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 [...]
NaNoWriMo, Day 14
Posted in motivation / productivity, reading, writing, tagged fantasy, nanowrimo, the black magician trilogy, the high lord, the magicians' guild, the novice, thwwwp, trudi canavan, writing on Friday 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My NaNo novel is an unwieldy beast. And by that I mean it’s going well but its plot can easily go in four directions and I’m conflicted but only really conflicted because I am sort of getting to the point of procrastination. I KNOW, it’s day 14, I can’t afford that. But even so. I’m [...]
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 [...]
The low-brow and high-brow of fantasy books… and movies.
Posted in criticism, ranty rant, tagged epic fantasy, fantasy, legend of the seeker, limyaael, movies, robert jordan, terry goodkind, the eye of the world, true blood, tv, twilight saga, wizard's first rule, writing on Wednesday 22 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just discovered Limyaael’s rants, thanks to a friend’s suggestion, and I’ve read through a ton of them today. I’m so much more random than she is in my blog posts and rants (and exponentially more prone to tangents), but it’s absolutely refreshing to read someone well-read, thoughtful, and full of really well-substantiated complaints, rather [...]
Romance novels & Twilight ranting
Posted in criticism, ranty rant, reading, tagged vampires, writing, fantasy, stephenie meyer, YA fantasy, twilight saga, romance novels, kresley cole, sherrilyn kenyon, teenagers, emo, werewolves on Tuesday 22 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve read three books lately: Walk on the Wild Side by Christine Warren, and A Hunger Like No Other and No Rest For the Wicked by Kresley Cole. (The titles. I KNOW. Oy.) They’re all three legitimate romance novels and I’m a bit embarrassed to say I really enjoyed them. You get past the gratuitous [...]
I weep! Okay, not really. But still.
Posted in random, tagged dog, dream, fantasy, jim butcher, parents, puppy, the dresden files on Wednesday 9 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just read today that The Dresden Files the TV show starring Paul Blackthorne was officially cancelled. Yes, I’m behind the times, but when is this new? Having read about it on Jim Butcher’s website, I suppose I’m not tearing up. Hell, I haven’t even seen a single episode yet. But still. I don’t like [...]
News about movies & milk
Posted in drink, fantasy, reading, tagged fantasy, hancock, harry dresden, harry potter, jim butcher, milk, the dark knight, trader joe's, urban fantasy on Monday 7 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of things. First, this last weekend was spent with Bryan’s family and we had a lot of fun. Nice, relaxing. Fun.
Next: the first actual review, rather than article, about The Dark Knight I’ve found so far. I’m so excited!
And pertaining to my last entry, Will Smith did once again top the box office despite [...]
FYI, Breaking Dawn will be huge. In case you were as out-of-the-loop as I was.
Posted in fantasy, tagged fantasy, library, stephanie meyer, twilight saga, vampires on Wednesday 2 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was thinking today that a whole bunch of series I’ve been reading have new installments coming out (isn’t that always the case) and I have been trying to keep track so I know roughly when to put in a request with the library. Usually the library doesn’t get a copy of the book until [...]
