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Happy Holidays, everyone!
I want to tell you about some of my favorite books for this year. (Yes, I know I'm running a bit late! I'm still pleading 4 year old + 1 year old combo. Ask me next year what my excuse is...)
Still, for those of you (like me) running late on your holiday shopping, let's start with some books I loved that I ended up writing "blurbs" for (you know, those little recommendations on the backs of bookjackets.)
 Beth Cato, The Clockwork Dagger. Airships, assassins, pulp writers, and an independent, appealing heroine: THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER is an exciting debut full of mysterious magic, forbidden romance, and adventure at 5,000 feet.
 A. M. Dellamonica, Child of a Hidden Sea. A delightful portal fantasy that feels completely fresh. I loved watching the heroine geek out over shells and sea-life to try to solve the puzzle of Stormwrack's history. CANNOT WAIT for the sequel.
 Shannon Page and Jay Lake, Our Lady of the Islands. A gorgeous tale of courage and friendship, with appealing charactersand an epic sweep.
Usually I read a hundred books and this year I read thirty four. So my recommendations are a little skimpy this time. Still, let me give you two more recommendations for non-SF books.
 Kate Beaton, Hark, A Vagrant - this came out a couple years back, but it's such a lovely collection of history and literature comics. (with a few batman comics thrown in for good measure!) My artsy grandmother would have really liked many of the ones in here, I think.
 Meredith Willson, But He Doesn't Know the Territory. - I know, I know, I'm a sucker for theatre memoirs. This is from 1959 and it doubles as a writing memoir - it's Willson's account of putting together The Music Man. He talks in there about the rhythm of the famous opening song (You Gotta Know the Territory) and how it was really a new idea to write it like the patter of the salesman. Fascinating stuff.
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