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Since I liked the Wee Free Men, I thought I would continue with Tiffany Achings adventures with the Nac Mac Feegle.

A Hat Full of Sky is about Tiffany as she begins her training in witchery. Unfortunate;y she's beeing hunted by something unpleasant and of course the Nac Mac Feegle have to try to rescue her. Unfortunately the Pictsie way of trying ( Read more... )

In the effort to break away from the overwhelming US/European cultural trend that runs rampant through so much of fantasy, I decided to start expanding my reading to a more diverse set of authors. I decided to start with Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.

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This is one of those times where I have to kick myself a little for not picking a book sooner.

I had heard about the zombies and airships and politely went “Okay, that sounds interesting” and would then commence reading something else. If someone had mentioned that there was an awesome middle aged mother who sets off to rescue her son, I MIGHT HAVE ( Read more... )

I don't really have any cute stories about why I picked The House of Discarded Dreams
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The concept of a house that eats people has always been an intriguing on to me as it shows up extremely often in horror films. That and I have a soft spot for what appears to be a variety of time and relative dimensions in space device. It might be a type 20 as opposed to the more frequently seen type 40.

So, The World House's
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This is one of those books where I have utterly no idea what possessed me to pick it up. No one explicitly recommended it to me. I don't even remember what I was thinking when I walked up to the register to pay for it. Now that I've read Paladin of Souls
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Well, looking at my reading queue for the next few books, one might think I'm on something of a humor binge...

( Kobolds do not eat the baby here, one saves the day! )

After lusting after Leviathan last year and finding my initial "oooo!" reaction rewarded with awesome, my wonderful fabulous friend let me borrow her ARC of Behemoth.

( Intrigue in Istanbul (not Constantinople) )

Well, seeing as how most of my friends are nerdy we all went out to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. The initial premise (as mentioned repeatedly in the trailers) is that Scott falls for a girl (Ramona) who has had an unhappy string of relationships with a bunch of nutcases and Scott has to defeat all of them. Just going off of the trailer, I was ( Read more... )