Comments on: War for the Oaks, Emma Bull https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/27/war-for-the-oaks-emma-bull/ before I read the middle Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:59:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/27/war-for-the-oaks-emma-bull/#comment-13161 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:59:10 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=689#comment-13161 In reply to Tinker.

Tam Lin is one of my guilty pleasure reads! I’ve never enjoyed any of Pamela Dean’s other books nearly as much as I did Tam Lin. Have you read Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock? It’s by far the best retelling of Tam Lin I’ve ever read.

]]> By: Tinker https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/27/war-for-the-oaks-emma-bull/#comment-13160 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:21:20 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=689#comment-13160 Tam Lin? I don’t THINK so! Either that or it was a much different version from the ones I have read.

Have you read Pamela Dean’s version of Tam Lin? A very good job, it sneaks up on you, starting off as a harmless tale of a girl going off to college. Then you begin to see magic going on in the background, Shakespeare’s actors come back to life, and you begin to realize its more than just a tale.

]]> By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/27/war-for-the-oaks-emma-bull/#comment-13159 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:28:58 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=689#comment-13159 It’s fun! I used to read a lot more not-very-good fantasy in my youth, and although I don’t want a lot of it at once, it can be nice to have a little bit. In retrospect, a lot of the books I read were probably more tongue-in-cheek than I thought they were, when I was in seventh grade.

]]> By: Nymeth https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/27/war-for-the-oaks-emma-bull/#comment-13158 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:23:48 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=689#comment-13158 I was going to say “How did I miss that this was a retelling of Tam Lim?”, but nevermind 😛 It does sound lovely anyway, though.

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