2015/01: Tam Lin -- Pamela Dean (reread)

Tam Lin -- Pamela Dean (reread)

... the flaw of the novel-reader is to want to know what will happen if a situation is allowed to develop unmolested. [p. 190]

Reread of an old favourite. When I discovered this novel (my review at the time is here) it made me terribly nostalgic for an academic life I'd never really had. ( not really spoilery review )

2015/02: Arcadia -- James Treadwell

2015/02: Arcadia -- James Treadwell

I so desperately wanted things to be different, not stupid and empty. I never noticed how hard people work just to make existence bearable. All those things I despised, comfort, money. The things everyone spent all their time thinking about instead of God. They did it because the gods are intolerable. It must have taken centuries of struggle for people to forget magic. So much effort. And I brought it blazing back and threw the world into catastrophe. [loc7348]

The concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Advent, Arcadia begins on an isolated island, Home, some time after the events of Anarchy. ( slightly spoilery review but not detailed spoilers )