This week we’re reading from the beginning of the Prologue, "The queen waited..." through the end of Chapter 5, "...knowing himself entirely guilty of what the king had not condescended to assume him of."

Prologue + Chapters 1-5 of The King of Attolia

These discussions are spoiler free for the new short stories, “The Wine Shop” and “The Knife ( Read more... )

I had so much fun during the character chat, that I thought it was worth it to pay ten bucks in order to save the full transcript. I do think it's a pretty sneaky way for Chatzy to get money. Honestly, it is better than ads though. Can you imagine being forced to watch a commercial for toilet paper before you are allowed to enter the chat room? ( Read more... )

As we prepare for Hurricane Sandy's impact, we hope that allowing her to blow out her frustrations on the Eastern seaboard will allow her to calm down, and perhaps begin to see Eugenides in a new, better light. (Or at least give him a few sand free days as she is busy elsewhere!!:)

( More Hurricane names ... )

So, I have just been considering crazy plot twists that might make themselves shown in the next Queen's Thief book(s)
I've been thinking about Gen's secret desires for power alluded to in The King of Attolia in a conversation between Irene and Relius:

"But I think Eugenides is afraid."
"Of what?"
"Of failing," said Attolia, as though that fear, at ( Read more... )

It started with a post about some friendly competition during the YA Fantasy Showdown,

to which aspectabund said this:  He'd just like, catch it and throw it back harder and stick it right in her EYE!

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/398470.html?thread=9934470#t9934470 (the orignal post and discussion)

and went on a tangent nicely into a ( Read more... )

The perks of study abroad include being able to visit really cool museums that don't exist in your itty bitty home town. Even better perks include finding little bits of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis as I travel (especially since I've always associated the three more with Spain than anywhere else). This week I went to the Museo Naval (Navy Museum) in ( Read more... )

Time is ticking on, and there are already less than three weeks until CofK - the anticipation is killing me! And there's nothing, short of inventing time-travel, I can do except to patiently wait... and read.

And so we come to the fabulous middle section of KoA! I was very excited to get to do the post on such an action-packed section of the book, ( Read more... )

Onward we march, getting closer each day to ACoK! Huzzah!   But please no ACoK spoilers!

Reading from line: The queen waited.
Ending at line: Costis walked on through the palace and down to the Guard's barracks, knowing himself entirely guilty of what the king had not condescended to accuse him of.

(page numbers from hardback edition)

General Thoughts/ ( Read more... )

I recently joined Sounis and well...I've just had so many questions, there is a good chance that they have all been throughly discussed already, but who doesn't love a good discussion ( Read more... )

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