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Titles: The Aeronaut’s Windlass (1), Warriorborn (1.5), The Olympian Affair (2)Author: Jim ButcherPublication Dates: Sep. 2015, Sep. 2023, Nov. 2023 I have been a fan of Jim Butcher for a while. I love Dresden Files and the Codex Alera and I have waited eight freaking years for the second book in the Cinder Spire series.
Keltin and I love finding bookshops when we travel and we actually found a decent number of used bookshops in Valencia. Only one issue – I don’t know enough Spanish to read it. This presented an issue when it came to my love of finding regional literature. That being said, I did find something wonderful
Keltin and I decided to do National Novel Writing Month this year. This is the first time that either of us have done this challenge. 50,000 words in a month, a tall order. But that’s only 1,667 words per day. The daily word count is easy in theory then you have to throw in a
Title: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayAuthor: Michael ChabonPublication Date: 2000Publishing House: Picador Keltin has been after me to read this book for a while and now I know why. There are a lot of good books out there and this one is well… amazing. The story follows Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay from
Title: Furies of CalderonAuthor: Jim ButcherPublication Date: 2004Publishing House: Ace Books As you can possibly tell from this post, I enjoy reading books by Jim Butcher. Besides the Dresden Files he has written The Codex Alera and started another sort of steampunkish with ships series but we will discuss that one in another post. The
I don’t do tags very often but I came across this one from Bookwormmuse and I had to participate because Tolkien, no other reason is needed. HOW DID YOUR MIDDLE EARTH JOURNEY BEGIN? My wonderful step-mom actually started reading The Hobbit to my sister and I when we were little. I remember loving the story then,
Title: The Far FieldAuthor: Madhuri VijayPublication Date: 2019Publishing House: Grove Press The Far Field is my December 2018 book from Book of the Month. I know, I’m a bit behind on my reading. This book took me a while to get through, that’s not because it is a bad book though, its actually a very well written book but
I believe that I have discussed the it before on this blog but I love Recycled Books in Denton, Texas. Three stories and a maze of shelves. Perfect for the reader that likes to get lost among the books. Once a year Recycled has their pre-inventory sales. Everything is 20% off; I don’t normally make
Title: The Boneless MerciesAuthor: April Genevieve TucholkePublication Date: 2018Publishing House: Farrar Straus Giroux This book was described to me as a gender-flipped version of Beowulf. I happen to love that epic. That description of this book though is not sufficient because this story is so much more. If you do go into this story looking for Beowulf
Title: The Darkest Part of the ForestAuthor: Holly BlackPublication Date: 2015Publishing House: Hachette Book Group I have a good friend that is a librarian and during one of her visits over the summer we ended up at a used book store – not an uncommon occurrence for us. One of the books that she suggested and was The Darkest Part of the Forest. This Holly
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