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The Earth is Made of Stardust
This collection of stories including "Veronica's Gift," "Porch Swing," and "A View of Wickerwork," that highlight author Llywellyn's talents as a fantasy writer.
- GenresFiction
168 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2000
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Morgan Llywelyn
72 books1,018 followersMorgan Llywelyn (born 1937) is an American-born Irish author best known for her historical fantasy, historical fiction, and historical non-fiction. Her fiction has received several awards and has sold more than 40 million copies, and she herself is recipient of the 1999 Exceptional Celtic Woman of the Year Award from Celtic Women International.
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October 31, 2009
I can't help but wonder .. is this a YA story collection? Telling and no showing. Awkward pacing. Heavy-handed dialogue.
I remember now why I put this down years ago and it's been sitting in my book pile, forgotten (with a hint of disdain upon sight), all this time.
One story so far - The Porch Swing - I've liked. It's got some imagery instead of being 95% passive voice summation; was interesting. Two others were tolerable and I could start to see what people are talking about when they laud her storytelling. But the other stories .. well, no.
At least one of the stories isn't Y.A., but its clumsy portrayal of desperate lust is yet another on the list of dreadful cliches -- heck, two stories later, virtually the same ending occurs!
Overall, I felt the stories are too short to be executed well, thus rendering the dreadfully cliche and pathetically unfascinating twistless twist endings banal and utterly unsatisfying.
I remember now why I put this down years ago and it's been sitting in my book pile, forgotten (with a hint of disdain upon sight), all this time.
One story so far - The Porch Swing - I've liked. It's got some imagery instead of being 95% passive voice summation; was interesting. Two others were tolerable and I could start to see what people are talking about when they laud her storytelling. But the other stories .. well, no.
At least one of the stories isn't Y.A., but its clumsy portrayal of desperate lust is yet another on the list of dreadful cliches -- heck, two stories later, virtually the same ending occurs!
Overall, I felt the stories are too short to be executed well, thus rendering the dreadfully cliche and pathetically unfascinating twistless twist endings banal and utterly unsatisfying.
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