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... I thought they were boring, but the audiobooks were mesmerizing. Dale is a genius.
James Marsters totally ruined the Dresden Files Series, by Butcher, for me. He sniffs through the whole think like he's trying to give the character a superiority complex which completely turned me off. The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher is good. Strong plot, action, little sex. some romance.
Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman. later books have more romance. no sex is described.
Nightside series by Simon R. Green. action, but little romance.
Kate Daniels series by Ilona ... ... many of those identified above, Graceling and Fire by Kristin Cashore have become favorites, as have Jim Butcher's Dresden Files. 190. At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost
191. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher #5 Don't know how I forgot fool moon! where werewolves are the stars. They only eve get bit parts after that.
There's werewolf principle which is very good, but it's distinctly and SF werewolf, and very different from what you may have been expecting. ... I'd suggest the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs which is more urban fantasy than romance. Also, the Harry Dresden series by Jim Butcher has werewolves in it but they are not always prominent characters.
In young adult literature there are the Wereling books by ... Fantasy based favourites:
lord of the rings
curse of the mistwraith
harry dresden
thomas covenant
magician (but not the sequels in this case)
born to exile
A lot of Pratchett's work, but not all, and I can never choose which 1 would be favourite.
kingmaker
the dark is ... ... tion
1) E.E. Byars - Kermis in de hel (Dutch for: To Hell with Love)
2) Santiago Garcia-Clairac - The Black Army
3) Jim Butcher - Fool Moon
4) Rachel Vincent - Stray
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To me Harry Dresden, along with the Nightside books, and Conner Grey, The Changeling Detective agency etc. are all more or less "formulaic fantasy PI type pulp", just as Mercy Thompson, Anita Blake, Merry Gentry etc. are all more or less formulaic chick-lit type pulp. Doesn't mean I ... 30. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher I'd certainly say that the Harry Dresden series is a prime urban fantasy example. I've always felt it is anything involving the supernatural/paranormal set in a present day/real life setting.
I've just read a newish urban fantasy that I really enjoyed and thought I'd throw the name out there. ... I second AnnieMod's recommendations on this: Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, and China Mieville's The City and the City.
I'd add ones by Emma Bull: War for the Oaks and Finder. Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar wasn't as much my cup ... ... r
several more made it to 4.5 *
- all the others in the mistwraith series, several of the later books Jim Butcher's harry dresden series, TP's the truth, Cherryh's forge of heaven vastly different from the 1st in the series, red mars and blue, but not green which was only 4*. The ... 87. Fool Moon The Dresden Files #2. Werewolves of every variety and Harry Dresden, Professional Wizard. :) Having seen the show, the actors embody my mind's eye versions of these characters, complete with hockey stick. Shame he doesn't actually use one.... A bit of blood in this one, what ... Fool Moon by Jim Butcher 29. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
30. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
31. When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
32. The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
33. The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay*
34. The Embodied Mind by Varela, Thompson ... ... authors
26. Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell
27. Go with me - Castle Freeman Jr.
28. Fool moon - Jim Butcher
29. Grave peril - Jim Butcher
30. Summer knight - Jim Butcher
31. The mystic arts of erasing all signs of death - Charli ... So you can add:
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Clockwork by Philip Pullman
The Public Image by Muriel Spark
The Counterfeit Crank by Edward Marston
and these reviews so far...
Andrew Jackson by Sean Wilentz ... cmbohn - In all fairness, I should say that while Fool Moon was quite gory (lots of blood and viscera and so forth), it might just be because the plot involved werewolves. Storm Front was violent too, but it wasn't particularly gory in my opinion. Owned but unread: Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
As the only wizard who openly advertises in the phone book, Harry Dresden is frequently asked to collaborate on “unusual” police cases. So when a man is brutally murdered – by a werewolf – he’s called in to investigate. Harry soon finds ... ... and Zane from Hawksong
Bella and Edward from Twilight
Alec and Seregil from the Nightrunner series
and Harry Dresden, my newest unforgettable character. 29. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (***)
This is my second Harry Dresden book and, after reading Storm Front, I have to say I was a little disappointed. It's an entertaining read, but I found the character of Harry to be inconsistent. Yeah, yeah, I know people are really just one big mass of ... >190 Smiley, thanks for the tip!
