What world are you on?

I posted this on FantasyFans but thought here was an appropriate place as well!!

I thought it might be fun to find out where you are in your reading? You might be in Rivendell with the Elves, in Ankh Morpork with Rincewind or at Milliways with Zaphod and Arthur Dent........

At the moment I am on Gont with Ged, in A Wizard of Earthsea

Where are you?

This evening I'm in Hell's Kitchen with the Daredevil... it's all kinda dark and sinister, only with with a blind fella in spandex to help lighten the mood :-)

Dhiammara, This is a book I abandoned 2 years ago that I have picked up again, thats why they shouldn't be more than trilogies - this is the 4th book in a series.

On Arbre, which is a kind of parallel world to ours but that also seems to be part of our universe?
Anyway, the book is Anathem, and I'm now close to finishing this 960 page read :-)

Paraphrasing Tane - nothing lightens up the mood like a set of scientific monks and their thoughts ;-)

I am on Earth in Watchmen, nut it has an alternative history with WWIII starting up in 1985. Masked crimefighters and a superhero... fun fun!

I'm in Kingsbridge with World Without End by Ken Follett. I'm also traveling to Caemlyn in with a fasinating cast of characters in The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.

I'm on Earth, with Meditations for Cats Who Do Too Much.

Best quote: "My rational side knows that I will get fed eventually. My irrational side would like you to wake up and fill the damn bowl NOW."

I'm (still) in Kildenree with The Goose Girl, Lunacat. ^-^ I'm considering travelling to The Last Continent with Rincewind when I'm done travelling around Kildenree and Bayern with Ani.

I'm in 19th century London for The Obsidian Dagger The Further Extraordinary Adventures of Horatio Lyle and in an alternate late 20th century mid-west US for Rising Stars by J. Michael Straczynski

Bookworld with Thursday Next in First among Sequels by Jasper Fforde

I've been bouncing from Britain to Judea to Germania, but mostly I'm in Rome, with Claudius the God.

#6 GeorgiaDawn

I've recently been in Kingsbridge as well! What are you thinking of it so far?

I've also been to Caemlyn :)

#12 lunacat - I love World Without End! I thought after Pillars of the Earth that I couldn't care about the characters that much; I was so wrong. These are books that I hate to send end. I downloaded the audio version of World Without End from my local library. The narrator is very, very good. How about you? What do you think?

I'm really struggling on my trek to Caemlyn. I do NOT want to give up on this book, but I'm just not finding it interesting. I'm approximately half way through it. Should I continue?

ETA - I'm also in 18th Century Boston with Octavian Nothing.

#13 I absolutely adored World Without End. I only recently (in the last two weeks) came across Pillars of the Earth and raced through it, was gutted when it finished! So was very very pleased when I found World Without End half price while shopping!! Loved it nearly as much, the characters are brilliant in both but I think that Pillars of the Earth just stole it for me, the building of the cathedral was so interesting and the things they came up against so surprising in today's world of cranes and diggers.

I LOVED The Eye of the World, thoroughly enjoyed it but I think that unless you are willing to invest time and energy in the characters for a LONG period of time then it may not be worth it, the Wheel of Time series is a very long one, and unfinished as Robert Jordan sadly died before completing it. Even with having loved the first two, I have yet to finished the series. I think, if I knew then what I know now, I would read the first one and possibly the second, and then let my imagination finish the story!

I'm firmly grounded on Earth, but as to what time period, well, I'm all over the place. Just came back from ancient Rome by finishing Caesar and Christ, will be visiting the ancient Pueblo villas soon in the Southwest in The Delight Makers, am lingering in the South during the Civil War with Sweetsmoke and tripping all over the place during WWII with The Grand Alliance

I dropped in to Middle Earth earlier today and traveled through Moria with the Fellowship of the Ring. Not sure where I'll go next . . .

I'm stuck firmly in this world at the moment, but I'm going to some interesting places nonetheless. I'm travelling through Eastern Europe with Michael Palin in New Europe and I'm in Ukraine in 2 different time periods with Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Last night I was in Oceansend via the latest Thieves & Kings book. Today I'm in WWII-era London via The Night Watch.

I am in limbo - between books. Although I suspect I'll be visiting France during the Revolution soon.

#19 - Careful of your back there in limbo. ;)

On Disc, in Ankh-Morpork to be exact reading the last few pages of Soul Music. Coming back to earth next to Alabama to reread To Kill a Mockingbird for this year's Big Read. 8^)

Tried to get Touchstones to work but it's being wonky tonite!

