Where are you in Fantasyland: August 2011

In the Twelve Crowns in Alphabet of Thorn.

Chicago, in Ghost Story.

In Draegerea with Jhereg and Vlad.

Just left the strange tunnel under Holy Wood in Moving Pictures.

Still wandering around Westeros in A Clash of Kings...

Also taking detours to Minhorne in Lightborn...

And just recently found myself in New York with angels in Angelology

I'm so enjoying exploring Thornburg and its environs under a Goblin moon. Many thanks to everyone who recommended and discussed the book on here - that's why I love LT!

I'm in Maine, reading Eye of the Tempest

#6 - :)

If you are not aware, Theresa Edgerton is still writing, but under another name.

>8: Oh good, I've a feeling I will want more when I finish Goblin Moon! I have Child of Saturn lined up already . . .

FYI - the other name Teresa Edgerton is writing under is Madeline Howard

Chicago in Ghost Story.

Wandering Deverry in The Shadow Isle

I'm in some godawful middle-of-nowhere town (much like the one I live in) learning about color magic and The Black Prism

I'm now with Jennifer Strange in The Last Dragonslayer. It's going well.

Just started Debt of Bones...looks like a quick read...

While I wait for more Teresa Edgerton/Madeline Howard to arrive, I'm visiting Cantiacorum in Cold magic by Kate Elliott. So far I'm loving this alt-Victorian-type world, where the Roman Empire lasted 1000 years.

I've just come back from visiting the Prince of Annwn and am not sure yet where I want to head off next. We'll see!

I'm in the land of the dead - reading Magic at the Gate by Devon Monk

I'm sailing on a barch from the City of Elua to Marsilikos - reading Kushiel's Mercy.

Finally started Goblin Moon by Teresa Edgerton. Thanks for the nudges!

The Fourlands still holds my attention as I'm in the middle of the 2nd book of The Castle Omnibus by Steph Swainston.

Just finished traveling with David in search of The Book of Lost Things.

Attending university in The Wise Man's Fear.

Wandering around through Egyptian mythology with Carter and Sadie in The Red Pyramid.

About to start The Name of the Wind

At the Golden Pony with Kvothe in The Wise Man's Fear......I might catch up with BigJoel55 there :)

I've just escaped the thrall of Cold magic with Cat and Bee. I really loved this one, and am eagerly awaiting the sequel. For now, though, I'm in Ambergris with Finch.

In London with Peter Grant and Inspector Nightingale in Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch.

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Let me know what you think. I'm having a love/hate thing for Rothfuss. I constantly thing his style is too contemporary to be convincing in an epic fantasy, but I also can't put his books down.

As an aside, I also think he must be paid per word, or he has an incompetent editor. The same could be said of much of the epic fantasy genre at the moment (e.g. Robert Jordan and/or Brandon Sanderson).

I'm in Westeros, Free Cities and the like with A Storm Of Swords. Also I'm greatly enjoying frequent visits to Gurkhul, Angland and other locations in The Blade Itself.

Just back from South Wales and Shropshire, reading Jo Walton's Among Others.

Moving on with Carter, Sadie, and the Egyptian pantheon in The Throne of Fire.

Reading Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer.

I've just left Uberwald in The Fifth Elephant. ^-^

I'm in Prague in Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

With Aren climbing the Hob's Mountain in The Hob's Bargain.

Finished Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton.

In Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Machiavelli, Joan of Arc, The Compte of Saint-Germaine & Co - fighting beings of legend and myth... The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, book 2)
by Michael Scott

argh. I tried to start The Magician but then got sidetracked. I need to get back to that book.

ETA - fixed touchstone

I was recently in Myrillia with the Godslayer in Shadowfall, looks like I will soon be landing with the settlers of Gamma Draconis III in Planet of Exile.

Just finished Mistborn.

#29 I've just read this one book, but Sanderson seems well edited. In fact he has commented a lot on the contribution of his editors. I'm just happy he has one at all, they seem to be less involved with many of the books I read these days.

I'm about to storm the Red Castle in Prince of Thorns.

#42 Go, Jorg, go!

I just finished Among the Hidden. Good, but I'm not sure I want to plow into another six books in the series right now. I don't know whether this should be considered fantasy. I guess it's more dystopian.

