This is a test of the Windows Live client. I used the “Livejournal” settings, but replaced livejournal.com with dreamwidth.org in the posting url. It seems to be working so far – if you can see this, it definitely did.
The photo? That’s a random shot from Dingling, near Beijing, from my 2006 adventures.
Opening entry of a fantasy trilogy; I think the title was subsequently given to the whole trilogy and this volume was retitled, but I got an older used copy -- mostly because it was the first of the tor.com giveaways and they hadn't quite got the formats down, so I was trying to read a very mangled copy on my Palm and getting frustrated.
Entertaining, not completely run-of-the-mill fantasy; the prose is competent but nothing special. Decent travel reading.
