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Tam Lin

Pamela Dean,

Terri Windling (Introduction)

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Nov 17, 2008 Christine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy-myth-and-fairy, diverse-and-women-authors

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Jun 19, 2012 Hazel rated it liked it

I almost aborted this around Chapter 2, because it seemed to be a story about a girl going to school. Both my girlhood and my schooldays are too far in the past for this to appeal. But I kept on, and was rewarded with a sense of nostalgia for the liberal-arts education I never had. Dean made me regret my physics degree and consider whether the OU would let me do a course or two on literature. Her story is light on plot, and the folk-tale/faery-connection both slight and obvious. Her pacing is un ...more

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Mar 03, 2011 Katy rated it liked it

This book sets up for the story of Tam Lin for most of the book and then just a few pages of the actual ballad near the end.
It references many other works of fiction and I am sure that I missed many clues that were given in those references.
I am just not as familiar with many of them as other people.

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Nov 09, 2008 Lena rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mulitple-times, favorites

I absolutely love this book, reading it for my fourth or fifth time. I love how literary Janet is and how the faerie are woven into modern times so masterfully.

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