I just posted reviews of Fool Moon by Jim Butcher and Silas Marner on my new "75-Books Challenge" thread. Can't believe I'm up to four threads over there!
http://www.librarything.com/topic/68941/ Fifty-four of seventy-five:
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher is the second book in the Dresden Files, a series of thriller/mysteries set in Chicago, featuring the city's only "out" wizard as the sleuth.
Someone help me here. These are compulsively readable books, and I grant Butcher full props ... >5 Berly, ewww. I was up with the goblins because I was reading Fool Moon. I am so envious of Jim Butcher I could spit. This series of books has sold in the squillions and was optioned for TV and I am going to read them all so I can figure out why, and how I can do the same thing.
>6 Hi Woof ... ... - Isaac Asimov
FEBUARY 2009
13.The Dresden Files: Storm Front - Jim Butcher
MARCH 2009
14.The Dresden Files: Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
15.The Dresden Files: Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
16.Dark Jewels: The Invisible Ring - Anne Bishop
APRIL 2009
... ... tone or quality of the books! But yeah, the one for Corambis was particularly egregious.
Right now, I'm finishing up Fool Moon and just starting Julian Comstock. I also have Lavinia on my shelf at home! ... says I? Is he still me?" on p23 of A Mad Desire to Dance and said, "Oh HELL no," set the book down, and picked up Fool Moon by Jim Butcher and am about eight chapters in. Just can't do that today. I shall return to the thickets of impenetrability tomorrow, agog to conquer ... Fool Moon by Jim Butcher - fun series ... The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Also, Wake by Lisa McMann.
If you want to try an adult wizard in Chicago, the Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcher are fun. Storm Front is the first one. Again more faerie than tolkein elves would be some of Harry Dresden's adventures - Summer knight is I think the first time he's involved with them, and one of the best of the early stories. Worth reading the whole series though which starts with storm front
+1 on Faerie Tale, it's great.
... 29) Fool Moon ... I will love Lamb! Thanks for the warm fuzzies for finals..I am heading into my final year now, hurray!
and...
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher even better than Storm Front! Dresden faces a whole lotta foes, some of them four-legged, some of them two-legged; all of them have hidden ... ... genre from high school) but it has to be very character driven fantasy like the Labrynth books by Sarah Monette or the Harry Dresden books. ... audiobook today. An amusing little mystery which kept me entertained during my work commute, but not exceptional.
72. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. This is the second in the Harry Dresden series. Interesting and entertaining with lots of magic and malice this time involving all flavors of ... 18 -- fool moon
A wizard who solves crime is the bestest idea for a series this week. ... and am intrigued by those that don't like it or have trouble reading it. Hard to figure. Glad you're enjoying the first Harry Dresden book; it's a fun series. ... colonise the red planet. Showing its age slightly in some of the issues it addresses but still a good read.
Also read Fool Moon, the 2nd in The Dresden Files series. Lots more hinting at Harry's back-story which I'm sure will be explored further as this unfolds. I will be continuing with ... ... devoid of all the mysticism and magic I had anticipated.
8) What is the best book you've read in the past year? Either Fool by Christopher Moore or The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Rather opposite ends of the emotional spectrum, eh?
9) If you could force everyone you tagged to ... ... series (the first, Still Life, was quite good), and Mean Streets, edited by Jim Butcher, with stories featuring Harry Dresden and others. I have been awarded 9. I've received 7 so far. (Fool hasn't come *yet* - I hope) and I just got a March bonus batch notification. Best books of Jan-Mar, 2009:
1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
3. Fool by Christopher Moore
4. Blindness by Jose Saramago
5. Resistance by Owen Sheers
I really can't say enough about American Gods. It's tentatively ... ... story of a detective/wizard in Chicago. We meet the main cast of characters and there’s a very good mystery to solve.
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher 03/15/09 03/18/09 *** Werewolves…. A little nervous making, but still very good.
