Hippoi Athanatoi
- Obsessing About the Lymond Chronicles
- Written on the Dark
- The Wars of Light and Shadow
- More Belated Book Talk
- What I Read in 2023
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.
Obsessing About the Lymond ChroniclesI now have two unfinished book posts that have been sitting around for over a year and here I am writing a third instead. This time, I blame Dorothy Dunnett. I had not really planned a reread of the Lymond Chronicles, but then I started and well, you know how it goes.
If you have not read the…
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Photos of us, our dogs and assorted adventures.
Pat Cadigan, Sydney Duncan, and Andy Duncan (who has a wonderful South Carolinian accent) waiting for other authors to appear. George was scheduled for it originally, but had to bow out. Sean McMullen appears to have cancelled at the last minute, as Pat Cadigan can be seen taking a hand at changing the sign for his replacement, Ellen "Nebula Award Winner" Klages. This was the funniest program event we went to during the convention.
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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…