This morning I finished the fifth and latest installment in Butcher’s Codex Alera series, Princeps’ Fury. I have been a fan of them since picking them up from the library earlier this year. I now own 1 to 4 in paperback, all ready for me to read through again.
Back to Princeps’ Fury: it was both [...]
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Reaction: Princeps’ Fury by Jim Butcher
Posted in reading, review, tagged codex alera, epic fantasy, fantasy, jim butcher, princep's fury on Thursday 4 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The High Lord & the end-ish of NaNo.
Posted in fantasy, pondersome riff, review, tagged characterization, fantasy, pacing, plot, robin hobb, the black magician trilogy, the high lord, third person narration, trudi canavan on Tuesday 25 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished The High Lord by Trudi Canavan, instead of writing (more) for NaNoWriMo. I’m down to the wire and a little behind for my early deadline but I could not put this book down. Absolutely could not. I decided I’d read a chapter or two earlier (I’d been doing that with the book [...]
House of Many Ways
Posted in reading, review, tagged children's books, chrestomanci, dalemark, dalemark quartet, diana wynne jones, fantasy, howl's moving castle, protagonists who make mistakes, thwwwp, young adult literature on Tuesday 28 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I finished House of Many Ways, Diana Wynne Jones’s most recent book and the third book set in the world of Howl’s Moving Castle after Castle in the Air. I read both Howl’s and Castle in college, and I am a huge fan of the Miyazaki film adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle, despite [...]
Dalemark
Posted in fantasy, reading, review, tagged characterization, children's books, dalemark, dalemark quartet, diana wynne jones, epic fantasy, fantasy, young adult literature on Saturday 25 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished The Crown of Dalemark, the fourth and final book of the Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones. I think this is going to be one of those books — series — I’ll need to re-read. Gosh, add these books to the to-buy list! I read the first two books — Cart and [...]
Reading the day away hurts the brain.
Posted in criticism, reading, review, tagged breaking dawn, deerskin, first person narration, frodo, lord of the rings, love, robin hobb, robin mckinley, spoilers, stephenie meyer, third person narration, thwwwp, twilight saga, vampires on Tuesday 16 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished Breaking Dawn. Gasp. I’m still on hold for it from the library… which I should go cancel. My friend lent me her friend’s copy — haha — and so I devoured that between last night and this morning (while managing, might I add, to get a full night’s sleep). I’ve got an [...]
The end of my summer reading…
Posted in reading, review, tagged thwwwp, urban fantasy, epic fantasy, romance novels, kresley cole, sherrilyn kenyon, sherwood smith, true blood, hbo, acheron on Tuesday 9 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since I’ve really written and there’s no simple explanation for it. I just haven’t remembered. But that’s not to say that things haven’t been happening or I haven’t been reading. Actually in the intervening time between since when I last really wrote and now I finished King’s Shield, I read the [...]
The Dark Knight & vacation
Posted in review, tagged the dark knight on Tuesday 22 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Bryan had a crisis at work (several, in fact) so he’s on vacation. He’s been on vacation since last Wednesday and will be through this weekend. He needs the sleep and relaxation time. We’ve actually been seeing so much of each other it’s almost borderline obnoxious, in a good way. I’m glad he’s taking [...]
The Dresden Files & such
Posted in reading, review, tagged audiobooks, codex alera, epic fantasy, fantasy, harry dresden, jim butcher, robin mckinley, thwwwp, urban fantasy on Wednesday 2 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I’ve been busy. So sue me.
I’m not about to give you the recap from March to July, so deal with it. Punk.
MOVING ON.
One of the things that’s kept me occupied lately are the Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcher. I’d incidentally run into them so many times while perusing Amazon.com in addition to having [...]
Television update!
Posted in criticism, review, tagged abc, cbs, heroes, i am legend, james mcavoy, mad men, moonlight, nbc, pushing daisies, sweeney todd, tv, vampires on Friday 14 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been posting a lot lately, haven’t I? Don’t answer that.
I figured now that it’s nearing the “mid-season” break of television shows (which might turn out to be the season finales of a lot of shows because of the writer’s strike), and also considering that the Golden Globe nominations came out yesterday, it’s time for [...]
Dragonhaven
Posted in fantasy, reading, review, tagged dragon, fantasy, first person narration, happy, robin mckinley, thwwwp on Thursday 13 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I finished Dragonhaven this morning. I started it last night instead of being a good girl and writing… and in the usual McKinley fashion I was sucked in. It says a lot when I read a book in the morning rather than doing something like, well, sleeping. (I started it last night, went to bed, [...]
