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This Vox article about fantasy writers to read while you're waiting for the next AoIaF book is fascinating--both because it unabashedly loves (female!) fantasy writers that I love (Robin McKinley, Megan Whalen Turner, and Ellen Kushner) and writes about them in interesting ways...and because I find the writers in this list totally different from GRRM--I don't like GRRM, but I lovelovelove these writers (well, I haven't ever been able to finish Swordpoint, but I know that when I do, I will love it. It's the Pamela Dean's Tam Lin of my 30's).

There's some spoilers in this for the Queen's Thief books, but it also describes that series as "Sun Tzu in kid lit drag," which is one of my favorite sentences I've read this year.

Oh, I want to write again! I can't wait until my life has settled down and I can do that!!!

And now for something completely different: I keep seeing campaign signs in my parents' neighbors yard that just say JESUS 2020 and I, for one, thoroughly approve of the evangelical Christians' intentions to vote for Jesus as a write-in candidate. Because of course that's what that means, right? It's not just virtue signalling to no end while they vote again for one of the most evil presidents we've ever had, right???

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I am not really a fantasy person, I've realized (I like lighter fantasy, but I'm not big into EPIC HIGH FANTASY; like, a part of me would like to reread ASOIAF, but another part of me is like, "... Why?"), but I really want to read more McKinley because Beauty remains my everything even after all these years! I also want to give the Queen's Thief books a try one of these ...... years??? Why is my to-read list so LONG?

I really think you'd love more of McKinley's books! I truly do!

Think about it like this: unlike all the rest of us who have been waiting for years for the last book (the first book was published in 1996!!!!), when you get around to reading TQT, you won't have to wait for further books to be published!

Hahaha, yes! My extremely slow reading lifestyle pays off at last!

Any particular McKinley recs? I read part of Rosedaughter years ago and kind of drifted away from it (I think I just loved Beauty so much I was kinda biased?) and I've got copies of Spindle's End, Sunshine, and The Hero and the Crown somewhere but haven't read them yet!

I definitely think you would love Spindle's End and Sunshine! Sunshine is allegedly a vampire book, but it's just as much about baking and making magical charms as it is about anything else! And of course Spindle's End is another wonderful fairytale retelling, and the relationships between multiple women are very much at the heart of the book.

Maybe JESUS 2020 was an exclamation, like, "Jesus, 2020! Cut it out already!"

(hi, just passing through. I'm reading The King of Elfland's Daughter and decided to Google Lirazel.)

That would certainly be more appropriate!

(Hi there! Yeah, I've had this handle for over a decade, so a lot of the Google results lead to me on various sites. I hope you're enjoying the book!)