rather odd. ************************************************************ On re-reading. I re-read every book I have and enjoyed. I mean if you are going to buy a book which can be expensive, here Misty books cost $6.00 It is pointless to pay that money if you are only going to read it once. I suppose that that is what libraries are for. Oh well in any case re-reading stuff also causes you to catch things that you missed the first time while you were trying to keep up with what was going on. When re-reading you already know what is going to happen so you can pay closer attention to the little things. ************************************************************ On the covers. Well I think that the covers of LHM are pretty bad in keeping up with the story but the worst is the back of LHM. I mean how could you be so off with that book. All you would have to do is read the first 2 chapters and you would know that Vanyel was not born with the mage gift and that he was being sent off not for his dangerous powers but because his father saw him as a weakling and wanted Vanyel to be turned into a REAL man. Those are just my own opinions and such. Favorite flavored sheep to all, Molly ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 14:51:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Ashali9928-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Covers, sites and other stuff Message-ID: <970801145022_1846300569-+AT+-emout18.mail.aol.com> Hello everyone! First of all, in MPromise, I know the thing about everytime the Swarm tried to go to Haven Medren's lute strings snapped but what is this big fuss about it? And when did Van break Medren's old lute? And also I think on the cover of MPrice they should have Van bleeding through those torn places in his shirt. Maybe I have a weird sense of facial expressions but I think he looks like he's silently asking for one final bit of strength to defeat the Dark Lord. The guy with the mask in MPawn is Moondance with the crystal flute(funny how someone noticed that detail) and the Grim Reaper proves Van's many encounters with Death and it hovers over him for much of the story. Also, does anyone know some really good Valdemar sites for either the Web or AOL? I know about Valdemar's Heartstone. Savarana Sappharine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 97 14:27:01 -0800 From: "LWhitman" To: Subject: Re: Hulda Message-ID: <9708018704.AA870471087-+AT+-ccmailhost.nwcomputing.com> I have a question about Hulda. OK. She obviously wanted power and to get it she would try to gain the dependency of the heir. WHat I don't get is if she wanted the dependency of the heir why was she so set on making sure that Elspeth never became a herald and thus would never become heir? I know there was the guy who was paying her but you would think that she would put her own intrests abouve his. Maybe the answer is at a part that I miss every time I read it or something but I thought it was rather odd. --- It could be for the same reason that Elspeth's father thought that he could rule, even though he wasn't a herald. To someone accustomed to the stardard rules of nobility, the necessity of becoming a herald may appear to be just an old-fashioned convention. The concept of "What's best for the country and the people" is rather foreign to a power-hungry adept. Also, Ancar's speculated confusion about Elspeth's abdication (In Winds of Fury) "Who would voluntarily give up power?!" That probably stemmed from Hulda's teachings. In other words, Hulda probably didn't believe that a non-herald could not be the monarch even if she was the daughter of the queen. Otherwise, the marriage of the daughter of the queen of Valdemar, even if she wasn't the heir, would still be a powerful connection to Valdemar. Starfire ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:58:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Ashali9928-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Re: Hulda Message-ID: <970801185816_1846322471-+AT+-emout18.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 8/1/97 9:40:30 PM, you wrote: <> IMHO Hulda thought she could get by the law because in AFall it said Hulda never believed that Companions were more than well-trained beasts. So she might've thought that the queen could make the "horse" supposedly "choose" Elspeth. Or she thought she might have to bribe someone to get a Companion for Elspeth. Savarana Sappharine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 19:13:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Ashali9928-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Tylendel's repudiation Message-ID: <970801191313_44165682-+AT+-emout07.mail.aol.com> Okay, in AoQ on page 271 it said "They don't choose where evil is-and on the very rare occasion where someone has been corrupted beyond redemption-and the last was two hundred years ago-they will repudiate their Chosen" And in AFall in the Prologue they had some crud about " Only one Herald had ever succumbed to that temptation and his companion repudiated him and he died shortly thereafter." Corrupted beyond redemption!!!!! Succumbing to tempatation!!!!!!! That makes me mad!!!! Tylendel was NOT evil!!!!!! He was NOT corrupted!