Re-read the Mage Wars series. ( cut for spoiler )

Since a fair amount of tonight's nonsense involved "hurry up and wait," I finished this one off, far sooner than I'd expected to. There's a lot of references made that have me wanting to go reread By the Sword and The Black Gryphon again. ( cut for spoiler )

I actually had a new book to read, but couldn't find it when I was rushing off to work this morning. Actually, I panicked and thought I had left the book at the restaurant I had killed some time in yesterday afternoon before the fundraiser. Called them on my lunch break, but nobody remembered anyone turning in a book. Searched my car a bit more ( Read more... )

There had to be some rereads sooner or later: Heir to the Shadows and Memory. Two series I'm forever rereading, and these two just jumped up and begged to be read this week. I'm kind of impressed that it's nearly mid-March and I'm only just adding in the first of those. I'll have to look at last year's entries to see when the first re-reads came ( Read more... )

So, between down time when I had that bug and down time at work, and today's down time due to cramps, I've gotten a lot of reading in.

The X-Files: Whirlwind by Charles Grant. I stumbled across it while cleaning. I'm filing it as a first-time read because I did not remember a single word of it. It was good, back-to-basics X-Files weirdness fun ( Read more... )

It really took awhile to get into this one, but I finally did, and it finally developed some of the drama that the Dune series typically has. But it also often feels like it is trying too hard to fill in all the gaps, as many prequels do. Though this is the first of the Brian Hebert Dune prequels that has felt that way soooo strongly ( Read more... )

Magic's Price was excellent. Unsurprisingly. ( cut for spoileriness )

I'm liking Vanyel more and more as these books go on.

Went to the mall with friends the other day, and made myself buy some books by other authors. Only one is on my TBR list, but at least it will be a break from Lackey, Lackey, all the time.

( The Challenge Chart )

#4The Silver Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon. It was as good as the first two, and starts to get into some of the weirdness around magic in specific locations that you see in the later Valdemar books. They did finally get around to what was driving me crazy with anticipation, on p. 107 ( spoilery )

I don't remember if The Lark and the Wren fell into last year or this year, but it's a reread so I'm not going to worry about counting it. But for the past two weeks my downtime waiting for people in appointments, etc, has been spent in Valdemar. Or rather, most of it in the lands that I think are supposed to become Valdemar, plus one well past ( Read more... )