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Reading Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, The Outstretched Shadow and To Light a Candle by Mercedes Lackey, finished, and a couple of Carol Higgins Clark paperbacks. Lackey and the paperbacks read very fast but Ondaatje I tend to save for reading when I have time to pay attention.
... am currently reading the birth book, becoming a mother, diary of a baby, what to expect when you're expecting, and the outstretched shadow. looking at that list, I need to work on finishing one book before picking up another. ... comes out.
If you like this series, you should really try the Obsidian trilogy set in the same world. It starts with The Outstretched Shadow. ... of aesthetic pleasure in creating them, for like ornamental writing they were pretty in an austere, yet baroque fashion.
The outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
Does any1 else thing that sentence in either overly wordy or just badly punctuated??? ... I held off starting anything til sat evening coz mum & I were goin to her house for a tupperware party, anyhoo, she lent me The outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory & although some of it seems a bit overwritten or underedited to me, I'm enjoying the main character & the ... ...
I have been told on numerous ocassions that Mercedes Lackey is a good read and a leading fantasy author.
Thus I read The outstretched shadow with some anticipation.
The story centres around Kellen, a young man in the Mage City that has to learn a lot about himself, life and the world. It ... ... Wicked as a YA book, but I could not get through it either and friends of mine raved about it for months.
Finally, The Outstretched Shadow : The Obsidian Trilogy: Book One (Obsidian Trilogy) by Mercedes Lackey and I LOVE everything else I've ever read by Lackey. This one was just too ... ... 1. Blood and Chocolate left a bad, bad taste in my mouth - pun thoroughly intended. YA werewolf novel. Yuck!
2. The Outstretched Shadow : The Obsidian Trilogy: Book One (Obsidian Trilogy) by Mercedes Lackey. I love everything I have ever read by Lackey up until this book. I tried ... ... It was also really interesting to observe the 'structure' of the chess game & how the event slotted in. Fun.
40. The Outstretched Shadow - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory (711pp)
This was a reread in preparation for me starting the 'new' trilogy that's out from them. Unfortunately ... ... the whole thing of not really describing the details of the horror - Lovecraft does it a lot better though.
35. The Outstretched Shadow - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
36. To Light a Candle - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
37. When Darkness Falls - Mercedes Lackey & James Mal ... ... Wandering Fire and The Darkest Road.
Mercedes Lackey also has some good trilogies, including the Obsidian Trilogy, (The Outstretched Shadow, To Light A Candle, and When Darkness Falls), The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy, (Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise and Magic's Price), and The Hera ... Demons figure very prominently in The Outstretched Shadow, To Light a Candle, and When Darkness Falls all by Mercedes Lackey. Just a note, but the beginning on the first book was a bit slow in my opinion. It gets better quickly though! ... common either.
From literature, I love the name Melisande from Jacqueline Carey and Idalia from Mercedes Lackey The Outstretched Shadow.
Good luck!
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Stitch 'N Bitch by Debbie Stoller
The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
Thieves & Kings, volumes 1-5 by Mark Oakley
I know the last one's sort of a cheat, but the ... Definitely the Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory: The Outstretched Shadow, To Light A Candle and When Darkness Falls.
March isn't quite over yet, though, and if I manage to finish all five volumes of Thieves & Kings by the end of the month I think I'll ... ... Green Dragon patrons enjoy Kay's work. I'm looking forward to diving into it pretty soon.
For now, I'm almost done with The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, which I'm enjoying quite a bit, and I've just begun Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson as ... ... else" was a fun YA graphic novel about a little girl who discovers she's got pirate blood, which I finished last night, and The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. ... the third or remaining really let me down. The latest this happened to me was for the Mercedes Lackey Obsidian Trilogy. The Outstretched Shadow and To Light a Candle were fabulous. When Darkness Falls sucked so bad it was listed under "sucked" in the dictionary. ... Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - electronic
47. Aesop's Fables by Aesop - electronic
48. The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory - keeper My next three are:
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge
Unless I get distracted, which is entirely likely... ...
Mistress of Dragons - Margaret Weis
Harry Potter #3 - J. K. Rowling
The Quantum Rose - Catherine Asaro
The Outstretched Shadow - Mercedes Lackey
And yesterday at Barnes & Nobel I got the omnibus edition of The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop. I already had ... ... sale:
Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella
Elvenbane by Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton
The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
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