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I'd like to think I'm catching up, but instead I think I'm just part way through far too many books.

( Elizabeth Bear, Carnival. )

Mary Gentle - Ilario: The Lion's Eye

And, speaking of Dunnett. Not for the emotional obliquity – Ilario is blunt and unsubtle, but capable of learning and change to a touching degree – but for the enthusiastic romp round the Mediterranean, through merchant houses and slave markets, shadowed cemeteries and Venetian canals. I loved this; it was exactly what I wanted to read, without expecting it at all, and I lost a Sunday to it when there were really a rather large number of things I should have been doing instead.

( Mary Gentle, Ilario: The Lion’s Eye. )