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 For Folks who don't get over to my Facebook page:

Patricia McKillip won the Mythopoeic Society award for adult fantasy this year. I love her work--I think she is the best writer of fairy-tale style fantasy in the business. She won for Kingfisher, which I liked very much, but my "reread McKillip" impulse took me instead to The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. It's been a while since I read it, so I didn't remember much, just that I liked it and that it had left me with that feeling like I'd just walked out of a dream. Her books hit you that way.

Forgotten Beasts, like most of her books really, is a love story. It is about a young girl who lives alone on a mountain with the beasts she more or less controls by magic. A man brings a baby out of war and leaves him for her to raise. Knowing nothing about raising children, Sybel enlists the aid of a neighbor down the mountain side. She has never known love herself but, beginning with the child, she begins to learn all the many kinds of love that can trip her up or save her from herself. 

The book is satisfying start to finish. Makes me glad she is still winning prizes!