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nasamuffin, book enjoyer

nasamuffin@bookwyrm.social

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Avid fiction reader, wistful nonfiction non-finisher. Sci-fi and fantasy are my eternal loves; I dabble in romance when the mood strikes.

You can also catch me @nasamuffin@jorts.horse.

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69% complete! nasamuffin, book enjoyer has read 69 of 100 books.

commented on Searching for dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (The Enchanted Forest chronicles ;)

Patricia C. Wrede, Patricia C. Wrede: Searching for dragons (1991, Harcourt Brace)

With the aid of King Mendanbar, Princess Cimorene rescues the dragon Kazul and saves the …

This one went by super fast, typical middle grade book. Very fun, although I'm not exactly sure why we didn't get to see any sign of Cimorene falling, only the other way around. I guess she didn't turn him down and was willing to adventure with him, which was sign enough, but it still felt like the bar was rather low here.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5) (2003)

Tales from Earthsea is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula …

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action to violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude. Heroes brandish their swords, lasers, wands, as mechanically as combine harvesters, reaping profits. Profoundly disturbing moral choices are sanitized, made cute, made safe. The passionately conceived ideas of the great storytellers are copied, stereotyped, reduced to toys, molded in bright-colored plastic, advertised, sold, broken, junked, replaceable, interchangeable.

Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5) by  (Page 559)

(from the foreword)