For now, I'm getting back to (non-fantasy) Stowe's 1862 novel of coastal Maine, The Pearl of Orr's Island.

In Sydney with some well-meaning Australian vampires in The Reformed Vampire Support Group who are trying to find who murdered one of the group members.

I'm back & forth between Berkeley and the Napa Valley (and occasionally the Other Realm) in Lisa Goldstein's new novel, The Uncertain Places.

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My wife is a big Lisa Goldstein fan, she thought The Uncertain Places was excellent.

Lisa will be at Worldcon in Reno this coming week.

I am reading Dance With Dragons finally after waiting a long time for a library copy. I am really sorry to say that I am disappointed with it. I'm half way through and I am glad to be back with my favourite characters but it seems to me that everything is moving at a snail's pace with a lot of time spent dwelling on the horridness of their lives but not much being done about it.

I guess I have grown too impatient. Maybe it will pick up in the last half of the book.

ETA Well, Okay Then! I have just read the LT reviews and I see that I am not the only one. That makes me feel better ;)

#48, nhlsecord - The epilogue justifies the means regarding A Dance With Dragons.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone started out alright but became too Romeo & Juliet for my taste.

I'm now in various locations in The Monster's Corner.

Finished Shadowborn and am now totally focused in Milton, NY with the angels in Angelology

Just left Ambergris with Finch; I hope it will not be the last time I get to visit (at present Finch is the last book Vandermeer has set there). Now I'm on a return trip to Skala with Seregil and Alec hoping for some Luck in the shadows.

Finished The Wise Man's Fear. Liked it a lot, despite some earlier concerns (see #29). Really liked the portion in Adem. Like a lot of second books, it seems to be setting up later events (at least I hope so!).

#41 - I've only read Sanderson's The Way of Kings so I'm not sure about his other work. At 1250 pages I thought the work ambitious and entertaining, but at times repetitive - as if he didn't remember explaining things and re-explained them later.

I'm in the desert of Nevada, checking out a cabin Maggie has recently inherited from a famous poet she's never met in person.

The Wood Wife by Terri Windling

#53 Lol, maybe he was worried people would forget after hundreds of pages and should reexplain everything

I've just finished reading the following books and somwhat to my own shock I've really enjoyed them all as I often go long stretches without finding a good fantasy series to read. They are all urban fantasy

Kate Griffin - a madness of angels, midnight mayor & neon court
Trent Jamieson - death most definite and managing death. I'm glad the third book The Business of Death will be out in a couple of weeks to put me out of my misery to the ending of the trilogy

It's always great to get a good run of books like this but it rarely happens.

Just left Harry Dresden's Chicago after a whole lot of battles and revelations in Ghost Story.

Alternating between The Magicians of Caprona with Diana Wynne Jones and the Unwaba Revelations with Samit Basu. Depends on my mood at the moment.

> 52: I read somewhere that VanderMeer was done with Ambergris. I've read the first book, City of Saints and Madmen, and have the other two to look forward to. It's a creepy but fascinating world he's created.

Heading off to London with Nicholas Flamel & Co - fighting beings of legend and myth... The Sorceress (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, book 3) by Michael Scott.

>59: I'd heard that too, but am hoping he'll change his mind. I still have some of the short fiction to keep me going for a while.

Just woke up in a barn with Bill Door in Reaper Man.

Roaming Dogsland with some wolves burning down a building that a demon touched in Never Knew Another. McDermott has built his own world including religions and wars, and with wolves being superior to man. "Walkers" can go between both societies.

I'm in the city of Jaggonath with Damien Vryce, having just started Black Sun Rising. Wanted to read the series for quite a while, since I love dark fantasy, but waited until I owned the whole set (plenty to read meanwhile!). So far it seems very promising. More Science Fantasy than traditional fantasy, since it's on another planet -- something like the scenario of the Darkover series, as far as I can tell, but clearly much darker.

Just got to the Barrowland in The White Rose after revisiting Darujhistan in Gardens of the Moon

Finished Fenrir by MD Lachlan, sequel to Wolfsangel. I didn't like the second book as much as the first.

