In the short stories the complexity of the characters and story that he reaches in his novels is not quite achieved. I prefer his novels over the collections of short stories. My favorites are the stories set in or near Newford, but I have yet to find one of his books I didn’t enjoy. Since that time I have been doing just that. I also soon discovered that I wanted to read as much of his work as I could find. I decided to try another of his books and found that he has a quite large bibliography. De Lint is a master at building fascinating characters and weaving magical stories. Someplace to Be Flying was like nothing I had ever read. I quickly fell in love with De Lint’s work. I had never heard of de Lint (in talking to friends I have since discovered that I was not the only one), but based on Watt’s review I gave Someplace to Be Flying a try. What a good decision. I was unfamiliar with the “urban-fantasy” genre. It was a review of Someplace to Be Flying by Charles de Lint. It has been almost three years since I read an article on the Upper Left Edge by Watt Childress.
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