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, well. But I must admit, it's nice of Misty to incorporate all those tantalizing tidbits in the Arrows trilogy into LHM. Also, on a different note, on Amazon books you can get a non mass market edition of MPawn although it is a reissue. Does anyone know what it looks like? In my experience non mass market books tend to have the same cover, but the book is a little bigger. If anyone could tell me, I'd appreciate it. Savarana Sappharine ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Aug 97 01:20:34 +0200 From: "Oliver S." To: "Misty admirers" Subject: Re: Valdemar origins........ Message-ID: <199708012316.BAA28447-+AT+-linux.fisk.helsingborg.se> Lasara shena Tale'sedrin came up with an interesting angle: >On Valdemar-- > >I think I know where ML got the idea for the name Valdemar.. There was >a village called Valdemarsvik, (I think that's it) in Scandanavia. It >was an ancient Medeival village and a fjord with the same name..there is >much info available on theses places, and I stumbled across this looing >something up on Alta Vista.. let me know what you think. Kenneth replied: >There have also been at least two King Valdemar's of Denmark, IIRC. >Actually, when you consider that "vald" (forest) is bound to be a very >high frequency Germanic root, I wouldn't be surprised to find that >"valdemar" is a fairly common name. I wonder what "mar" is? I can't >think of anything off-hand that would match up. I might ask my >Scandinavian linguistics colleagues and find out. And I add to it with my scant knowledge: The name Valdemarsvik (the one I think you're talking about, there are several) derives from the Swedish King Valdemar, who ruled most of Scandinavia under the name of Sweden from 1250-1275 (according to rumor, he was quite the handsome charmer :) I've thought on this myself, since we studied Swedish History in school a while back, but discarded the idea since variations of Valdemar (Vladimir for one) is quite a common name in most Baltic countries and Russia. I can't think of any Swedish or Norweigan word 'mar' either. Issica, Knight of the Amber and Marigold, Knight of OOPS, and Elven Knight at Fairgrove, who is miffed that her sword always get's mussed up by Vanyel :( ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:07:52 -0500 From: snowshadow-+AT+-juno.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: questions, Sword of Ice, hardcover LHM, and SERRAted Edge Message-ID: <19970801.181216.11686.0.snowshadow-+AT+-juno.com> OK let me see if I can answer at least two of your questions.... 1)I have no clue whether or not there are gypsies in Velgarth. *G* 2) The name of the story you are looking to avoid is "Chance," by Mark Shepherd and starts on page 198 in my paperback DAW. 3) And I am reasonably certain it is only Adepts hat get the silver hair and blue eyes. It comes from working with Node-magic. Over a prolonged period of time it will "bleach" an Adept. I think I read in either the Mage Winds or the Mage Storms series that Node-magic also is the reason Companions are always non-dyeably white with blue eyes. Can someone help me on this? In response to Rachel's question on "Sword of Ice..." It is available in paperback...my copy, as I have said, is a paperback, and I have seen other paperback copies in many bookstores. To NIghtveil: I've been hunting Misty books down for a year and I've never seen ANY hardback! Much less the LHM trilogy. Then again, that could be a peculiarity of the bookstores in my region, I don't know. I have a question. Everyone is talking about the cover art to Born To RUn and I am beginning to think I had a different copy! Was the book ever published under a different label than the one it currently is under? Because on my copy I don't have Tannim and Aurilia fighting at all, I have Tannim and Tania in the Mach One...OK well, HAD as I've not seen this book in YEARS and I can't find it in a bookstore, That's the end of my post. Peanut butter and banana sheep to all! Snowshadow snowshadow-+AT+-juno.com ICQ# 124313 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 19:46:47 -0400 From: "Joseph W. Simmons" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: questions, Sword of Ice, hardcover LHM, and SERRAted Edge Message-ID: <33E27567.49B8EE13-+AT+-pop.net> snowshadow-+AT+-juno.com wrote: > To NIghtveil: I've been hunting Misty books down for a year and I've > never seen ANY hardback! Much less the LHM trilogy. Then again, that > could be a peculiarity of the bookstores in my region, I don't know. Well... thus far the only books that I have managed to find of Misty's in hardcover (actually from DAW, not book club editions) are the Gryphon Trilogy and the Storm Trilogy.... however I have been told by several bookstores that the Black Gryphon is out of print in hardback and virtually impossible to get, much to my chagrin, since i have the other two in hardback. :( I would love to get ALL of the Velgarth books in a hardback collection... since i already have most of them in paperback. Its