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Hey,

So I polished off two more books in quick succession.

The first was Uncle Cleans Up by J.P. Martin. This is the second volume of the Uncle series of books (I reviewed the first book here). It's more of Uncle, the fabulously wealthy elephant in a purple dressing gown roaming about his rambling castle of Homeward and his attempts to fend off the evil (or at least very naughty) plots of the Badger Hateman and the rest of the Badfort crowd.

It's a rambling sort of book that exists mostly to watch the imagination of the author at work. Certainly it's a great bedtime story for younger kids.

Then it was on to The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker. This was a really nice little fantasy novel. You've got an assassin named Smith who's on the run from a particularly successful career and trying to take up a better life. His cousin gets him a job as a caravan master. His caravan (really more of a clockwork train) has the usual assortment of odd characters and cargoes and a simple trip down to the sea brings up many complications. Smith gives up the caravan business for the hotel management game but even here life can get very difficult. Finally, Smith helps a wealthy patron rescue his sister and stop a war.

It was a very good book, I stayed up way too late to finish reading it.

later
Tom

(no subject)

Hey,

So I polished off two more books in quick succession.

The first was Uncle Cleans Up by J.P. Martin. This is the second volume of the Uncle series of books (I reviewed the first book here). It's more of Uncle, the fabulously wealthy elephant in a purple dressing gown roaming about his rambling castle of Homeward and his attempts to fend off the evil (or at least very naughty) plots of the Badger Hateman and the rest of the Badfort crowd.

It's a rambling sort of book that exists mostly to watch the imagination of the author at work. Certainly it's a great bedtime story for younger kids.

Then it was on to The Anvil of the World by Kage Baker. This was a really nice little fantasy novel. You've got an assassin named Smith who's on the run from a particularly successful career and trying to take up a better life. His cousin gets him a job as a caravan master. His caravan (really more of a clockwork train) has the usual assortment of odd characters and cargoes and a simple trip down to the sea brings up many complications. Smith gives up the caravan business for the hotel management game but even here life can get very difficult. Finally, Smith helps a wealthy patron rescue his sister and stop a war.

It was a very good book, I stayed up way too late to finish reading it.

later
Tom