{"id":3550,"date":"2013-02-10T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T13:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2021-05-30T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T00:29:04","slug":"companions-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3550","title":{"rendered":"Companions to the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007XIIXE2\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B007XIIXE2&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Companions to the Moon<\/a><\/em> (2007) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/delint.php\">Charles de Lint<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007XIIXE2\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B007XIIXE2&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/companions-t-the-moon.jpg?resize=196%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Companions to the Moon\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/companions-t-the-moon.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/companions-t-the-moon.jpg?w=260&amp;ssl=1 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>This is a short story that&#8217;s not connected to Newford&#8211;just the story of a woman who thinks her boyfriend is cheating on her, and what she discovers.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is Charles de Lint, so you never expect what she discovers.<\/p>\n<p>Charles de Lint never fails to amaze me. <\/p>\n<p>He can take 24 pages in that short span create characters and a world, and tell a story that draws you in.<\/p>\n<p>When I read short stories by other authors, I can&#8217;t help but compare them to Charles de Lint, and I am often disappointed when they fall short.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, when I find an author who can replicate this ability, I immediately fall in love.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Triskell Press<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/14760858\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companions to the Moon (2007) Charles de Lint This is a short story that&#8217;s not connected to Newford&#8211;just the story of a woman who thinks her boyfriend is cheating on her, and what she discovers. Of course, this is Charles de Lint, so you never expect what she discovers. Charles de Lint never fails to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2,35,34],"tags":[71,161],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-fantasy","category-short-story","category-urban-fantasy","tag-charles-de-lint","tag-newford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-Vg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3283,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3283","url_meta":{"origin":3550,"position":0},"title":"The Very Best of Charles de Lint","author":"Michelle","date":"November 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Very Best of Charles de Lint (2010) Charles de Lint I love Charles de Lint. I believe I have all of his mass published story anthologies, and several of the smaller press novellas, so I'd read most of the stories in this collection. Doesn't matter. I can read his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Very-Best-of-Charles-de-Lint.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":295,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/295","url_meta":{"origin":3550,"position":1},"title":"Wolf Moon","author":"Michelle","date":"August 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Wolf Moon (1988) Charles de Lint Wolf Moon is one of Charles de Lint's earlier books. It's quite short--only 245 pages. In tone, it reminds me very much of The Harp of the Grey Rose. A fantasy world that similar to, but not quite the same as, ours. 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There is nothing he has written that I have not liked, and most of what he has written I really love. Despite that, and despite buying this book over\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fantasy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/01\/Onion-Girl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":106,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/106","url_meta":{"origin":3550,"position":4},"title":"The Blue Girl","author":"Michelle","date":"August 7, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Blue Girl (2004) Charles de Lint I love Charles de Lint. There is nothing he has written that I have read that I have not liked, and most of what he writes I absolutely love. Yet for some reason I was hesitant to read this book. Probably because the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/Blue-Girl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/35","url_meta":{"origin":3550,"position":5},"title":"Waifs and Strays","author":"Michelle","date":"July 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Waifs and Strays (2002) Charles de Lint Charles de Lint's latest short story collection is not as much for young adults as it is about young adults. As I recognized several titles in this collection from other collections, I hadn't been in a hurry to get this collection. That was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthology","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/anthology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/Waifs-and-Strays.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}