I'm currently on a brief trip back to Earth, visiting Europe with Wittgenstein and Popper.

Trying out Europe in the late 1600's in Quicksilver, interesting but slow.

>22 felius: Beware of wrought iron fire pokers...

I'm in the fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry and expect to finish the next 3 years within a few weeks. It's a... erm... accelerated wizardry course.

I am in France - sometimes in the year 1209 and sometimes in the year 2005 in The Labyrinth - not exactly what I expected but it is well written.

I am at the Waystone Inn located in the Four Corners of Civilization hearing the chronicle of the Kingkiller in The Name of the Wind. I am also descending through the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno, which I wanted to read for the spooky Halloween season. Plus, I am on Earth in Norway with Kristin Lavransdatter. I am enjoying all three!
--BJ

*waves at billiejean*
I'm across the room at the Waystone Inn, listening to Kvothe's tale.

Goodness, it's probably been thirty years since I read Kristin Lavransdatter.

I am still on Earth, but now I am somewhere in the future, when North America is called the northern sprawl and you can be plugged directly into cyberspace. I am reading Neuromancer.

I'm in 15th century France with The Lady and The Unicorn. Racy little read so far.

I'm in Jhaampe in the Mountain Kingdom, just outside the Six Duchies. Later today, I may make a sojourn to the land of Mistborn, which is hitting my Kindle today.

Yay!

I'm in the near future of Earth where superheroes wronged by the US government have blockaded Chicago (Rising Stars).

I'm in early nineteenth century Greece via The Vampyre by Tom Holland.

I spent some time in the 13th reality today with Atticus Higgenbottom.

I'm on Earth, specifically in Wisconsin, in the House on the Rock, riding the world's largest carousel with Shadow, and Odin, and Mr Nancy...

This could almost have been the creation of Neil Gaiman's mind for American Gods, but no, the attraction actually exists!

I definitely want to go there some day... It's not there to be ridden, not by people. It's there to be admired. It's there to be.

#34

Went there a few years ago and I am still in awe. Everything automated..and I mean everything, right down to a full orchestra.
Check out http://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_AttractionMain.htm.
There is a kind of "cat walk" suspended out of the side of the mountain. Talk about a thrill ride.

I've left Arbre and am now at the Wayward Inn.

#35
Oh my, that catwalk! Thanks, MDLady!

#35

That place is trippy. I went there as a kid...

I am in pre-Revolution Russia with Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog.

I'm in London Below, in Gaiman's Neverwhere, at the floating market specifically - where I'm alternating between feeling very amused and sort of creeped out.

I'm on Praesitlyn, with Anakin Skywalker, in Jedi Trial.

Oooh. How are you enjoying your stay in early 19th century Greece, Xicanti?

I'm now, more or less accidentally, in Lancre with Granny Weatherwax along with being in Kildenree. Of all the Discworld series to start in the middle of...

Under the Pacific at the moment, with Captain Nemo in 20000 Leagues Under the Sea. And, in my car, I'm in Borogravia with the Monstrous Regiment.

Which is, I have to say, a rather odd combination.

I'm driving in my car in Botswana (Tears of the Giraffe, but the rest of the time I'm in France during the Revolution (The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel).

I'm dipping into the early 20th century magimechanical world of Albion, Gallia and Holmland with Aubrey and George in Heart of Gold by Michael Pryor.

#41 - Greece was wonderful, as were London and Italy after it!

I'm now dividing my time between Northumberland in the 1890s and Michigan, (I think), in the 1960's via The Faerie Door by B.E. Maxwell.

Am now in Rome, in 110 B.C with The First Man In Rome. I'm only about 75 pages in so not sure how I feel about it at the moment, but i'm interested enough to keep reading!

OK guys I am officially feeling lame!!! I'm in the kitchen *sigh* seriously, just started reading Christmas Cookies from the Whimsical Bakehouse by kaye hansen & liv hansen, Cake Love by Warren Brown and Decorating Cookies by Joanna Farrow.

**hangs head, vows to call a therapist for cookbook addiction**

Yesterday I went from Dhiammara to Cornwall and Dreamland in Rhiannon Lassiters Waking Dream, then the South Pelagic Isles in Nation - early this morning (2am after finishing nation) I went to Tir Alainn in Pillars of the world which I have abandoned in favor of a Magical Medieval europe in Blood of Elves which arrived in the post about noon.

I just returned from the Indiana wilds with The Girl of the Limberlost. Now I'm Into the Wild with Fireheart (nee Rusty, formerly Firepaw!).

