The to-read pile

[fool-ish]

I met Trudi in Manchester during her European tour. First time I'd been to anything like that and I hope I didn't come across all fangirl-like! I'm too old to be a fangirl of anything!

Me too and, yet, here I am, sitting down chatting with you on a fan site (!!) and no doubt sounded the same as you did when I met Robin!

I read Black Magician etc. before Robin Hobb's books. In fact, Trudi's books drew me into the realms of fantasy.

Kind of cross-posting here but I think that anyone who has enjoyed the Black Magician story would also enjoy the Watergivers trilogy. It took me a while to get over the fact that paragraphing was noticably absent, and to finally accept the fact that fantasy does often tend to repeat itself at times but, still, once I connected with a couple of the characters, the story drew me in and I cared about what was going to happen to them (despite the fact that there were no 'surprises' for me).

A land that is controlled by whomever controls the water is something I can easily imagine, particularly when I've often experienced times of water 'lack' due to droughts, busted pipes, ruined pumps or broken windmills...or animals such as horses dying in a house dam, and you only discover it after it has been in there for quite some time and after you have been bathing in it and also washing your clothes and your dishes in it for the same period of time!

I'm not sure what it worse...that or sitting down to a drink of tea or coffee only to discover mid-way through that a frog has wiggled its way into your kettle and there are bits of it floating in your cup...

Ok, yep I'm a fangirl! I didn't realise you'd met Robin! I think I'd be dithering and squeaking like a fangirl of much younger years if I ever met her! My usual sensible, mother of two teenagers persona would go straight out the window! Did I say sensible just then?