I'm still slogging through Westeros in A Clash of Kings, but I finished the other couple books I was reading, so I need to build back up - I can't read just one book at a time anymore. I'm going to divide my time between the war of the Seven Kingdoms and the wonderful world of Terre d'Ange and Alba in Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey. I've missed her world.

Back in Chicago with Harry Dresden in Jim Butcher's Ghost Story.

I just left Annalise of Verdant Hills and her two talking sheep in Melissa Studdard's book, Six Weeks To Yehidah. I travelled through magical lands, sang with Annalise, jumped into a shimmering underwater city and celebrated the triumph of Annalise's trials and travails. I did not want to come back to reality!!! I had so much fun reading this book!

Just left the Aetherials of Cloudcroft in Elfland and following up with some of their Scottish relations in Midsummer Night.

Also, I'm revisiting the trellwolves and their bonded brothers in The Tempering of Men.

Just finished a trip through "Elsewhere" with Olive Dunwoody (The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1). Nothing terribly original about it, but I give it three stars for Olive's combination of klutz and spunk.

I'm in Scranton with the Supe squad in Hard Spell.

I just finished reading Wildwood Dancing and now I've sneaked aboard a ship in a fit of rage, not realizing the ship would set sail with me in it (Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier).

Side note: Using the proper past tense of 'sneak' (sneaked) sounds ridiculous to someone use to saying and hearing the American slang term of 'snuck'. What are other people's thoughts on sneaked vs snuck?

I'm with the Bridgeburners and we're headed to war with the Pannion Domin. Anomander Rake's just arrived in dragon form and damn near pulled out Dragnipur. Close call! Memories of Ice

I'm reading Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko...

73: I think they BOTH sound ridiculous, and thus avoid using the past tense of "sneak" at all costs.

Snuck is slang?

(On thinking about it, I think I find the two interchangeable.)

Just left Herewiss, Freelorn and friends in Darthen, in The door into fire. I predict that I will enter The door into shadow very soon.

>73: As a Brit, I can just about take snuck, though would myself only use sneaked, but I really hate when people use "drug" instead of "dragged". That is just wrong! Fortunately it doesn't seem to happen very often - yet.

what about 'snucked' :)

With Septimus Heap in Darke.

How about 'wreaked' instead of 'wrought'?

I'm currently in a London filled with crazy cultists and dark magic, searching for a vanished giant squid in China Miéville's Kraken.

I'm in San Francisco - reading Tea With the Black dragon

Sandyg210, one of my favorites :)

I am in Tombstone, Earp and Holliday's Territory. But this is Emma Bull so there is a little something magical about this Earp and Holliday. I'm wearing a hat, neckerchief, and boots while reading---adds to the ambiance.

I'm with peasant-knight and medieval investigator of sorts Jehan de Montpéril in L'Armure de vengeance as he tries to puzzle out the events surrounding an apparently cursed and murderous suit of full plate armor.

Should also have been continuing member giveaway Laying the odds where events were picking up after 70 pages of trudging through fairly generic countryside, but I seem not to have mailed the file to myself or brought it to my current location.

I just finished working through the Maria Snyder Glass trilogy starting with Storm Glass and Jim Butchers Changes. Not sure where I'll go next.

Back in San Fransisco with Nicholas Flamel (only one more book to go after this, woohoo!) The Necromancer (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, book 4) by Michael Scott.

Just reached Mrs Gogol's house in the swamp in Witches Abroad. Read the first 176 pages in the doc's waiting room actually. A good book really makes those hours fly. ^_^ Not sure where I'll be going after this since I've yet to acquire Small Gods.

I'm in Caputan hoping not to be eaten by the attackers. Where the heck is Moon's Spawn? What's up with the Warrens? Paran, wake up! Help! Memories of Ice invade my thoughts!

I've been riding with the Jaran. I guess this book is classified as Sf, but riding horses across the steppes with a group of handsome men seems to make it a fantasy, at least to me ;-)

Just started A Game of Thrones, so I'll probably be immersed in that for a while.

Just bought Landover in Magic Kingdom for Sale. Seems a bit slow at the moment, hope something exciting starts happening in the next chapter or so.

September thread - http://www.librarything.com/topic/123043