>47 chezhedmom: Please don't feel lame, chezhedmom. You just made me feel a whole lot better! I confess- I read cookbooks, too. Like novels. I am glad to know I am not the only one at TGD who does this. ;-)

#47, 50

You think you're the only two?!

#47, 50 There's a whole group of us in Cookbookers! :)

I'm not traveling to the ancient Pueblos anymore (that was a great read!), but am happily using the L space in the library at Unseen University to go back and forth between Discworld Mort and my WWII book.

I was on Saha's World (?) I think from consider phlebas but I'm glad to have left it remembering as little as possible of any details including the name.

Im now in The Land or thomas covenant's head depending on how you resolve his dilemma. His suffering makes my shoulder seem more bearable, and it's good to know I've 1500 pages of complex involved detailed and compelling fantasy to get through before I need to think about anything else.

*waves at everybody in the Waystone Inn* I'm in the Commonwealth, listening to Kvothe tell his tale too.

But the waters around Krakatoa are lapping in my purse whenever I go out somewhere! ;-)

I've just wandered into Un Lun Dun, and am finding it fun and quirky, if a bit eerie and dangerous.

Well earlier in this thread i thot i'd just be in Alabama w/Scout & Jem (which is our Big Read) but i find myself in 2 other worlds as well. Traipsing across Discworld w/ Cohen & the Horde The Last Hero, & in the Land of OZ hearing the Wicked Witch of the West's side of the story Wicked. This is proving to be a potent mix for my some-times muddled brain to keep sorted out. I may have some strange dreams before this is over! 8^)

I know what you mean. At the moment, I'm in Minnesota trying to solve The Candy Cane Murder (Joan Fluke); I'm in the Thunderclan camp with Fireheart (Fire and Ice Volume 2 by Erin Hunter) looking for the missing Windclan; and I'm in South Dakota trying to unravel the truth about Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane in my new ER book Deadwood Legends.

I just close my eyes and draw blind whenever I sit down to read. Whatever comes to hand, there I go!

I have left the Wayward Inn and am now in Tokyo, by way of After Dark.

I'm stil in Rome with The First Man in Rome

I'm in the Downtown Library with Alcatraz. I'm supposed to be reading some lofty Karen Armstrong tome for the P&C(R) group, but Brandon sucked me in. Al's snarky attitude is a perfect antidiote for the Last Two Weeks of the Election blues.

And I'll probably go from there directly to the third Mistborn book, which is waiting on my Kindle. Brandon is def taking over my brain.

I am in the forest with the Twigroot and Lefgild. (Beckwood Brae)

I'm dividing my time between Thremedon and Nevers in Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett. I haven't really had a chance to sit down with it, though, and it's driving me crazy! I want to sink into this world and get involved with these characters, but life is getting in the way. Blah. Stupid life. Who needs it?I

I'm still all over the place in WWII, but I'm back from Discworld :( and in South Carolina in the 1960s with The Secret Life of Bees. I'm not loving it so much yet. Perhaps it's just the wicked sinus headache I had last night, but I'm finding it a real downer. Good writing, and I'm still reading it.

I liked The Secret Life of Bees... not on my favorites shelf, but I remember it well, which is saying something. Not a particularly uplifting story, though.

I'm now in the Middle East of Scheherazade's imagination in The Arabian Nights.

I took a holiday in Deverry last night, because it was closer than my usual book-of-the-moment. Now I'm back in Gallia again, where Holmland's plot is being defeated.

It's nearly bedtime for me (actually well past). That's when I reach for an old favorite - and head for the Mogollons with Tell Sackett.

I'm back in the Final Empire with Elend & Vin. Hooray!

I'm out of that hot, sticky, depressing Southern novel (sorry to those of you who loved it, it really depressed me), and into a lovely murder mystery at the Balaclava Agricultural College, in Maine, I think. I like poking around in the animal pens, reminds me of my childhood.

I'm on Winter now, somewhere in the Universe in The Left Hand of Darkness

I'm in Sunnydale, California with Buffy and the Buffy Omnibus vol. 4.

#68 - I envy you, my copy is still in the mail!!!
Soon there too.

ETA - haven't decided where to go in the meantime. Left Tokyo yesterday...

#72 - Mine is in the mail too - has been for a couple of weeks. I hope it's not lost. =(

Meanwhile I'm in 20th century Illinois with a genius teenager who just wants to be normal in Life After Genius by M. Ann Jacoby. Afterwards I think I'll hop back to medieval England with The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick.

#72 So far it's really good. Starts with a big action sequence. Brandon is so much better at writing those than Robin Hobb.

