Memory and Dream

So Charles De Lint has just been here the entire time, and is just good at everything? So this is one of the best stand alone novels I have ever read. This is an urban fantasy novel set in a made up city somewhere vaguely around the Canadian/US border. It starts with a women getting a letter that ha......more

I don’t pay much attention to blurbs on book covers. The worst one are when the publisher has cherry-picked a list of adjectives from someone’s review, as if hearing that the New York Times thought a book is “inspiring, powerful, thought-provoking” is going to make me want to read it any more or les......more

I hadn't expected this to be this amazing, but I am now reading more de Lint immediately.......more

This story had a deep impact on me. It opens with an innocent sketch in a town square; it soon becomes a deeply engaging study of the act of creation and the mind of an artist. If I took out my editor’s pencil, I’d only be able to mark one paragraph in the entire book, where a minor character is gran......more

Despite the interesting concept and excellent (tense, satisfying and with a good twist) ending, parts of this book really seemed to drag. I can't specifically point at any elements that weren't necessary (for establishing characters, setting up the plot and providing clues for the twist at the end),......more