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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: The Hum and the Shiver notes Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:41:03 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 40 Message-ID: <vd5ghf$k2fp$3@dont-email.me> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:41:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="20f11cd33c88a15c90fad98e2c15dca8"; logging-data="657913"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rGNk2TAXTlfAHAAxRu4fW" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/NNKeWGErxFSQeMOqLDZeuYsBKw= Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2605 Hi again. The Hum and the Shiver by Alex Bledsoe is one of a few novels dealing with a hidden people in the Southern mountains. I believe there two more novels in this series. I had read this before and enjoyed re-reading it after a couple of years. This is a theme in Speculative Fiction a hidden folk either benign or maleficent but not like the the incoming Europeans. The Tufa is what this particular group are called and they are ruled by song. Generally they are black-haired with ivory skin, in their public presentations. They are not Christian nor do Christian churches thrive in their territories. The story begins as one who has left the area and been wounded in the Iraqi war, returns as a hero promoted by the Military a woman rescued after living through a IED explosion killing 10 jihadis and been raped by her captors Her Iraqi doctor having done all he could for her wounds was killed along with hospital staff by US Marines before the doctor could arrange a peaceful transfer back to US care. So from the ludicrous parade watched mostly by the Press to the end of the book when she extirpates a bad apple, the Tufa and their secrets are uncovered for us. I thought it was worth the read but audience vary and I am quite an easy one. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum_and_the_Shiver> As I read the discription I recall a boy in my youth late 20 who had black hair and ivory skin. Later he had an accident in a jeep and ended up with no memory of the time before the accident. bliss - wishing all a peaceful sleep... -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com