*covers her eyes*
No spoilers, please...!? Even if it's as modest as this one I've looked forward to this concluding book so much I don't even want to know how many pages it is ;-)

I've been studying at Roke island with Sparrowhawk. I read the first book in the series three years ago, and have had the SFBC omnibus sitting on my shelf for the past two years, and finally decided to pick it up.

actually I'm on a murder investigation in Vermont! In springtime

I'm in Pennsylvania hunting vampires with David Wellington in Vampire Zero.

I'm hanging out between books trying to decide what to pick up next. I just finished Austenland, and was thinking about going back in a time-between-times and reading The Paradise War.

79 - Oh, I enjoyed that trilogy of Lawhead's. The Paradise War was good, although the last couple of pages did throw me off a little.

I'm temporarily back in Japan, in medieval times, in Warriors of medieval Japan, while waiting for Hero of Ages to make it's way to my hand.

#80 agree it's a very odd ending to the trilogy, but the firsy 2 1/2 books are some of the best celtic fantasy around. Definetly be a very long margin the best of Lawhead's work.

I'm still in the Land, now onto Power that preserves and Thomas is in whine mode for the rest of the book. Definetly the darkest of the three.

Next up will be Riven Kingdom (forget what world that is) and the good news is Waterstones has finally shipped Ships of merior Hurray! so I'll be deep into those three fpr a while!

I'm tromping through the seven kingdoms in Graceling by Kristin Cashore. I've had a great stay so far.

I made it out of the French Revolution with my head still attached, thanks to the Scarlet Pimpernel. Now I'm about to jump into 1920's England with Daisy Dalrymple in Black Ship. And if I'm lucky I'll start off an adventure in some medieval sort of fantastic land with The Shamer and her daughter, if the library will oblige me there.

I haven't read enough to be sure yet, but I think I'm in southern California in a surreal fantasy called Hidalgo's Beard.

I'm back in late Victorian (almost steampunk) Albion with Word of Honour by Michael Pryor.

I'm in Walt Disney World, reading guidebooks and getting ready for a trip there in 21 days! :)

Hey Atomicmutnt fellow KIKN member. Long time no see. Is this your first trip to Walt Disney World? Enjoy your trip and have a great time.

I'm in New York City with Repairman Jack getting ready to save the world. At least, we hope so. By the Sword

I'm in England..............1666 and I might be going to catch the plague in Year of Wonders

#80 & 82- I'm glad. I really like Lawhead's books, and am excited to get into this series. Thanks for letting me know.

I learned something about myself today. I don't care for surreal fantasy, dropped that like a bombshell, and now I'm tagging along with Father Tim in his red convertible in Holly Springs, Mississippi reliving his childhood angst in Home to Holly Springs.

I managed to avoid flying pokers. I've just arrived in Amsterdam, with a robot kitten and an awesome pair of glasses.

Spent the weekend in Bookworld with Lost in a good Book, and am noe Heaven-knows-where with Voices by Ursula le Guin (wonky touchstone), both courtesy Hillcrest Public Library.

Just left 1688 England from Quicksilver and Tonight I plan to take off with Danny Birt's Ending an Ending, though not sure what the destination actually is.

I thought about taking a trip through Ireland and Massachusetts with The Lighthouse Keeper, but I changed my mind because the company was a little too sappy. So I'm currently stuck here. Unless I'm in my car - then I'm stuck in a virtual reality world trying to conquer the kingdom or face certain death in Heir Apparent.

Just left Central City, West Texas with The Killer Inside Me. That was a scary visit. Have nothing else to read right now so I guess I'm currently homeless.

Just started a revisit to the Final Empire. Currently covered with ash.
(The Hero of Ages)

I've finished my sojourn in the seven kingdoms; it was fantastic! I'm definitely looking forward to more from Kristin Cashore.

Next, I'm off to the wilds of Fabled-up America in the company of Jack of Fables. After that, it's off to early nineteenth century England via Victory of Eagles.

I'm still on Earth, and still in ancient Rome. This is the fourth book in a row! It started with the Robert Graves books, I, Claudius and Claudius the God. Now I'm shifted to Conn Iggulden's Emperor series. I finished Gates of Rome, and now I'm into Death of Kings.

My work is done in Holly Springs, MI, so I am back in Massachusetts with Prof. Shandy Something the Cat Dragged In, trying to figure out just what that thing is the cat has. Ewwww.

Finished witht he Land, I'll (re)read the Second chronicles when I finally buy Fatal Revenant which is recently out in paperback.

