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So, I keep seeing Georgette Heyer mentioned as an influence on Swordspoint, and I want to read some of her books, but apparently she wrote, like, fifty, and I have no idea where to start. Does anyone have recommendations for ones that are particularly relevant/well-written?

Any other book recommendations, by the way, are also welcome. And I know, I know, asking for such general recommendations tends to get me few responses, because it's so wide open that it actually stymies thought instead of encouraging it, but I can't think of a genre I want at the moment, other than "good". Um. Epic fantasy with interesting relationships always gets bonus points from me?

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Oh, also

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read P. C. Hodgell? This is a characteristic bit from God Stalk:

"Cleppetty had a minor talent for theurgy, and, with her book of common
household charms, could do a number of handy things such as kindling a
fire with its own ashes, making broken china whole, and raising bread in
half the normal time. At the end of Jame's second active week at the inn,
she suddenly found the book thrust into her hands.

"'Now let's see you try,' the widow said, plopping a lump of unleavened
dough down on the table before her.

"Jame hesitated. Many of her people had such talents if not far greater
ones, but those that did were feared and often compelled to enter the
priesthood. Apprehensively, she recited the charm. It usually took
Cleppetty half an hour to ready her bread for the oven; Jame's rose in
five minutes. When the widow sliced into the baked loaf, however, they
discovered that its sudden expansion had been due to the growth of
rudimentary internal organs.

"That was the end of Jame's apprenticeship in the kitchen."

Re: Oh, also

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha! That is an excellent quote.

I haven't read her yet, but this book is actually already on my Christmas list, so hey, I'll just have to move it up.