Stupid American History by Leland Gregory 03/18/09 ... ... - Next book(s) in a series
9.1 Resurrectionist by James McGee *
9.2 Rapscallion by James McGee *
9.3 Fool Moon by Jim Butcher *
9.4 Grave Peril by Jim Butcher *
9.5 Before They Were Hanged by Joe Abercrombie *
9.6 Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercro ... Eh, I figure a free book is a free book. I am mildly annoyed about not receiving Fool yet but I have enough in my TBR pile to keep me going for decades. When I start jonesing for Christopher Moore I'll borrow Fool from the local library.
edit: sorry, still can't get the Fool touchstone to ... I finished Fool by Christopher Moore last week, I did literally laugh out loud. It was funny, raunchy, of course he took license with characters from other plays, and overall a delightful, light read. ... it took Teery a few books to settle into his style.
Other series I'm actively following
Wars of light and Shadow
Harry Dresden
Jack Reacher
Kinsey
foreigner
fortress in the eye of time
mistborn
and then there are loads of finished series' such as
hitchhiker's
the ... You can't do much better than The Dresden Files for that, karenmarie! Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Murphy in The Dresden Files, and Katsa in Graceling. None of them will suffer nonsense. ;-) Jack Reacher and Harry Dresden, Stephanie Plum and Katsa in Graceling, Emma in Kaoru Mori's graphic series, Miyamoto Mushashi as portrayed in the Vagabond series by Inoue, Sonchai Jitleecheep in the Bangkok series by John Burnett, Inspector Montalbano in the Andrea Camille ... ... eventually so it's sitting patiently on my shelves waiting for the right moment.
I snuck in the 2nd Dresden Files book Fool Moon but now I'm in a fuzzle - Paris to the Moon doesn't thrill me, and have picked up The Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams. ... Storm Front and loved it. I was going to start something else for my bookclub, but my hand grabbed the 2nd one instead, Fool Moon! ... Garth Nix
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
and
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Book #4 for 2009 is Fool Moon by Jim Butcher and it was an excellent read keeping me on the edge of my seat to find out what is going to happen next. ... of the Crimson Rose,Lauren Willig (reread)
24. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, Lauren Willig
25. Fool, Christopher Moore
26. Resistence, Owen Sheers
27. Blindness, Jose Saramago
Currently Reading:
Good Night, Mr. Holmes, Carole Nelson Dougla ... ... 9)
2. Dresden Files Book 1 Storm Front by Jim Butcher (DONE 2/8/09)
3. Dresden Files Book 2 Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (DONE 4/22/09)
4. Dresden Files Book 3 Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (DONE 5/1/09)
5. China Bayles Book 1 Th ... Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bennet from Pride and Prejudice
Katsa from Graceling by Kristen Croshere
Murphy from the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Katerin from the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold ... in Chains.
Otherwise Jamie from Outlander still remains my absolute favourite character ever.
Harry Dresden from The Dresden Files comes in a close second. I'm going to start reading the Dresden Files byJim Butcher. For some reason it just caught my eye is Barnes and Nobles near Christmas. Sadly, I've been too busy to start reading it yet :(
-Philip ... Amber
5. Haven Kimmel - The Used World
6. Helen Halstead - Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride
7. Jim Butcher - Fool Moon
8. Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet
9.
III. Pulitzer winners
1. Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
2. Eudora Welty - The Opt ... The Dresden Files
1. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
2. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
3. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
4. Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
5. Death Masks by Jim Butcher
6. Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
7. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
8. Proven Guilty by ... ... /18)
7) Prom Nights from Hell (Completed 6/29)
Wizards - COMPLETE
1) Storm Front by Jim Butcher (Completed 6/9)
2) Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (Completed 6/11)
3) Grave Peril by Jim Butcher (Completed 6/12)
4) Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (Completed 6/13)
5) Death Masks by Jim Butc ... ... authors
26. Down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
27. Go with me by Castle Freeman Jr.
28. Fool moon by Jim Butcher
29. Grave peril by Jim Butcher
30. Summer knight by Jim Butcher
31. The mystic arts of erasing all signs of death by Charlie ... ... - I'd be delighted to! I just have to start reading it, first ;-)
#37 - I thought Storm front was... entertaining. Fool moon was less so, to many clichés in one pot, and no deliberate bending. Well written, though. I know I'll read more of them, just for entertainment, but they really ... Recommended
1. The Once and Future King
2. Magic Bites
3. Fool {X}
4. The Bone Doll's Twin
5. The Lies of Locke Lamora
6. Magic Study
7. The Briar King
8. Dragon Champion
9. The Sword of Shannara ... The Thorn Birds
8. Fantasy
- Mercedes Lackey, One Good Knight
- Neil Gaiman, Coraline
- Jim Butcher, Fool Moon
- Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
- Stephanie Meyer, Twilight (I'm so curious now...)
