Re: 2025 Hugo Awards Homework - The Novels

In article <XnsB2EF554D2283Ammikedacomcastnet@85.12.62.254>,
 Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com> wrote:

Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote in
news:robertaw-E0239D.21382429052025@news.individual.net:
 

I looked at the 2025 Hugo Award finalists and noticed that I was
unfamiliar with just about all of them. So I downloaded the some
of the packet, category by category.
 

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(SNIP!!)

 
I did not read _Someone You can Build a Nest in_ by John
Wiswell, because a description that I read of it convinced me
that it was horror and I try to avoid horror. I had already read
_A Sorceress Comes to Call_ by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon).
BTW, this was the only one of the 24 fiction nominees that I had
already read.
 

 
Is T. Kingfisher an exception to your "try to avoid horror" policy or did it
just not feel like horror genre to you?

I read it last year because somebody claimed that it was a take on the
"Goose Girl" story from the Grimm Brothers collection. IMHO, it didn't
look that much like "Goose Girl" (other than the girl being bullied).

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