Pamela Dean
Birth date: January 01, 1953
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The bookshelves of young fantasy are overcrowded, with increasingly fierce competition, but The Secret Country deserves a far better place than it currently has. I remember when I last reread the trilogy, the name "The Dubious Hills" cracked me up. It was such a deliberate naming and went along with...
So this book came to my attention years ago thanks to a certain plagarist. I picked it up a year or two ago and finally sat down to read it. Overall good, it's about a group of cousins who after years of creating and playing in a fantasy world, stumble into it. They meet the characters that they h...
Just couldn't get into this one. Maybe it wasn't the right timing...I'll try it again later in the year.
Who implied Dean was unworthy because she was an english major? Who thought she was boring because they didn’t get her literary witticisms? This reads like she's got something to prove. I’ve yet to see a character so undeservingly bullied as Tina. She’s pre-med, she doesn’t read, she doesn’t have th...
Tam Lin was the first book I read in myReReadathon efforts, and I’m very glad that I did. As you may be able to tell, I’m really interested in retellings of Tam Lin. Dean’s version is one that I’ve read and really, really liked. But unlike Fire and Hemlock or The Perilous Gard, which I’ve read over ...