I'm now in Majak with He'kat (hellcat) and Empress, Karen Miller writes superb characters if you've not tried her before.

I have so many things to be read, I really don't know where I'll go next. Right now I'm tending the roses in the glasshouse at the Beast's palace in Rose Daughter. I'm kinda eying Flora's Dare for my next read -- so look for me in Califa in the next couple of days!

Ooh, Califa! I was there at the beginning of the month, and I miss it like crazy. I can't wait to go back. Have you read any of Wilce's other stuff?

How do you like it so far, Busifer? No spoilers, tho. ;-)

I'm in the land of Isteria, with Apropos of Nothing, squire to Sir Umbrage of the Flaming Nether Regions (created by Peter David).

I've just arrived on Island, the setting for The Unnameables. Looks good so far.

#105 - I dunno... not as good as the previous two, imho... But interested in discussing it. If no one else starts a discussion thread on it I'll start one when I'm finished reading.

#108 I know what you mean, but I'm anticipating the "Brandon avalanche." The last third of his books is always a roller coaster.

#109 - Same here. I've only gotten halfway through, so...

Well, due to the influence of many of my friends here, I am visiting Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Now if I don't like it, at least I can say I tried it. I'm going to read the next one too, even if I don't care for this one.

Busifer, I finished The Hero of Ages. Check out my review.

Not sure what i'll read next.

Thanks. I'll read it when I've finished reading the book, though... ;-)

You're such a fast reader, I was sure you'd have beaten me!

I've had three days in a row without opening the book, just because I was so tired I fell asleep instead... at 0900 PM. But I'll finish it soon enough :-)

i was in a bookstore this morning. Has anyone read Mansfield Park Revisited?

Isn't time a funny thing? I listened to one of the Harry Potter books on tape years ago when they first came out and didn't care for it at all. This time, reading it, I quite enjoyed it. Huh. Anyway, I'm still at Hogwarts with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

I'm at Camp Half-Blood, where things are not so good right now.
The Sea of Monsters

I seem to be wandering the streets of London in Lonely Werewolf Girl. I'd sort of intended to read a smaller paperback next, since I'm getting pretty tired of lugging larger books around, but I just couldn't stay away from this one. It feels good in my hand, and I've heard scads of good things about it.

I'm on earth, on an imaginary island near Cornwall with Adam Dalgliesh (don't tell my husband!) in The Lighthouse, by P.D. James.

I just dipped into dreamworld. I'm trying out Sandman, starting naturally with Preludes and Nocturnes. Wow! It's quite intense. I understand why this got Neil Gaiman so much attention.

I am in Venice with Bassanio and Antonio in The Merchant of Venice.

Things got weird (but in a good way) and the cat transcended (probably).

I've just begun my career in the Royal Navy, and am the bearer of a remarkably unfortunate name.

Horatio, by any chance?

*donning my sunglasses - dramatically*

I'm in the Old West solving a mystery with Big Red and Old Red, who are trying to make a career of detectifyin'.

On The Wrong Track

I'm in 1860s New England with Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.

I'm still in a time-between-times with The Paradise War, but I keep taking small visits to Alagaesia in Brisingr.

#124 - LMAO!!!
Sorry.
It's too funny!

I'm in Cornwall with a bunch of wacky spies in Touchstone.

I'm on Eld Mountain with The Forgotten Beasts of Eld which I've been wanting to read for AGES!!!!!!!!

Rushed through Majik and am now some unspecified town in the 60s? USA with some Cat Who cosies but they are so short I won't be for long.

reading_fox: You're somewhere north of everywhere.

I'm in Turai for a short trip with Thraxas while I wait for a couple of things to arrive in the mail.

132 MerryMary

it's 400 miles north of everywhere, as I recall ;)

I love those books.

Me, too.

I'm in the United States of American again. Finally. Yes We Can!

I finally graduated from Hogwarts with a N.E.W.T. in "skivving off" and celebrated with a trip to see an old friend who's new again, Paul of Dune. Unfortunately, I didn't have the prescience to see how bad the trip would be - those who do not learn from reading Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are doomed to read their crap again. Thankfully, I caught a Heighliner back to Earth and am about to embark on a trip to the New World with a group of Wordy Shipmates called Pilgrims. Hopefully this won't make me seasick.

I'm in 20th-century Toledo, Spain, with Lucas Corso, who's about to embark on a journey through Portugal and France to find the secrets of "The Book of the Nine Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows," in The Club Dumas.

I'm dipping into Breckwood Brae (come on, touchstone!), and I'm looking forward to seeing the outcome.