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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2004-11-14 04:42 pm

Book

32. The Grand Tour, by Wrede and Stevermer.
Fantasy of Manners :). Regency novel where magic works - light mystery, light romance. Recommended (but go read Sorcery And Cecelia first - I can't imagine reading them in inverted sequence).

[identity profile] elizabear.livejournal.com 2004-11-14 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ok, requested from the library. :)

Funnily, I just picked up 4 books by Wrede at the library today on a whim - the Dragons series.

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2004-11-14 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I can leave The Grand Tour out in the kitchen (if you've already read Sorcery...). If I can find Sorcery too, I'll leave both out where you'll find them.

[identity profile] ealdthryth.livejournal.com 2004-12-08 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the tip on Sorcery and Cecelia. I just finished it today. It was the best book I have read in a while. I have had a spate of mediocre books for some reason. Our library system doesn't have The Grand Tour yet, but I'll keep watching. I requested another book by each of the authors to see if I like those.

regency magic

(Anonymous) 2005-02-05 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Patricia Wrede also wrote a series of books apparently set in the same world featureing Mairlon the Magician, 3 of them.

richild la gaucere
(book junkie)

Re: regency magic

[identity profile] ealdthryth.livejournal.com 2005-02-05 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Mairelon the Magician happened to be the Patricia Wrede book I tried after Sorcery and Cecelia. I enjoyed it. I will look for the other two after this semester is over. I have to read sixteen books in different genres this semester and already used up the fantasy one!