- Naomi Novik, Empire of Ivory
- Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic ... I'm reading Jim Butcher's Fool Moon in between Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances, which I should have finished a month ago for my Medieval Lit class but never did. Good thing I didn't have a mid-year exam, eh? ... likat,
You might try on a Repairman Jack book by F. Paul Wilson. The first one is The Tomb another possibility is a Dresden Files Book by Jim Butcher or for something lighter ,one of Christopher Moore's comic horror tales like Bloodsucking Fiends or A Dirty Job. ... & Larry Dixon
3 The White Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon
4 The Far Kingdoms BY Allan Cole & Chris Bunch
5 Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, Book 2) by Jim Butcher
6 Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, Book 3) by Jim Butcher
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Dragons
1 Dragon Blood by Patricia Briggs
... ... of this particular series he does. I am talking about Jim Butcher and his Codex Alera Series. I see plenty about the Dresden Files but nothing about Codex Alera. Perhaps I just missed it but either way I love that series. ... than I am now. Sunshine by Robin McKinley stands out for me in this genre, but almost all of the others, even the Dresden Files, just don't really do it for me. But if you enjoy this genre, then this author is doing it quite well.
Filled in some gaps today:
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Pretties and Specials by Scott Westerfeld trisweather - some examples of urban fantasy are the Anita Blake and Merry Gentry books by Laurell K. Hamilton, the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, books by Keri Arthur, the Sookie Stackhouse and the Grave Surprise series by Charlaine Harris, the Blood Lines books ... Well I picked up Fool Moon from the library yesterday and started it last night thinking I'd only read one or two chapters. Unfortunately I was unaware of the hex on the book that made me unable to put it down until I finished it. Now I want to read the next book, but it's checked out. So instead ... ... might freeze over, I hasten to add. I picked up six new books this week alone, plus one library book. Argh!
Finished Fool Moon and it was a **ripsnorter**. Poor old Harry Dresden managed several days without sleep fighting vicious werewolves. I was exhausted by the end myself! (Nothing ... ... Harry Dresden (Storm Front) and really enjoyed it, so I might be fighting him over the chance to start the second one (Fool Moon) tonight. :) He also read Tinker and liked the concepts, but not the kissing bits. The sequel for that one will be for me alone, when I get around to buying it. ... M is for Malice last night, and it was (yet again) a spiffing tale.
Not sure what will take its place tonight - Fool Moon is towards the top of the pile, but I've got a craving for Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders... if I could find *where* my copy is... 74: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher - 09/16/08-4.64 
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
342 pages / 2001 / 4 stars / Fantasy / 9-3-08
Werewolves and lycanthropes and loup-garou, oh my!
You can read my review wookiebender in BookCrossing Australia! : Group Reading Log: August 2008 (Aug 27, 2008, 7:45pm)
... Among Sequels. Read the first chapter or so on the bus to work, sniggering happily.
Was tempted by Wolf Who Rules and Fool Moon, but will have to get those another time.... After finishing Fool Moon the other day I perversely decided to reread In the Company of Others right away.
It will definitely be some time before I pick up the next Dresden book. Entertaining, but like a light snack - tasty, but it won't sustain you.
I think I'll pick either The Book of ... ... not being able to be in the company of those characters any more.
As my next read I've deliberately picked some fluff - Fool Moon, the 2nd Dresden book. I can't afford neglecting life around me the way I do when I get sucked into a story like the one I've just finished. The dishes need to be ... I think the Harry Dresden books by Jim Butcherwould fall into the fantasy/mystery catagory.
A few others I've read and enjoyed that seemed like mysteries are the Aisling Grey books by Katie MacAlister, Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Shearin, The Blood Books by Tanya Huff ... ... the SF bookshop to pick up a book for a friend. When I walked out I for some reason had book #2 of the Dresden books, Fool Moon, with me.
