1. Did the Minotaur run last night, which I try to do every couple of months so I can paw over their "new releases" shelves and find shiny things to add to my GoodReads to-read queue (which often leads to me pestering my libraries to buy them, but I figure that's good for everyone, right?). There were a few interesting candidates last night, but I ( Read more... )

I've been reading fantasy fiction since I read Victor Kelleher and The Hobbit when I was about 10. I read everything else as well (no, literally, everything - my project for grade 7 was to read every book on the grade-7-only shelves) but I knew I liked that zany stuff. I fell irrevocably into all-fantasy-all-the-time when I discovered the genre as ( Read more... )

Lev Grossman made a fantasy-condescending post that both exemplifies my general issues with him, and makes me want to bludgeon him off his high horse with, say, a copy of the works of Joe Abercrombie. (Or, as Trudi Canavan said: "Just don't read crap books!")

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C&Ped from my GoodReads...


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( Elric by Michael Moorcock )