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ISBN: 0441019579 (ISBN13: 9780441019571)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2011), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2011), Endeavour Award Nominee (2011)
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The Bards of Bone Plain Hardcover | Pages: 329 pages
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Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain-which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan's father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king's youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.

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Title:The Bards of Bone Plain
Author:Patricia A. McKillip
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 329 pages
Published:December 7th 2010 by Ace Hardcover (first published October 25th 2010)
Categories:Fantasy. Fiction. Magic. High Fantasy. Science Fiction Fantasy

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In the nation of Beldan, the princess prefers archaeology to balls, and the roads are traversed by steam-powered horseless carriages. After the princess digs up a strange coin, her friend Phelan begins finding other clues that the riddles and songs he's spent his life memorizing might be magical...and that the metaphorical immortal bard Nairn might be real after all. While Phelan searches through dusty records, a new court bard challenges Beldan's bard. Interspersed with all of this are Nairn's

2.5 starsThis was ok.I spent much of the book wondering if there was magic or if the magic was myth - after all, most of it is concerned in the mundane, with Phelan focusing on writing his paper, Princess Beatrice on her archaeological dig, and Zoe on her music. We also follow the story of Nairn, a historical bard, who may or may not have magic. Into this premises waltzes Kelda, a bard.If not for the setting, this felt a little more like magical realism than fantasy. The ending felt a little too

Patricia, I'm going to have to put my foot down: I know you looove the idea of harpers/bards/minstrels, but enough already. One author can only write so many stories about bards before it becomes a little embarrassing. And repetitive. Hey, I still enjoyed your book, but I did skip all those long passages about harp-playing and heartstrings and natural imagery. Sorry. On the bright side, that made the sub-narrative about Nairn go a lot faster, which was good because I liked the main plot line in

14 days to go...I seemed to take forever to finish this, but it was Christmas frenzy rather than lack of enjoyment. Mostly. This is typical McKillip in gorgeous prose, stunning magic, and unusually, a wonderful interweaving of past and present. (I also loved that the book's present was much more modern than her usual fantasy setting.) I loved the way the characters in the present were fascinated by the characters of the past, and how the stories of present and past came closer and closer and

I don't think my brain was in the right place when I started this book. I had such a hard time getting into it, I was bored and it was putting me to sleep (literally, I'd fall asleep after only a few pages).But picking it up again a few days ago, determined to finish, I realized it was actually a very good book. Once I got to the halfway point I was much more interested and felt more connected to it. It was still a bit abstract, I don't really understand what happened to Nairn in the tower, but

In Beldan's history is the story of a bard cursed to an endless life without music--but events in the modern day intimate a truth behind the legend. This takes its central premise of bardic tradition, myth, and music and language as magic, and runs with it as far as it can. The surprising industrialization of the modern setting is a fun counterpoint to the historical underpinnings; the tone is playful and charming, set against an arcane heart--McKillip has a particular knack for transporting,

Patricia McKillip generally writes dreamy, lyrical fairy-tale-like fantasies, and her books have always been a mixed bag for me. I adored The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, The Changeling Sea and Alphabet of Thorn. Despite several tries, I've never been able to make it through the entire Riddle-Master: The Complete Trilogy trilogy. I also DNF'd The Bell at Sealey Head but I'm determined to give it another shot sometime (since I own a copy of it). I tried twice and could not at all get into The