How did that happen?! ... rst
3. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
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Series (Next in line)
1. Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
2. Full Moon: Book two by Jim Butcher
3. The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell
4. Fruits basket 19 by Natsuki Takaya (english version)
5. Bleach 22 by Tite Kubo
6. Blade ... Fool Moon made into an episode. It was a really good series and cancelled far too soon. Let's go with all the ones I can remember straightaway-
1 - 6. Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Death Masks and White Night by Jim Butcher
7. The Modocs and Their War by Keith A. Murray
8. Primative Pragmatists by Verne F. Ray
9. Virtual Li ... In the first Harry Dresden Book there is a scene where he is really angry and makes this amazing entrance into Marcone's bar. Even though I don't usually visualize when I read, I could actually see that one in my head.
In The Unicorn Creed by Elizabeth Scarborough (and this might be ... Series (Next in line)
1. Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
2. Full Moon: Book two by Jim Butcher
3. The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell
4. Fruits basket 19 by Natsuki Takaya (english version)
5. Bleach 22 by Tite Kubo
6. Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill
7. Ranger's Apprentice : the ... ... 21 by Natsuki Takaya
8. Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi
Series (Next in line)
1. Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
2. Full Moon: Book two by Jim Butcher
3. The Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell
4. Fruits basket 19 by Natsuki Takaya (english version)
5. Bleach 22 by Tite Kubo
6. Blade ... ... okay now for books:
January to April:
Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill, good sequel to a fun young adult series.
Full Moon: Book two by Jim Butcher, I don't think I liked this one as much as the first book in the series. That maybe because the story was done in the TV series, which I ... I've just finished White night - having started Fool Moon on the 25th March. Which means I've been reading about Harry for 3 straight weeks.
It's all been getting a bit much, and hard to disassociate the rest of my life from his world!
Anyone else read the series back to back? I think by ... ... and Privilege of the Sword are similar Victorian style but with only the smallest bit of fantasy in them
All the Harry Dresden books are actually a good read :)
the Dante Valentine books by Lilith Saintcrow are also good dark urban fantasy and I also enjoyed the first of the Ja ... I was thinking of Dragonlance in my #2.
Harry Dresden is starting to get close to the dark side, but he's probably only light grey. Fun reads though.
Have you tried On a Darkling plain or Drachenfels there's quite a few RPG novelisations some of which are quite good.
Perdido Street ... 8. Fool Moon Jim Butcher
9. Grave Peril Jim Butcher
10. Summer Knight Jim Butcher ... finished Mistwraith, 4 days completely absorbed. If you liked the group read Hell's chasm you should read this!
Now onto Fool Moon which is thin in comparison. (I've skipped storm front because it's not the best, it only really introduce Harry and Murphy and I've read it a few times. I can do ... ... from a writing life by Terry Brooks - finished 03/07/2008
14. Storm Front by Jim Butcher - finished 03/09/2008
15. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher - finished 03/10/2008
16. Grave Peril by Jim Butcher - finished 03/12/2008
... out in public. I'm such a softy. I just hope that people thought I had... er... something in my eye.
Now I'm starting Fool Moon, which should be a somewhat lighter read.
... out in public. I'm such a softy. I just hope that people thought I had... er... something in my eye.
Now I'm starting Fool Moon, which should be a somewhat lighter read. ... for a bit more specialty vocab. Plus, I went into Borders yesterday, and came out with Children of Men (P. D. James) and Fool Moon (Dresden Files). ... again):
Jacob by Jacquiline Frank
Ransom by Lee Rowan
Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Sorcerer's Legacy by Janny Wurts
Since the touchstones still seem to be feeling uncooperative I will try to come back and edit the ... Niamh Parsons & the Loose Connections - Loosen Up.
The Green Dragon literary connection: finished Fool Moon, the 2nd Harry Dresden book last night -the 1st track of Loosen Up this morning: "The Big Bad Wolf." *Fool Moon features werewolves*
Parsons is an amazing Traditional Irish singer ... ... 5 of them were manga which are pretty short reads.
Again the Magic by Lisa Kleypas would be my top romance pick, Fool Moon by Jim Butcher my top fantasy, Getting Lost with Boys by Hailey Abbott is my top YA pick for the month, but my overall fave are the Her Majesty's Dog ... I'm about a third of the way through Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. Storm Front didn't exactly blow me out of the water, but I figured I'd try another book or two. So far, this book has just confirmed my opinion: this is okay stuff, but nothing worth keeping for ever and ever.
