Where are you in Fantasyland? October, 2020

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Where are you in Fantasyland? October, 2020

1seitherin
okt 4, 2020, 1:17 pm

2Sakerfalcon
Redigerat: okt 5, 2020, 5:48 am

I'm visiting the city of Merovingen during the Festival moon.

3seitherin
okt 5, 2020, 9:30 am

Added Peace Talks by Jim Butcher to my already crowded rotation.

4curioussquared
okt 5, 2020, 1:12 pm

I'm back in Valdemar in Spy, Spy Again.

5seitherin
okt 8, 2020, 8:08 am

Finished Peace Talks by Jim Butcher. Comfort read. Added Battle Ground to my rotation (which isn't really rotating at the moment.)

6Jenson_AKA_DL
okt 8, 2020, 10:30 am

Just left Chicago after finishing Battle Ground last night. Now somewhere is England (I think) reading a YA historical novel called The Hummingbird Dagger.

7Narilka
okt 8, 2020, 8:45 pm

I'm in Brackenford at The Hangman's Pond.

8Jarandel
okt 9, 2020, 2:32 pm

I've been in the United Kingdom and in Italy with romantic poets in The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers.

9Unreachableshelf
okt 10, 2020, 2:19 pm

I'm in the UK in The Constant Rabbit.

10Niko
okt 10, 2020, 6:20 pm

In Astreiant, solving what looks to be a murder mystery, in Point of Dreams.

11Carnophile
okt 10, 2020, 10:30 pm

In an infinite museum of statues whose basement is an ocean, with Piranesi.

This is quite good, but not so good that I understand why it took Susanna Clarke 15 years to write it.

12Unreachableshelf
okt 15, 2020, 4:04 pm

I'm just starting The Once and Future Witches.

13rshart3
Redigerat: okt 20, 2020, 1:31 pm

Det här meddelandet har tagits bort av dess författare.

14rshart3
okt 16, 2020, 10:58 pm

In Chicago with Harry Dresden & Co. in Peace Talks. Of course the plot is thickening already...

15seitherin
okt 17, 2020, 9:42 am

Finished Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold. Liked it but not quite as much as the first book.

16seitherin
okt 18, 2020, 2:36 pm

Finished Battle Ground by Jim Butcher. Brutal.

17Crypto-Willobie
okt 21, 2020, 7:10 am

>11 Carnophile:
I read that she was battling severe health problems during much of that time. I'm looking forward to this one.

Recently I've been in Fantastica with Bastian Balthasar Bux.

18Cecrow
okt 21, 2020, 8:55 am

>17 Crypto-Willobie:, Fantastica is worth a return trip for me, someday. If a series of "fantasy classics" was pulled together, The Neverending Story had better be on it.

19Julie_in_the_Library
okt 21, 2020, 11:18 am

>16 seitherin: When you say 'brutal,' do you mean 'bad' or do you mean 'emotionally brutal'? I've gotten way behind on The Dresden Files, and I keep meaning to catch back up, but I don't know if I'm going to be up for 'emotionally brutal' anytime soon. : )

20seitherin
okt 21, 2020, 12:11 pm

>19 Julie_in_the_Library: Emotionally brutal.

21Julie_in_the_Library
okt 21, 2020, 12:13 pm

>20 seitherin: ooh, boy. I kind of thought so. I'll be putting that one off for the foreseeable future then. Thanks.

22Carnophile
okt 21, 2020, 6:35 pm

>17 Crypto-Willobie: I read that she was battling severe health problems

I hope she's OK. Anyway, good novel.

23drmamm
okt 22, 2020, 10:03 pm

Just finished Salvation Lost, #2 in the latest Peter F Hamilton series. It's...good. A decent read. Not his best but definitely not a waste of my time. He explores a lot of interesting areas with regard to non-binary humans and as usual (in between page-long descriptions of clothing) brings out more cool gadgets and apocalyptic weapons than James Bond's Q. The 3rd and final installment gets released next month, so I will switch to non-fiction for a palate cleanser until then.

24Kanarthi
okt 23, 2020, 12:29 am

I've mostly been reading other genres, but I did read Flame of Sevenwaters after skipping the two books in the series prior to it. If that book is any indication, I didn't miss much. The farther Juliet Marillier goes from folk tale inspirations, the more I dislike her plots.

In sci-fi land, I'm about to check out The Sparrow.

25rshart3
okt 25, 2020, 10:19 pm

As Halloween reading, I knocked off "The Great God Pan" (short story by Arthur Machen ), and just re-read Burn Witch Burn by Abraham Merritt. I've read it several times over the years, and still think it's one of the best witch stories ever written, despite the sometimes creaky pulp-era writing. The concept, the imagery, and the character of Madame Mandilip, are all fantastic.

Oddly, the movie "Burn Witch Burn" was made not from this, but from the novel Conjure Wife by Fritz Lieber. Both the movie and that book are good too, but not as original or haunting as the Merritt tale. I doubt that a film made from the Merritt book would be able to translate it well. Like Ayesha in She, Madame Mandilip is too vivid, powerful, and larger-than-life to be done properly in a film (not to mention Ursula Andress as She -- a travesty). I'm trying to get hold of a "Burn Witch Burn" film made in the '30s, but I'm not expecting much if I do get it.

26Sakerfalcon
okt 27, 2020, 8:51 am

I'm in Sabor with The merciful crow.

27Jenson_AKA_DL
okt 27, 2020, 11:42 am

Currently visiting the Underworld reading The Phoenix Charm.

28Cecrow
okt 27, 2020, 10:01 pm

>25 rshart3:, I'm pleased someone else feels that way about Ayesha. The novel She stands as a strong example of literature's advantage over film (not that the advantages are all one way, as Laurence Sterne was early to prove).

29navelos
okt 30, 2020, 11:13 am

In 1920s Mexico with Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia not sure if I'll stick around to the end yet.

30seitherin
nov 1, 2020, 4:58 pm