false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177968657m/746115.jpg 186427 7 Nobody does urban fantasy better than Charles de Lint. He has a gift for creating engaging, fully realized characters, totally believable dialogue, and a feeling that magic is just around the corner.<p> <I>Someplace to Be Flying</I> is set in Newford, a town familiar to readers of de Lint. (He set two prior novels (<I>Memory and Dream</I> and <I>Trader</I>) and two anthologies (<I>Dreams Underfoot</I> and <I>The Ivory and the Horn</I>) in Newford.) One late night, as Hank drives his gypsy cab, his reliable though perilous city is transformed. He encounters the mythical "animal people," and the experience leaves him--and the reader--questioning accepted reality.<p> "Hank just wanted away from here. He'd sampled some hallucinogens when he was a kid and the feeling he had now was a lot like coming down from an acid high. Everything slightly askew, illogical things that somehow made sense, everything too sharp and clear when you looked at it but fading fast in your peripheral vision, blurred, like it didn't really exist." Fans of Emma Bull and Terri Windling (as both an editor and an author) will enjoy de Lint. He can make you believe "as many as six impossible things before breakfast." <I>--Nona Vero</I> "The [Newford] books have all been written in such a way that you should be able to pick up any one and get a full and complete story. However, characters do reoccur, off center stage as it were, and their stories do follow a sequence." 1484044 book 1998 Someplace to Be Flying (Newford Book 8) total:842|5:378|4:315|3:131|2:18|1:0| 842 3579 1185 68 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 3 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jun 22 08:32:18 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 08:56:09 -0700 2007
and it's a travesty that none of my fantas...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 2 1 false Mon Nov 10 16:50:48 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 16:57:45 -0800 2008
Ok, so there are about 200 characters (slight hyperbole), and de Lint gets so bogged down by trying to make them all int...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 2 1 false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 12:25:45 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 13:11:53 -0700 2008
Taking place in de Lint's evolving city of Newford, an Ottawa-...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 3 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 11:38:14 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 21:45:54 -0800 2009
This book was a mixed bag for me. I liked some of the characters quite a bit (particularly Jack, Katy, and Kerry), I liked the premise, and there are several passages where...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 2 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Feb 29 11:57:14 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 11:59:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 1 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 14:59:07 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 12:19:21 -0800 2009
Though I'd never read Charles de Lint before, I liked Someplace to Be Flying so much that I went out and bought three more of his books when I finished. De Lint's prose had some thin spots where the story stretched to transparency and I c...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 1 false Thu Feb 05 07:50:39 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 07:50:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:34:05 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 10:33:44 -0800 2009 1 This time we are taught lessons on letting go and letting be while learning as is always a theme, that there is more to the worl...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 0 false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 04:13:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 04:16:58 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 1734176 0330368702 9780330368704 11 2 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187532177m/1734176.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1734176.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 1 false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 14:34:33 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 14:20:39 -0700 2009
Before I read Someplace to be Flying, if you had asked me what I loved a...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 18:15:59 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 18:22:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Dec 22 11:52:23 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:54:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 0 false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 11:28:25 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 11:33:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 2 false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 11 18:53:21 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 28 06:24:21 -0700 2009
And while this novel certainly had its moments of being just as absorbing as...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 0 false Wed Feb 18 17:38:09 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 17:35:52 -0800 2009
With "Someplace to be Flying," de Lint uses Native American mythology (Raven and Coyote) as the basis for a thorough examination on the nature of prejudice, as some...more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 0 false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 16:22:42 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 16:24:52 -0800 2009 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 3 0 false Thu Jun 25 17:28:27 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 17:30:02 -0700 2009 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 0 false Fri Nov 28 14:18:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 14:19:06 -0800 2008 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 10:43:48 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 18:57:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 186427 076530757X 9780765307576 764 58 4.25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172532834m/186427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186427.Someplace_to_Be_Flying_Newford_Book_8_ 5 0 false Mon Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Sun Feb 22 14:58:32 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:00:44 -0800 2009 4 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=746115