I'm also ... I'm done with Prador Moon ('A') and Fool Moon ('A'). Now I'm working on Rainbow's End. I read Fool Moon last week which was really good and am looking forward to Grave Peril which should be in this week from the library as well as Tanya Huff's first to books in her Blood Ties series.
Right now I'm reading a YA urban fantasy, So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld. ... brary
161. Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb - keeper
162. Fables: Wolves by Bill Willingham et al - library
163. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher - library
164. Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb - KEEPER
165. The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb - KEEPER
166. Fool's Fate by Robin Hob ... 120th book Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Review -
Funny thing about these Harry Dresden stories. I've only read the two of them and for some reason when I started both of them I've gone into them thinking, "I might not like this very much." However, each time I've been very pleasantly ... ... night. (In the past week, I've read (either on audio or in book form) a book about a wizard detective named Harry Dresden Fool Moon , Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code, about fairies and other supernatural creatures, and am halfway through HP7, about another wizard named Harry. :) I felt ... ... don't have to pay for that...and that you find out who was doing it.
Hope things go better for you.
On the upside, Fool Moon is a good book.... ... what I hope will be a big Robin Hobb binge, with the occasional other novel slipped in:
Mad Ship
Ship of Destiny
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Sula by Toni Morrison
Fool's Errand
The Golden Fool
Fool's Fate
I started Fool Moon by Jim Butcher last night. I had a bit of an issue the other day and haven't really been doing too much reading. Long story short it turns out someone was sneaking into my house last month while everyone was gone and charged $150.00 worth of porn. Very upsetting would ... Based on LT/GD references: Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.
Based on LT/GD, but also having read 2 others: Fool Moon, Harry Dresden #2 by Jim Butcher
Based on reading the Pliocene & Galatic Milieu books by Julian May, I picked up Conqueror's Moon, # 1 of a fanatsy series. I'm currently reading Fang and Fur Blood and Bone which I plan to have finished before the weekend and will be starting Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. Finished up Fool Moon and am now reading Snake Pilot, continuing the trend of alternating fiction with non-fiction. ... finished The Overlook by Michael Connelly and am in the middle of Killing Critics by Carol O'Connell. Also finished Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, the second in the series about a wizard detective from Chicago. All were/are excellent mysteries and novels. ... Currently I'm still reading my non-fic and The Off Season which is a YA novel. Up after that will probably be either Fool Moon by Jim Butcher or The Stone Prince by Gena Showalter. Over the weekend I knocked off Prador Moon and "Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity" (see reviews). Now I'm working on Fool Moon. Just finished Fool Moon, the second Harry Dresden mystery, and am torn between starting right away on the third in the series (Grave Peril) or reading one of the dozens of library books I have borrowed that are sitting on my shelf. *sigh* Decisions, decisions! Just finished Fool Moon and am madly in love (lust?) with Harry. As I said on another thread, even if Harry wasn't a powerful wizard, he'd be lovable. With his powers, he's irresistable! Anyway, while I liked Fool Moon a lot, I still like Storm Front (the only other of the series I've read) ... 66. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. 4-1/2 stars. Another winner about Harry Dresden, with whom I am now madly in love! :) Even without his wizardly powers, he'd be lovable; with them, he's irresistable! As to the story, it wasn't quite as compelling as Storm Front, though it was good, but ... Success! I had to drive to a neighboring city today and while there stopped into the B&N where I finally found Fool Moon. Bought it, of course, along with Grave Peril, as well as the hardcovers of Jonathan Strange and Killing Critics which were on the bargain shelves and which I could not ... Just started Fool Moon, Book 2 of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. ...
