[LMB] _Memory_ reviewed / (OT) recommendation

Ruth Frey solsticebiz at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 15 00:16:50 GMT 2008


    > Lois wrote:
>
>Some wag once said that a writer's idea of a proper review is "2000 
>words of closely reasoned praise". This comes darned close...
>
>http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/01/14/review-memory-by-lois-mcmaster->bujold/

"When I grow up, I want to write like this."
   
  I couldn't have put it better or more concisely myself.  :D
  
> Stewart Dean wrote: 
>One of the best fantasy *songs* (although it may be based on a Scottish 
>folk tale) I've ever heard is Stan Rogers rendition of
>"The Witch of Westmoreland",. perhaps best heard from Between the 
>Breaks, Live! CD.

  I love that song, too!  (I also have it on the Golden Bough album.)  I've been known to sing it in the shower; it's just about exactly long enough, and a very  nice song (my voice might be another matter, but  . . .).  :)
   
  -- Ruth


"Y'know, when you're a kid, they tell you it's all grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that's it. No. The truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker, and so much madder . . . and so much *better.*" Elton, "Love and Monsters."
       
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