Am I the only one who loves ACoK more with each rereading? Dear, dear Sophos. Bunny! It's a bit of an easier book to read--more linear and easier to follow, but with clever political intrigue and tremendous character development. It's so much fun to see characters we thought we knew all about through the eyes of Sophos ( Read more... )

I just finished my reread of ACoK and was musing about dear, dear Sophos and his...

Beard.

He's gone from a sweet, niave boy to a ruthless man, fighting battles and shooting ambassadors. Well, those thoughts reminded me of the kerfluffle about the book cover, when ACoK first was released in 2010. Remember?

Deirdre's post about Vince Natale's ( Read more... )

I want so much to proliferate appreciation and love for Sounis Sophos and the Conspiracy of Kings right now. I feel like a lot of the reason this book doesn't get talked about as much as the others in the series is it's so complex... I have read it multiple times carefully and I think I'm reasonably intelligent... And honestly I'm still not sure ( Read more... )

MWT saw the hegemonic patriarchal, traditionally binary stories of old and flipped them around upon their heads. Saw duality and gave us the spectrum of all infinite possibility and Oneness in its place:

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After considering Gen as an introvert in the QoA read-along, with regards to the Winter of Whining/Healing, I thought it might be fun to pass the last two days before Thick As Thieves by assessing the Myers-Briggs Personality Types for all four monarchs.

I know: I have a weird sense of fun. If you haven’t, don’t click the link XD

( In which four fictional characters are taken (apart) far too seriously... )

This week we finish our community read-along, as we’ve reread all the books to get ready for the release of Thick As Thieves, woohoo! This section covers the last seven chapters of A Conspiracy of Kings, beginning with the change back to to 1st person POV as Sophos says, “ We left Attolia with all the provisions we had missed on our previous ( Read more... )

Welcome back to the community read-along of all the books (so far!). This week, we’re starting A Conspiracy of Kings, reading from the start of the Prologue “The king of Attolia was passing....” to the end of Chapter 12 “...You came in. And you laughed.” Thirteen chapters sounds like a lot, but some of them are actually very short, so please ( Read more... )

A Very Happy Easter to everyone who is celebrating! To add to your joy (I hope!) here is my entry for the Queen's Peeps contest.

A couple of notes:
• 1. I did not look at the other entries before creating this, (mostly because I didn't want to be discouraged if somebody else did a more brilliant version of the same scene.)
• 2. Also, I've decided our ( Read more... )

Hey guys, ever since we got all the exciting news a couple of weeks ago, I've been inspired to sketch and make stuff for QT. I posted them on Tumblr and DA, but I just want to share them here!
( Pictures under cut! )

And we've reached the end! Thank you so much to ninedaysaqueen for coordinating.

This week's discussion covers chapters 10 through the end, from "When I woke, the sun was up and the day was already warm." to " 'Thank you, thief.' 'You're welcome, my queen.' "That is, I believe, the first time we hear anyone addressed directly as "My queen." It certainly isn't ( Read more... )