While you're pacing the house, waiting for your precious copy of Return of the Thief, take a look at this synopsis of the entire series, written by Tor's Natalie Zutter. She does an excellent job of describing each book and how they all fooled us, and explaining the meanings of the different myths and stories. It's full of spoilers for the first ( Read more... )

Congratulations, you have survived to this day, which, considering the year we've had...was easier said than done.


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Here you go! The transcript from last night's chat. I wasn't able to be there, but it looks as if the people in the Conspiracy Room tackled ccwtaylor to wrestle her copy of Return of the Thief away from her. I'm sorry I missed all the fun!

Read all about the shenanigans here.

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Our first chat was loads of fun! We chatted about TT and the first two (chronological) short stories. We even had an unexpected guest--Megan joined us for awhile. Of course, there were no spoilers for RotT but lots of great book discussion.

As we continue with our rereading, this week's topics of discussion are The Queen of Attolia and the short ( Read more... )

One thing everyone loves about the Queen's Thief series is that no matter how many times you reread, there's always something new you realize. Sometimes, the it's bits of dialogue given new meaning with context. Sometimes, bits of the plot that fit together just so. Often, the realization is extremely painful and honestly makes you want to cry. ( Read more... )

It feels hubristic to call speculations spoilery, as if I know what's going to happen in Return of the Thief. (If there's one thing I'm completely confident of, it's that I absolutely do not know what MWT has in store for us!) But since I'm theorizing about the final book, I'll put it all in the comments for those who don't even want speculative ( Read more... )

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Hi, everyone! It's been ages - I've been lurking occasionally, but I haven't written in forever. I hope you are all well!

I enjoyed seeing a few people virtually at Megan's recent "Day of Dialog" appearance. So wonderful! (Although I totally forgot to ask my most pressing question, concerning a book I think must have influenced her, which she has ( Read more... )

I just tried out this browser extension on Chrome (it's available for Firefox, too). When you search for a book on Amazon, it shows if the book is available at your local library. How cool is that!?!

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/this-browser-extension-shows-you-which-amazon-books-are-available-free-at-your-local-library/?fbclid= ( Read more... )

Although not a huge fan of the show, I've watched all the episodes of Downton Abbey over the years. I read a few reviews of the recent movie and many of them sing a common song--that it includes too much "fan service." I assume they mean the Wikipedia definition, "material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series which is intentionally added ( Read more... )