Oh, lots! Um...
Forests of the Heart, Memory & Dream, The Onion Girl, Widdershins, all the short story collections (which are really great collections, and very intertwined, and all published together in a 1999 anthology called "The NEwford Stories), Trader, Spirits in the Wires. I may have missed some.
He's also a really nice guy -- I'm on his e-newsletter list and have written him and he wrote very nicely back.
I would look at the publication dates and read them chronologically. He'll take a major character from a SS and they'll be a secondary character in a novel, and vice versa, and in several of the later novels, it's better to have a solid understanding of the characters and past events.
Erin answered first-- I have no idea if read them exactly chronologically -- but close. He is my favorite short story writer --mostly because someone will show up other places later . It helps make his stories feel like a story of someone's life -- not just an incomplete bit.
I am Erin with regard to the squick. I was okay until it became overt, and that was pretty much it for me.
I think the Lily Bard books are Harris' best. Lily is dark but not so bent that you can't identify with her. She had something terrible happen to her and she's coping as well as she can. Her other series, the Aurora Teagarten ones, are definitely cozies and Aurora Teagarten got on my nerves after a few books.
De Lint also wrote a children's book called A Circle of Cats that is just gorgeous.
Hey all, I'm in a heartless phase and sorting through books to give away-- generally, I schlep them up to the library, but I figured if anyone here wanted a crack at them, I'd be more than happy to send.
Because I get so many freebies when I go to conferences, some of them I haven't even read, so I can't vouch for their quality, but like I said, if they sound in the slightest bit interesting, I'll be more than happy to send. Just let me know if you want me to post a list.
book whore
Will fuck for books? There's...no downside there, is there?
I'm going to have to build retaining walls for my TBR pile(s).
I'll do lots of things for books, baby.
I ruthlessly went through my old paperbacks and admitted which ones I would *never* read again. And, okay, I did search for them online and make sure I could replace them used if I ever did want to re-read. And gave them to DH to trade at Ed McKay's. He recycles books, and only keeps pbs in a series he loves or knows he'll re-read. My problem is the still TBR. My eyes have always been bigger than...my eyes, with books. I just can't read fast enough. And I'm plagued by the urge to re-read nearly as often as the urge to read something new.
Thence, the teetering TBR piles. For which there is no shelf space. Shelf space is only for the keepers.