Today, I drove to a bookstore in a neighboring city and bought the paperbacks of Books One and Two of The Dresden Files ~ Fool Moon and Grave Peril ~ which I've been unable to find at the library or any of my local bookstores, and almost bought the other books in the series that were in ... #16 Hi, Lesa! Yep, sounds like! I'm going to hit a couple of the larger bookstores today and one or the other should have Fool Moon. If not, I guess I'm going to have to break down and buy it online. Can't wait! Just stopped by to say hi and whine a little. I haven't been able to find the second book in the series (Fool Moon) anywhere I've looked. The library doesn't have it, the local B&N doesn't have it. Two local indies and three indies I visited while on vacation two weeks ago didn't have it. I'm ... I was going to read Fool Moon by Jim Butcher but after going to the movie of the Order of the Phoenix, I decided to get out my copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to read instead. I'm actually enjoying the book more this time around. There is something to be said for not ... I was going to start Fool Moon from the Harry Dresden series but after going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at the theater I came home and immediately dug out my copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. At least now I'm excited and in the mood for the last book!
Af ... ... books. And I'm keeping them, too, since I'm certain to read them again. Glad you enjoyed Book 1; let us know how you like Fool Moon. ... them in the the order published.
Prequel - Welcome to the Jungle (Graphic Novel)
Book 1 - Storm Front
Book 2 - Fool Moon
Book 3 - Grave Peril
Book 4 - Summer Knight
Book 5 - Death Masks
Book 6 - Blood Rites
Book 7 - Dead Beat
Book 8 - Proven Guilty
"Something Borro ... Fool Moon also happens to be the first book in the series if I remember correctly. This is a thread for discussion of the book Fool Moon. I'm waiting for Fool Moon to arrive from the library. Blue Moon
Moon Magic
Moon Shadows
The Moonspinners
Fool Moon Fool Moon by Jim Butcher. I've polished off 2.5 books this week - The Jack Vance Treasury edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan, Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, and Archangel by Sharon Shin. I only managed to make it half way through the Vance story collection before giving up. I just did not care for ... ... I did manage to make my way through more than half of it. I did not enjoy either the writing style or the stories.
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Archangel by Sharon Shinn - This is one of those romance novels wrapped in a cloak of something other so it will not be stuck with the ... Moonshine by Rob Thurman
By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Moon by Night by Madeleine L'Engle ... featuring vampires is Jim Butcher's Harry dresden series.
Storm Front is the first and has only peripheral vamps, Fool moon the next has only werewolves, but all the others from Grave peril onwards, feature in varying degrees Harry's fight and alliance with the three vampire courts ... 41. Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
I loved the TV series first...Paul Blackthorne makes a great Harry and I love Terrance Mann (great singing voice, btw) as Bob!! But I'm finding that I really enjoy the books as well. I find that the adaption for the tv series is done well, tweaking things to make ... ... original, inventive, and the characters are really unique. I just finished 2, and was planning to take a "break" to finish Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, but it may just have to go back on the waiting list in favor of number three. Jonathan Stroud is in my humble opinion, an amasing author. I ... Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave peril and I'm about halfway through Summer Knight which is my favourite so far. I've just bought Proven Guilty so I'll read the rest in order to get the history right. 11- Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Book Description:
Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undead variety. You would think Chicago would have a little more action for the only professional wizard in the phone book. But lately, Harry Dresden hasn't been able ... Reading Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, the second in the Dresden Files series. Much better (and darker I think) than the series, which I gave about half an episode. Good fluff reading about a wizard in the big city solving mysteries. Also finally got around to The world is flat by Thomas L. F ... Thanks so much, StBarbarella!! <3
10. Dead Beat 424 pages
11. Proven Guilty 479 pages
Up until now, Fool Moon has been my favorite of the Dresden Files. Proven Guilty rivals it.
Part of me is relieved that I can move on to other books for now, but the other part wonders how the ... Most recently I purchased Fool Moon by Jim Butcher, The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, Moon Called By Patricia Briggs, The Radon File by Denise Vitola and Myths for the Modern Age by Win Scott Eckert. ... 416 pages
2. Dolores Claiborne 372 pages
3. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty 253 pages
4. Storm Front 336 pages
5. Fool Moon 352 pages
6. Grave Peril 378 pages
7. Summer Knight 371 pages
8. Death Masks 378 pages
9. Blood Rites 372 pages
Total: 3228 pages
Hi everyone!
It's my first day and first post at LT!
Here's what I bought today:
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher ... ... reading Dead Man Rising.
Next on my list is Firestorm which has been on list for a long time.
Just finished Fool Moon.
I'm also working on an edit of my first novel that I'm going to start pitching. There have been others, but they aren't up to snuff. It's hard to find time ...
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