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From: ecl@cbnewsj.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper)
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Subject: STRANGE TOYS by Patricia Geary
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			STRANGE TOYS by Patricia Geary
	   Bantam Spectra, 1989 (1987c), ISBN 0-553-26872-4, $4.50.
		      A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
		       Copyright 1990 Evelyn C. Leeper

     Sometimes you read a book and it's wonderful and you want to recommend
it, but you find you can't describe it.  This is such a book.

     If I were to say it deals with a young girl growing up; having strange
dreams, visions, and premonitions; meeting with voudon in New Orleans; and
eventually coming to terms with the magical world around her, it would
convey just a small feel of what STRANGE TOYS is like.  I could say it won
the Philip K. Dick Award, and that would tell you something as well.  But
this is one of those books that I find trying to describe similar to trying
"to nail Jell-O to the wall" (as Joe Haldeman once put it).

     All I can say is that you should read it.  (And why wasn't this book
more featured or discussed at Nolacon in New Orleans?  It might have fit in
at the "Ghosts Along the Mississippi" panel, for example.)

Evelyn C. Leeper   |   +1 201-957-2070   |   att!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com