Because when it's not, I often have a hard time disentangling it from Urban Fantasy. The one Nalo Hopkinson I've read is closer to Charles de Lint than to GGM. My understanding was that the events of Magic Realism are perfectly mundane: the fantastic is how they *look* to the people in the book. Ergo, The Life of Pi is MR to me but Robertson Davies is not; and the jury is still out on Little, Big. Also must reread my Randolph Stows, though anything that happens in Australia seems magic by definition.
Taxonomy is not discussion, but it *is* fun
Because when it's not, I often have a hard time disentangling it from Urban Fantasy. The one Nalo Hopkinson I've read is closer to Charles de Lint than to GGM. My understanding was that the events of Magic Realism are perfectly mundane: the fantastic is how they *look* to the people in the book. Ergo, The Life of Pi is MR to me but Robertson Davies is not; and the jury is still out on Little, Big. Also must reread my Randolph Stows, though anything that happens in Australia seems magic by definition.
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Alas, Wednesday
One oddity of this round of weight loss is that my feet have shrunk. Right foot sloshes about in its boot, birks fall off even with socks. I keep…
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Another country
'But still there's the Met.' There is always the Met, thank god, and always with
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