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Sunday, October 2, 2022

Elfed!

Erick Schubach (?) has written a fantasy trilogy about Elves living in New York--and all over the world--and I just finished the first book in the trilogy, and I'm halfway through the second.

He writes good, colloquial prose, steeped in the idiom of millennials and younger readers, with really snappy dialog (which I can't write for love or money).

However, Eric uses the word tenant to mean something like axiom, a sort of basic principle, which puzzled me, until I realized he meant tenet.  I wonder whether tenet is a common enough word for readers to understand what he intends, in the first place, and for them to infer that he means tenet when he writes tenant.  'Basic principle' might server him better. 

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