Review:

January, 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 -- Spellbound (The Legend of the Ice People, Book 1) by Margit Sandemo

This very readable novel is the first in a series by best-selling Scandinavian author Margit Sandemo, whose books are being made available for the first time in English. Sandemo is the author of a hundred and seventy novels, a feat that becomes more believable when you note that, at two-hundred and fifty-five nicely-spaced pages, "Spellbound" is actually a bit short for a Fantasy novel. A forty-seven-book series is still an impressive achievement whatever way you look at it.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 -- A Field Guide to Surreal Botany

I would recommend a copy of this book to be nestled in among any collection of its more prosaic ilk.

Monday, January 5, 2009 -- Sparks and Shadows by Lucy Snyder

"Sparks and Shadows" is a collection of poems, short stories, and essays by GUD contributor Lucy Snyder ('Sublety', Issue 2). Snyder has a unique voice and her work is almost instantly recognisable. Dive into this collection and you begin to feel like you're swimming around inside her head. It's not necessarily comfortable in there, but it's certainly interesting.