a pity DAW doesn't see fit to publish all of Misty's books in hardcover. Nightveil -------------------------------- Joseph W. Simmons simmonjw-+AT+-pop.net http://smad.jmu.edu/~simmonjw ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Aug 97 01:51:48 +0200 From: "Oliver S." To: Subject: Re: Sword of Ice, hardcover LHM, and SERRAted Edge Message-ID: <199708012347.BAA28587-+AT+-linux.fisk.helsingborg.se> Heyla! >In response to Rachel's question on "Sword of Ice..." It is available in >paperback...my copy, as I have said, is a paperback, and I have seen >other paperback copies in many bookstores. Just want to add my 'me too'. So = me too. >To NIghtveil: I've been hunting Misty books down for a year and I've >never seen ANY hardback! Much less the LHM trilogy. Me too (annoying, aren't I?). >I have a question. Everyone is talking about the cover art to Born To Run >and I am beginning to think I had a different copy! Was the book ever >published under a different label than the one it currently is under? >Because on my copy I don't have Tannim and Aurilia fighting at all, I >have Tannim and Tania in the Mach One...OK well, HAD as I've not seen >this book in YEARS and I can't find it in a bookstore, You must've had a different copy. 'Kay, here's a description for you: Aurilia is wearing a short red mini-dress, with yellow flames radiating from her hands, and is looking down on Tannim and Tania, poised to throw the flame. Tannim is half standing, with a blue flame coming from his right hand (which is outstreched towards Aurilia). His left hand is busy helping Tania up from the ground. They are in front of a black mustang, parked at an airport. They are all wearing very clean clothes, 'cept that Tania has holes on the knees of her jeans. Wind to thy wings, Issica ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:50:42 -0400 (EDT) From: RTeclectic-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Error Condition Re: Friends/Bye Message-ID: <970801205042_-1306710858-+AT+-emout03.mail.aol.com> In a message dated 97-07-19 04:32:28 EDT, you write: > >I had to call my friend (who had introduced me to MZB > >and fantasy in general) to tell her to read this book - and she had just > >bought it (Great minds think alike you know!) But she hadn't gotten to > >the part when Vanyel loses 'Lendel, so I told her I'd call her back > >later... > Have to agree with you there- my best friend was in my advisory( before we > became friends) and I had noticed that we kept brinning the same book to > read > - all ML books after the5th time that happend( the first time i was > rereading > one and therefore willing to start a conversation about it) we both had > Magics Pawn I went up to her and showed her the cover and asked her if she > liked it alot she did and we decided to see where we where in the book - we > where on the same page- now we're getting another friend hooked.( the three > of us spent the first three monthes of school telling each other that they > had to meet this really cool person then figured out we we're talking about > each other and we'd already met- and this year all three of us will be in > the > same advisory- we're hoping to get our advisor hooked- we told her about > Kerowyn and Need and she got really interested but she said she doesn't like > Fantsy becuase it always seems that they just call up the Magic and > everythings fixed- Not so with Misty, weve been brainstorming ways to get > her > to read it in case she didn't over the summer- hopefully she read and was > converted.) > Okay that was sort of misty related > Bye i'll be back in a couple of weeks(vacation and no computer::arrg::) > Rainbow sheep- in your favorite flavor to all > RT Actually I am back- And I have no Idea if this ever even reached you guys Regan( I Hate long car trips) the eclectic ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 17:01:54 -0700 From: Sorana Shadowcat To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: White Mists/Companions Message-ID: <33E278F2.6E71-+AT+-olypen.com> Heyla all! Heidi, The White Mists of Power is not a Misty book. It's by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (I think). Issica brought this book up when I said we should get Jody Lee to do ......oh drat! can't remember what that thing was......anyway, she said the picture on the cover of White Mists was how she always thought of Van. Personally I like the way Jody Lee drew him on the cover of MPromise the best. About the Companions. I think I remember Gwena saying that the Companions drew the magical energy from anywhere they could reach. Nodes, Ley-lines, probably even those little trickles, & streams of Magic. I could be wrong. Zhai'helleva, Sorana Shadowcat Knight of Amber & Marigold, soon to be (I hope) Goddess of Unicorns *************************************************************************What is the dark; shadows around you, why not take heart in the new day? Ever and always. Always and ever. No one can promise a dream for you. Time gave both darkness and dreams to you. --Enya ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1288 **********************************