Any suggestions for other Baba Yaga books?

"Enchantment" by Orson Scott Card. A Sleeping Beauty tale retold in Russian style. Baba Yaga gets a star turn as a witch so evil that even the twentieth century is scared of her. Really a good book.

Any suggestions for other Baba Yaga books?

Peter Morwood's Prince Ivan

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Any suggestions for other Baba Yaga books?

Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente

"Enchantment" by Orson Scott Card. A Sleeping Beauty tale retold in Russian style. Baba Yaga gets a star turn as a witch so evil that even the twentieth century is scared of her. Really a good book.

I'm afraid even Shakespeare-worthy writing would be beyond my ability to enjoy coming from a staunch advocate of criminalizing gay relationships who once stated that he regarded any government that would attempt to recognize same-sex marriage as a "mortal enemy" that he would act to destroy. The only contact I intend to have with Card ever again will be dancing on his grave while waving a rainbow flag.

Eh, he's a competent writer. If the book was good enough, I could see buying it used so he never saw a penny for it.

Card's name on a book gives me the same knee jerk reaction dubya's face or voice does--insta-gag. Can't help it. Don't particularly want to.

I have read and enjoyed some of Card's stuff. But some of the offhand social commentary slipped spoiled any enjoyment I had of the book. As in "I doubt high school kids are having anything like as much sex as people think. Oh, I'm sure there are a few girls who let themselves be used as a mattress but... " Stuff like that is scattered throughout the book. I can tune bad politics in an otherwise good book most of the time, but in this case in intruded too often and too prominently to let me enjoy it. Also it make stuff that otherwise would not ping me stand out. Frinstance he makes a big deal of how taboos vary from culture to culture. OK, great. But has to be more than coincidence that his example is that while the nudity taboo is still strong in our culture, whereas in the particular past culture the story focuses on a man publicly wearing women's clothes in much more shameful than public nudity.

OSC makes me sad, because some of his books were really important to me as a kid/teen before I knew anything about him as a person, and now they're all totally poisoned. The little bits of social/political commentary that seep in at the cracks are just impossible to ignore, and they are RAGE MAKING because he really is just a despicable human being.

ION, I finished listening to Outlander and am about three chapters into Dragonfly in Amber, and I really wish we could get out of this 20th century research project and back to Claire and Jamie and their amazing sex life. It's not that I don't care about the 20th century characters and their stories, but I care more about Claire and Jamie swimming naked in a hot spring.

The only Card that still works for me is Enders Game. I love it so much that I can read it without looking for the squicks. All of his other books not so much but that one has become so important to my brain that no amount of author assholery can overcome its power over me.

I hate that when I recommend it to people I am potentially putting money his way but I have seen it be as life changing for my young students as it was for me and I have to hope the good karma of that outweighs a dollar or two of homophobia money. I do mak sure to stress that all of his other books are not worth it.

It's not that I don't care about the 20th century characters and their stories, but I care more about Claire and Jamie swimming naked in a hot spring.

This sums up a lot of the series for me.