Hi all. I've just finished the first two Emily Wilde books by Heather Fawcett and hugely enjoyed them for many reasons, not least of all because one of the main characters reminded me so much of Gen! The books (and characters) are of course different, but I think I've had a revelation that a particular character trait I love to read is "apparently ( Read more... )

Are you missing your sounis friends? Remember to stop by the Conspiracy Room on Sunday for a chat about the book that started it all. Ah, Whiny!Gen, Supercilious!Magus, Sweet!Sophos, and Poor!Pol. Time to revisit them all. See you this Sunday, May 7 at 12:00/PT, 1:00/MT, 2:00/CT, and 3:00/ET. If you need the password, it is here.

Come join in the

Hi everyone. I'm a bit of a worrier. I don't forsee Livejournal going dark or drastically changing, but since LJ is Russian-owned, I have downloaded the entire sounis site to Dreamwidth as a backup. Bookmark it, in case sounis was to suddenly disappear. I'll keep up with regular transfers, to keep the Dreamwidth current.

https://queensthief.dreamwidth.org/ ( Read more... )

Just a little background. Although LJ was created in America, it was sold to a Russian media company in 2007 and in 2016-2017 migrated to servers located in Russia. The LJ Terms of Service are in line with Russian law, which caused some previous LJ users to migrate to other social media platforms. It all hit home for me last year when I had to pay ( Read more... )

Super Bowl? What Super Bowl?

Ditch that dumb ol' football game and join us to chat about Diana Wynne Jones' third and final book in the Howl's Moving Castle series, House of Many Ways. The chat will be held in the Conspiracy Room on Sunday, February 13 at 7 PM EST, 6 PM CT. Here's a link to the password for the chatroom ( Read more... )

It's week two of our group reread of Return of the Thief, and time for a chat on Sunday, October 17. Join us in the Conspiracy Room to discuss Volume 1 Chapters 5 - 8. Although most of us at last week's chat couldn't stop reading after just four chapters and, honestly, who could blame us ( Read more... )

There's another great article on tor.com titled Six Great SFF Love Stories, by Everina Mawell. And guess who her first OTP is? You got it--Eugenides and Attolia. Some other of my favorites are mentioned, too (Miles and Ekaterin!), plus, ideas for books I haven't yet read.  Has anyone read Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri? It sounds like one I might

Super-fan Natalie from tor.com asks pondering questions about the possible adaptation of TT that Disney+ has optioned. How to do the whole unreliable narrator thing? Will it be a series, rather than a standalone? And, if a series, how to handle the all-important chop-chop scene? After all, it IS Disney. Read all about it here: 7 Questions for ( Read more... )

I have finished Return of the Thief, and really need to process this section from V2Ch3.  I was commenting on the main book discussion thread and realized my question was rapidly becoming too unwieldy for a simple discussion and decided to post as a separate thread.  I have tried this multiple times and haven't been able to get a single cut to work ( Read more... )

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