keyan_bowes | Entries tagged with greg frost

What I'm reading these days is books by Our Amazing Clarion Instructors.

I read the Riverside series by Ellen Kushner - ending with The Death of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman. I was pleased to see the credit to fellow-Clarionite Shweta Narayan at the end... And then just as I'd run out of things to read, Greg Frost's latest book, Shadowbridge arrived. I was thinking of saving it for a trip I'm making, but nah. It was just too attractive. A discussion on a private group made it even more enticing.

What all these books have in common, I think, is absolutely gorgeous world-building: Rich, tapestried settings, with dynamic characters who are completely of the place described.

I'm looking forward to more. I had an orgy of Clarion-instructor reading when I first got back. I had signed books by each of our instructors, and it was wonderful to sink into them. A small consolation for the end of Clarion.

I've been regretting that we weren't encouraged to blog about Clarion while we were there. I understand the reasons, but it still seemed sad to have no record on the web of our amazing 6 weeks. Then Jan started writing about Clarion on her blog, and I felt free to follow suit.

So here's my impressions from the first week of Clarion.

Before Clarion:

Even before I came to Clarion, a sense of camaraderie was building up on the newsgroup. I watched in happy amazement as Shweta volunteered her couch to people who needed to spend the night, and her husband to pick people up from the airport. Other arrangements came together – everyone introduced themselves, and offered rides and assistance. The group had a good feeling. In the midst of the chaos of my pre-Clarion life, I began to anticipate the weeks ahead.

There was a minor glitch when an e-mail suggested we’d have to share rooms, which I really wasn’t up for. I frantically started searching Craig’s List for alternatives. Luckily, it was a false alarm. We had individual rooms; we were sharing apartments.

Week 1: Waterfights and Vegetable Love

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Keyan Bowes

Entries tagged with greg frost

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