Same Story, Different Versions (and all are true)

Originally posted at LiveJournal on Mar. 22, 2012 EDIT 04-24-12:   EOTW Challenge progress:  2515 pages    2464 pages .   I discussed it with the  Booksluts , and they said I can use  Whalesinger  as long as I don't count the first 51 pages.  Also, I'm including the Afterword to  Isabel of the Whales . See my reviews of  Whalesinger  (212 pages) and  Isabel of the Whales  (181 pages*) at  Postcards .                              * That's if you count the author's Afterword to  Isabel of the Whales .  If the challenge-makers say nay, then the story itself is 173 pages, and my total page count is 2507.  Also, I had started  Whalesinger  years ago, but put it down after the first four chapters (51 pages).  Depending on what the challenge-makers say, I may have to not count the book, or at least start...

Originally posted at LiveJournal on August 27, 2011 During my last visit to HalfPrice Books, I was wandering through the SF/Fantasy section when I saw this: Honestly, though I'm a huge fantasy reader, I've never been interested in any of the books I've seen in the genre SF/F section.  But the front cover image and the back cover summary set off my  Ocean Girl  radar, and, after all, it was only about $3. The nutshell:   A pair of Time Agents is studying a mostly-ocean planet which was once home to a feudal civilization, but now seems devoid of any intelligent life.  Intending only to view the past through a time portal, the agents - along with a young Polynesian woman and her two dolphins, with whom she has a telepathic bond - are accidentally sucked through and caught in the middle of a potentially cataclysmic war.  It was a fun read overall, though it took a bit of suspension-of-disbelief for certain concepts or plot points. The good points...