Söndags-smakbit : Emily Wilde´s map of the Otherlands

Bloggen Betraktelser ger oss på söndagar chansen att publicera ett litet smakprov ur en bok vi läser.
Jag läser Emily Wilde´s map of the Otherlands av Heather Fawcett. Den är en fortsättning på tidigare utkomna Emily Wilde´s Encyclopaedia of faeries
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-”Dr. Farris Rose has served as Department Head for over a decade, taking over from Letitia Barrister, who was abducted by a bogle in the Hebrides and returned several weeks later aged to approximately ninety (she´d been forty-eight when she vanished). Rose is portly with a manelike fringe of white hair framing a bald pate, and of indeterminable age – a common trait among dryadologists – this falling anywhere between fifty- and seventy-something. He is a known eccentric even among the scholarly community, insisting as he does on wearing his clothing inside out at all times.”

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-”I hadn´t any time to dwell upon the shock of it though. Since the faeries seemed so afraid of my cloak as instinct screamed at me to shake the horrifying thing off like a spider – I gathered up the trailing portion, which felt like silken cobwebs, ever so slightly sticky, and hurled it at them. It had the effect I had hoped for, the faeries fled, sobbing desperately at this frightening disruption of their fun.”