Lucas Blogs About Spinning Silver
Oooh, shiny! So, what's this book's deal? All right, so you like fairy tales, right? I mean, I feel like fairy tales as a genre are too big to fail, I guess. Like whatever I think, they'll keep on going. Well, I guess that's true. Anyway, this book starts with one of the characters explaining how a Rumpelstiltskin-like fairy tale is really about skipping out on your debts. And in a way this novel is an extended fairy tale about paying your debts. That's not all of your synopsis . . . is it? Of course not. Last year, I read Uprooted by Naomi Novik (who you may note is also the author of this novel), and I quite enjoyed it. It's a sort of fairy tale-like story about a young girl who becomes a wizard's apprentice in a somewhat fictionalized version of medieval Poland called Polnya. Meanwhile, Spinning Silver takes place in a somewhat fictionalized version of a later medieval Lithuania called Lithvas (at least, I'm pretty sure it...