Jessica Shelley
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Katherine Arden:
What books have inspired you the most as a writer? :) (P.S The Bear and the Nightingale is my favourite book of 2017 - possibly one of my favourite books of all time. I cannot stop thinking about it. How did you conjure something so magnificent? Your prose is to die for. I want to eat up every single sentence! Thank you for creating, what seems to me, a masterpiece! Eagerly anticipating TGITT)
Katherine Arden
I am so glad you enjoyed BEAR. To answer your book question:
The Lymond Chronicles and the Niccolo Rising series, by Dorothy Dunnett. If you want a master class in writing--in imagery, in misdirection, in plotting, read these books.
The Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien. Brilliantly realized depiction of life in the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars. Subtle, often hilarious with a bone-dry sense of humor, occasionally heartbreaking, with two brilliantly drawn characters at the center.
Anything by Mary Renault, but maybe start with The King Must Die. She also writes historical fiction (I am a big reader of historical fiction), generally set in the ancient world. The King Must Die is a brilliant and symbolically rich retelling of the myth of Theseus.
There's a lot of books I love, but maybe that's a good start :)
The Lymond Chronicles and the Niccolo Rising series, by Dorothy Dunnett. If you want a master class in writing--in imagery, in misdirection, in plotting, read these books.
The Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brien. Brilliantly realized depiction of life in the British Navy during the Napoleonic wars. Subtle, often hilarious with a bone-dry sense of humor, occasionally heartbreaking, with two brilliantly drawn characters at the center.
Anything by Mary Renault, but maybe start with The King Must Die. She also writes historical fiction (I am a big reader of historical fiction), generally set in the ancient world. The King Must Die is a brilliant and symbolically rich retelling of the myth of Theseus.
There's a lot of books I love, but maybe that's a good start :)
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If someone were interested in learning more about Chernobog and Belobog mythology, what would you recommend? Also I finished the advanced reader of the third book and I have SOOOOO many questions about the relationship between the brothers, but I don't want to ask them yet and give away stuff to people who haven't read it. So...what's a good way to ask those questions?
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Mar 31, 2017 02:39AM