Moonlight and Vines (Newford #6) 
This lovely collection of stories jumped off the shelf at me and I am glad I found it.While I often find that short story collections can be difficult to review, de Lint's beautiful, deft writing makes these stories easy to review as a whole. While I loved some more than others, they were all beautifully written with cunning characterisation of the protagonists, vivid scene setting and the wistful mythic story elements that are so characteristic of a lot of de Lint's writing.I did find that
So I really like Charles de Lint. I really really do. I adored Dreams Underfoot and The Little Country and Yarrow. I love the short story that's in Ravens in the Library.This book is mostly just... enh.In most of his urban fantasy, like Deams Underfoot, de Lint creates magic in unlikely places, lets it come alive. This book forsakes creating magic in order to become extraordinarly preachy about it, increasingly so throughout the book. Stories will just stop having a plot at all so that

WOW!!! I don't like short stories. I really don't. I want something I can sink my teeth into, something that will allow me to escape fully into the world found in the book. Not some short snippet, nothing more than a tease. The only reason I picked this book up is that I enjoy the author and it was cheap...yard-sale cheap! So I set off, fully expecting that, well, that I wouldn't finish it.It did take forever to finish, but not why you may think. Each story captured me. de Lint seems to have the
A group of short stories AND once again this author has seemed to reach into my inner beliefs and talked about what I hold dear and truthful.
A collection of short stories taking place in the fictional urban fantasy world of Newford. Though I really enjoy his novels, de Lint's short stories don't really pull me into his world, it feels more like peeking through a window than walking through a door.
Charles de Lint
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 4.19 | 2950 Users | 90 Reviews

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ISBN: | 0765309173 (ISBN13: 9780765309174) |
Edition Language: | English |
Series: | Newford #6 |
Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (2000) |
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Return to Newford
Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and many others, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see.
In the World Fantasy Award-winning Moonlight and Vines, de Lint returns to this extraordinary city for another volume of stories set there, featuring the intertwined lives of many characters from the novels. Here is enchantment under a streetlamp: the landscape of our lives as only Charles de Lint can show it.
Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Moonheart, Forests of the Heart, The Onion Girl, and many others, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see.
In the World Fantasy Award-winning Moonlight and Vines, de Lint returns to this extraordinary city for another volume of stories set there, featuring the intertwined lives of many characters from the novels. Here is enchantment under a streetlamp: the landscape of our lives as only Charles de Lint can show it.
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Title | : | Moonlight and Vines (Newford #6) |
Author | : | Charles de Lint |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
Published | : | December 27th 2005 by Orb Books (first published December 31st 1998) |
Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Short Stories. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.19 From 2950 Users | 90 ReviewsCommentary Epithetical Books Moonlight and Vines (Newford #6)
For some reason, I didn't much care for this collection of short stories which was disappointing as I have loved some of the other Newford collections (such as Dreams Underfoot, the first one). I guess that I found them all a bit too similar to each other in the gritty & bleak lives of the main characters even though the magic bits were varied. Oh well, I am not giving up on the series but I hope that the next one I read I like better...This lovely collection of stories jumped off the shelf at me and I am glad I found it.While I often find that short story collections can be difficult to review, de Lint's beautiful, deft writing makes these stories easy to review as a whole. While I loved some more than others, they were all beautifully written with cunning characterisation of the protagonists, vivid scene setting and the wistful mythic story elements that are so characteristic of a lot of de Lint's writing.I did find that
So I really like Charles de Lint. I really really do. I adored Dreams Underfoot and The Little Country and Yarrow. I love the short story that's in Ravens in the Library.This book is mostly just... enh.In most of his urban fantasy, like Deams Underfoot, de Lint creates magic in unlikely places, lets it come alive. This book forsakes creating magic in order to become extraordinarly preachy about it, increasingly so throughout the book. Stories will just stop having a plot at all so that

WOW!!! I don't like short stories. I really don't. I want something I can sink my teeth into, something that will allow me to escape fully into the world found in the book. Not some short snippet, nothing more than a tease. The only reason I picked this book up is that I enjoy the author and it was cheap...yard-sale cheap! So I set off, fully expecting that, well, that I wouldn't finish it.It did take forever to finish, but not why you may think. Each story captured me. de Lint seems to have the
A group of short stories AND once again this author has seemed to reach into my inner beliefs and talked about what I hold dear and truthful.
A collection of short stories taking place in the fictional urban fantasy world of Newford. Though I really enjoy his novels, de Lint's short stories don't really pull me into his world, it feels more like peeking through a window than walking through a door.
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