{"id":43,"date":"2004-12-20T17:55:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T00:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=43"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:27:01","slug":"thomas-the-rhymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/43","title":{"rendered":"Thomas the Rhymer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas the Rhymer<\/a><\/em> (1990) Ellen Kushner<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I thoroughly enjoyed Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint<\/em>, so I was excited when I saw that Thomas the Rhymer<\/em> was being re-released. <\/p>\n

Thomas the Rhymer<\/em> is one of the books that managed to be precisely what I want to read. The tale is of Thomas the Rhymer, minstrel who falls for the queen of Elfland. The story is told from four different points of view: The longest narrative is from the point of view of Thomas, but the other three are those around Thomas, two of whom are an older couple who take Thomas in. <\/p>\n

Oddly, it is one of those characters, Meg, who I like the best. Something about her view of life seemed to resonate with me. Not that I disliked any of the characters–there was just something about Meg that I particularly liked.<\/p>\n

The writing is beautiful, and the storytelling is wonderful–this was one of those books that I read in two days, because I just didn’t want to put it down (one of the reason I tend not to read novels during the week and during the semester.) The food, the clothes, the atmosphere–usually I hate reading about things like that, but they seemed so important in this book that I didn’t skip those parts like I sometimes do.<\/p>\n

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I only wish that Ellen Kushner had more books out than the three I have already read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thomas the Rhymer (1990) Ellen Kushner I thoroughly enjoyed Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint, so I was excited when I saw that Thomas the Rhymer was being re-released. Thomas the Rhymer is one of the books that managed to be precisely what I want to read. The tale is of Thomas the Rhymer, minstrel who falls for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[2,291],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper","tag-ellen-kushner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3597,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3597","url_meta":{"origin":43,"position":0},"title":"Thomas the Rhymer","author":"Michelle","date":"February 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Thomas the Rhymer (1990) Ellen Kushner Of course I'd read this before. 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