30 days of books: Day Four

Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever

Charles de Lint’s Newford books.  Which may or may not technically be a series.

I feel like I cop out every time I bring up de Lint in an answer, but his books are just magic.  I know plenty of people who find them too saccharine sweet, or who tire (perhaps justifiably so) of the intertwining between magic and the homeless.  But I find myself turning back to these books time and again, searching for the magic in the streets and characters, and longing for Newford.

And hell, I am Sophie, even though I’m a writer and she’s an artist

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Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.

30 days of books: Day Four

Day 04 – Your favorite book or series ever

Charles de Lint’s Newford books.  Which may or may not technically be a series.

I feel like I cop out every time I bring up de Lint in an answer, but his books are just magic.  I know plenty of people who find them too saccharine sweet, or who tire (perhaps justifiably so) of the intertwining between magic and the homeless.  But I find myself turning back to these books time and again, searching for the magic in the streets and characters, and longing for Newford.

And hell, I am Sophie, even though I’m a writer and she’s an artist

( Read the rest of this entry » )

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.