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Is that a sandwich?
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Location: Norfolk, England
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(he/him/his)
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Location: Sunshine Coast, BC
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Obviously, we thought so. I think the world building is consistent, the characters well fleshed out, the action sufficient, and it just gets better through these three first books. Exception is the first part of book two. Necessary, but unpleasant.
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Is that a sandwich?
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The Couch Potato
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Next up, The Gods Were Astronauts by Erich von Daniken, another conspiracy (?) theory regarding ancient aliens. |
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Location: Norfolk, England
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#24667 |
Wizard
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: PDXish
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This series has a very interesting premise, the lead characters are caretakers at a magical creature sanctuary, and the way the world was put together which has an interesting take on some creatures and magic, but I really didn't like the main characters. They were bad enough that I am going to skip the rest of these.
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eBook Enthusiast
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
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I've been away for a few days, and finished a couple of books in that time:
"Divided Allegiance", by Elizabeth Moon. The middle third of the Baen Omnibus "The Deed of Paksannarion". Paks has left Duke Phelan's mercenary company to pursue her dream of training to be a paladin, but things don't go according to plan. One of my very favourite fantasy series. Excellent. "Spider Bones", by Kathy Reichs. In this 13th book in the "Temperance Brennan" series about a forensic anthropolist, Dr Brennan gets involved in a mystery when a man is found dead in a lake in Canada, but the records show that he died 40 years earlier in Vietnam. Very good. |
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eBook Enthusiast
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Location: UK
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Just finished "Oath of Gold", by Elizabeth Moon, the final book in the Baen "The Deed of Paksannarion" omnibus. Wonderful fantasy trilogy. Highly recommended.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Bah, humbug!
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Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA
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I just started Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. It's pretty good go far, but I wasn't at all thrilled by the $16.99 price at Amazon. I even checked my local library first for the ebook, but that was a no-go.
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I just finished Heather Rose Jones' Daughter of Mystery and enjoyed it tremendously. The book is a very low-key fantasy - there's magic but it isn't visible most of the time. The setting is a Ruritania-type European country called Alpennia, and it's a very lived-in world, with its own inheritance conventions, relationships between royalty/nobility/gentry/clergy, and so forth.
The book is from a small press and unfortunately a bit pricey by modern e-bargain hunting standards, but some of you may have obtained it in a recent Storybundle. I plan to pick up the sequel. My favorite read of this month was Adrian Tchaikovsky's Spiderlight. This is a short fantasy quest novel with the standard archetypes - cleric, mage, warrior, thief, archer. And, of course, the giant spider. Tchaikovsky has a background in biology and is known for writing "bugs" well. (His Children of Time recently won the Arthur C. Clarke award for SF, and I need to read it too.) Spiderlight takes D&D tropes in some unexpected directions along the way. |
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Rereading Sherlock Holmes on the back deck on sunny day with a cup a tea. Perfection
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The Couch Potato
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Next I am taking The Portrait of a Lady by Khushwant Singh, a memoir. Last edited by drjd; 10-02-2016 at 04:37 AM. Reason: Italicized.. |
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#24675 |
Almost legible
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Location: In a high desert, CA
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Finished The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. Quite different from the movie, but still entertaining.
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