MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1825 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Vent-Christmas and grief by Lynne Walker 2) Thank you by Amy Trujillo 3) Re: Thank you by "Angie" 4) owlflight by Lythurienne SunHawk 5) Re: Vent-Christmas and grief by Ardath6-+AT+-aol.com 6) Heyla!! Remember me? by Jeffery Kuebler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:36:19 -0800 (PST) From: Lynne Walker To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Vent-Christmas and grief Message-ID: <19981226023619.14371.rocketmail-+AT+-send201.yahoomail.com> Dear Amy, My sympathies to you, I can't pretend to know how you feel right now. I lost my grandparents years apart, my grandfather died in the winter (after Christmas) and I grieved for him for many years. Vent all you want & if you don't want to vent onlist, email me anytime. Love & sympathy, Lady Starlight > Amy > == "Just Breathe..." _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free -+AT+-yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:10:32 -0600 From: Amy Trujillo To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Thank you Message-ID: <36848BE6.72FD-+AT+-southwind.net> I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful messages and support. It really helped to know that there were that many people who cared. I mentioned my Uncle Henry in my last post.....well just after Christmas dinner we got the call that he had passed away. I guess bad things really do come in threes, sigh. Thank you again. Amy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:13:40 +0800 From: "Angie" To: Subject: Re: Thank you Message-ID: <01be30d1$8e3fda40$0100007f-+AT+-heraldtg> :I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful messages and :support. It really helped to know that there were that many people who :cared. I mentioned my Uncle Henry in my last post.....well just after :Christmas dinner we got the call that he had passed away. I guess bad :things really do come in threes, sigh. Thank you again. : :Amy hiya amy... and listsibs, I'm really sorry that... all that.. happened. I'm really clumsy with all this, so bear with me? Amy, you have the whole list sorrowing for you and your family, please be strong in this sad time. But remember that death is just a reprieve, and is as much a part of life as birth. It's only natural to feel grief, but one should not take death too hard. I'm sure that your uncle would not want you to feel so bad. Write, if ever you feel the need to "vent". Myself, I was never sad at funerals. Flame me all you want, but my belief is that death is not pain and torture, but peace and rest. Something to welcome, and not to hate, fear, etc. Like I said, I'm bad at this. without her colossal sig shadowblade ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 21:42:02 +0800 From: Lythurienne SunHawk To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: owlflight Message-ID: <2.2.32.19981226134202.00683a8c-+AT+-qinet.net> i got owlflight as a christmas present. i've been listening to the comments on it, especially that it seems to be of inferior quality to the rest of misty's work. i think i sort of know why. i found owlflight to be rather heavy on the happy ending bit... what i mean is, well, there wasn't really enough conflict. or suffering. let's track the happiness level of darian through the book. at the start, darian's doing so-so. he gets a little worse when he finds out the villagers' plans to supplant justyn, and then a little more when the barbarians capture the village and kill justyn. as soon as he meets the hawkbrothers, his happiness level just starts going up. and up. there's a slight dip, or maybe just a pause, when darian and the others go to free the villagers, and he has to fight the mage. then it goes back up. darian meets the tayledras when? about one third of the way through the book? (not sure... too lazy to go get it and check... hee hee!) meaning, in other words, that owlflight is majority 'happy ending.' none of misty's other books have anything close to that. AotQ, i think comes closest: talia starts down, gets up a little when she's chosen, goes down when she gets teased, then goes up again after jadus, down a bit when she's nearly killed, then it keeps going up. i think. but it still isn't majority no/little conflict. i think that what i've just pointed out might be one of the major reasons that owlflight isn't nearly as liked as other books. -selene ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ Selene Tan http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8121/index.html seltan-+AT+-qinet.net | selly-+AT+-geocities.com ICQ UIN: 5161924 ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:36:37 EST From: Ardath6-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Vent-Christmas and grief Message-ID: <1a047e7b.368564f5-+AT+-aol.com> Amy, I'm so sorry to hear about your terrible Christmas.. I've never lost any people that I really care about, so I can't really know exactly what you're going through, but my sympathy is with you just the same. And don't worry about venting your feelings on the list; I'm sure lots of other listsibs besides myself will be willing to listen and offer any help they can. I hope the new year holds more happiness for you than this month did. ::hugs:: Ardath Summerstorm ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 20:11:33 -0500 From: Jeffery Kuebler To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Heyla!! Remember me? Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19981226201133.0069edd0-+AT+-pop.mindspring.com> Heyla all! For those of you who don't remember, I am the Lady Astreia (on her dad's e-mail account) and I joined the list last summer. School started (blasted Mundania) and I lost track of the MLML. *sniff sniff* I've missed everyone terriblly, I promise. I'm now receiving in digest format (I had 763 messages when I finally got around to looking at it again), and it sounds like some good stuff is going on! I'm not going to "quoth he", I'm just going to comment on stuff I've read and done in the past forever months... Christmas was great! It almost got cold in the heart of Dixie! I got a wonderful Celtic CD by Ceredwen. If you're into Celtic music, this is Gooooooood stuff. I have every Velgarth book in paperback. Does anyone know the release dates for OwlSight in paperback? I can't wait to own it! Urtho: SEAN CONNERY Dirk: Bill Pullman Kris: Tom Cruise Selenay: Susan Sarandon Talia: Wynona Rider Elspeth: Kirsten Dunst (is this starting to sound like Little Women all over again? I can't help it, It was a great cast!) I like the idea of James Earl Jones for the Companions voices. But wouldn't younger children think of Mufasa? Amy -- I wish there was something that I could say that would make it hurt less. No one should have to go through such a Christmas. My prayers are with you, and you can write me anytime you want just to vent. I hope everyone has had a good Midwinter Festival! I've missed you all, and I want to hear how eeryone of you has been. (How many are signed up on the list now?) Christmas&Chaunakah&Kwanzaa&Whatever-You-Celebrate Sheep to everybody respectivley. Yours always, Zai'helleva, Lady Astreia, Proud Knight of Fluff, the (sort-of) Bardic Trainee, Slayer of Morons, Keeper of Dragons, and Princess of Bruhaha and Everything Obscure! ICQ# 14875992 ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1825 **********************************