Hippoi Athanatoi
- Written on the Dark
- The Wars of Light and Shadow
- More Belated Book Talk
- What I Read in 2023
- All the Seas of the World
Guess who started this post a couple of months ago and didn’t finish until today? While, of course, reading even more that I want to review in yet another future post. ;)
My reading pace for 2024 looked good at the start, but then it slowed down markedly as I filled my schedule with way too many dog trainings and dog shows. Those re-reads I didn’t finish last year are still hanging around, though I certainly made room in my schedule for Mark Lawrence’s The Book that Broke the World, which will get its own post eventually. I also ended up picking up a Kindle reader when my Surface Go decided to die on me, so I’ve had a bit of an adjustment period. Its definitely much nicer to read on, though its not great for browsing for new books.
Some of the books I want to comment on I finished before the end of last year, but I might as well get properly caught up. I don’t remember the precise order, but lets start with The Tainted Cup, first in a new series by Robert Jackson Bennett.
Bennett…
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Idle ramblings about life, dog training, riding and much more.
Written on the DarkWritten on the Dark, the new novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, strikes me as a meditation on narratives—how we shape the stories of our lives, and how, if we are important enough or are caught up in significant events, others may reshape them.
This is hardly new territory for Kay; over the course of his…
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Photos of us, our dogs and assorted adventures.
Waiting in the ring during the individual evaluation for the juniors.
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Logs of MUSH roleplay from various games.A Hunt Goes AwryPrince Marence is out hunting with his court when a messenger arrives with news of his envoy to the rebellious Lady Yronwood.
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Reviews of books and other media.All the Seas of the World
In All the Seas of the World, Kay returns once more to his most frequently revisited alternate history setting, where the stories often touch upon the tensions between the followers of the three major religions: the Asharites, the Jaddites and the Kindath. I have not consciously reflected on this…