Where are you in fantasyland? September 2025

I'm looking forward to returning to Cyador with From the Forest
Alternating with time in Jerusalem with the 2nd horseman of the apocalypse, War

I've left Navola after an uneven visit, and am now in Sargassa where the Romans discovered and settled North America.

I am in a land that I don't recall the name of, but is certainly not Victorian England, for Tooth and Claw.

I'm back to the Witchlands for Windwitch.

I'm in Japan, traveling from China, with The Fox Wife.

In Esperana/Al-Rassan in The Lions of al-Rassan.

I am currently in Archon's Glory and surrounding environs with Paladin's Hope and Paladin's Faith.

I'm a bit behind. Let's see; first I travelled to The Bridge Kingdom (interesting concept of an archipelago nation connecting 2 continents by means of an enclosed bridge built by ancients and facilitating/ controlling trade through it), then moved on to Victiorian England to search for The Ravenswood Witch and then on to the Archipelago of Dreams for The Search for the Red Dragon.

I'm now on the ark of Pole investigating The Missing of Clairedelune.

I'm in the Territory again, in The Cold Eye (second in The Devil's West series). Gilman is skillfully practicing the "protagonist-confronting-powerful threats they don't understand, with powers not learned yet" subgenre -- pioneered lo these many years ago by Andre Norton. I'm enjoying it.

I finally finished The Veiled Throne which is the 3rd installment in the Dandelion Dynasty series. The last third was very sloggy, and I made the tough decision to move away from the series. I can't invest my limited reading time in another 1000 pages.

In a big change of pace, I'm doing what all the cool kids are doing and just started Dungeon Crawler Carl.

Also, FWIW, The Long Walk movie was excellent! Extremely brutal and tough to watch, but very well done, and I like the movie ending better than the book ending.

I'm back to Ankh-Morpork for The Fifth Elephant.

I'm in Fiellan with Greenwing and Dart where Hal and Jemis plan to make Bee Sting Cake for the Dartington Faire baking competition.

Back in the world of The Last Unicorn, reading The Way Home

Still in Cyador with Aliakal'alt. Finished Overcaptain and working on Sub-majer's Challenge.

Somewhere in England with The Book Eaters.

Returning to the "Gas-Lit Empire" with The Queen of All Crows.

I’m somewhere Dreadful with, apparently, the Dread Lord Gavrax. The problem is that he’s been struck with amnesia so neither of us know much more than that.

ETA: He's discovered that he does have a castle - but he finds the decor somewhat ... tacky.

I'm back in Qazal, re-reading C.L. Clark's The unbroken (and book 2) just before the release of the last in the trilogy next week!

I am in upstate New York and the land of Fillory with The magicians.

I'm just stepping into what I think is a final trilogy in a group of three trilogies related to the "Land of the Game"... I haven't read the first two trilogies, but I've had The End of the Game omnibus sitting (unread) on my shelves (and more recently, in boxes in my basement) since the late 80's when I got it from the "Science Fiction Book Club" where you got something like 12 books for $2 if you signed up for the monthly "club".

When I went looking for a "published in the 80's" book for Fantasy bingo square, this came to mind as the perfect reason to dig it out and finally give it a read.

Double post

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