Book Recommendation Requests > Amanda Abrams’s Request

he said: " This might or might not be the sort of thing you're looking for, but it's a recent "lit-fic" novel I really enjoyed. This might or might not be the sort of thing you're looking for, but it's a recent "lit-fic" novel I really enjoyed. ...more "

he said: " This is fantasy, so it might be outside your areas of interest, but it and other works by the same author use a very beautiful writing style reminiscent both of early fantasy (Tolkien, Lewis, Eddison) and of the fairy/folktales and myths that early fantasy drew upon. A lot of modern fantasy tries to evoke this kind of style but fails miserably; this author is one of very few I've seen who can pull it off. This is fantasy, so it might be outside your areas of interest, but it and other works by the same author use a very beautiful writing style reminiscent both of early fantasy (Tolkien, Lewis, Eddison) and of the fairy/folktales and myths that early fantasy drew upon. A lot of modern fantasy tries to evoke this kind of style but fails miserably; this author is one of very few I've seen who can pull it off. ...more "