Where are You in Fantasyland? : April 2010

I figured that I might as well start this month's thread...

While I'm waiting on my ER copy of The Left Hand of God to arrive, I'll be bouncing around the unincorporated villages of The Anthology Province with The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007.

Letheras in Midnight Tides.

Running from San Francisco with the Immortal Flamel The Alchemyst

Current day Chicago with Dresden. This stuff is like the circus peanuts candy of fantasy fiction.

Old Sacramento in Don't Kill the Messenger

Jumping around the world tracking unsolved mysteries with Eddie Drood in the spy who haunted me. Simon Green

not strictly fantasy, but really enjoying Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.

I re-read The Eyre Affair in order to lead a discussion at the library, and now I'm reading Lost in a Good Book because I don't want to leave the Bookworld quite yet.

I'm in NYC with the Maximum Ride kids and making notes on places to see when my sons and I go on Saturday. The toy store sounds quite cool!

I traveled through England in the 40s with King Arthur in The King and now I'm in East Carmine with Eddie in Shades of Grey.

Was in Chicago and the Yucatan in Jim Butcher's Changes.

I'm all over the place in Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy volume III.

Must have just missed seeing you, beniowa, in Chicago and the Yucatan - maybe Molly had you hidden from sight. :-)

I'm traveling through India with the Peshawar Lancers

I'm in Homana in Shapechangers by Jennifer Roberson.

I'm with the Prince of Dogs in a cathedral in Gent in Kate Elliott's Crown of Stars series.

#13: Molly is quite good at that. ;)

I just came back from an alternate 19th Century London in Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale.

It's been a long time since I picked up a book by David Gemmell and as it fits into my 1010 Category Challenge I'm now reading White Wolf.

I just left Oakland. I'm not sure where the next story takes place since I haven't started it yet. I'm reading The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and I just finished the Peter S. Beagle story, "Oakland Dragon Blues".

Villjamur in Nights of Villjamur. Best 2009 fantasy novel I have read so far (although admittedly I haven't finished it yet).

Travelling with an elf and Paksenarrion in The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon.

Wandering through Navronne and Aeginea with Valen and the Danae...Breath and Bone by Carol Berg - the sequel to Flesh and Spirit, and much more exciting.

I'm various places around the U.S. (Chicago and L.A. so far) in Tales of the Otherworld.

Just visited Thesa in Peter V. Brett's The Desert Spear. Still has the same flaws of the first book, but on the whole Spear is an improvement.

I'm back in Chicago after a trip through the NeverNever to Edinburgh in Changes. Man, Harry just never ever manages to catch a break.

I'm in the Yhelteth Empire where The Steel Remains.

Getting ready to enter the city of Sky in The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Can't wait!

I finished The Shadow Pavilion by Liz Williams. Book 4 in the Detective Inspector Chen series.

It was very good. Love more focus on badger/teakettle and love that she invented the verb teakettled.

In the Guy Kay version of early Europe/Asia Minor in Sailing to Sarantium.

I am currently hawking my stuff in the Floating Market of London Below. Read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman to understand what exactly I am talking about. :)

I just came back from San Francisco in Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire. It's a decent urban fantasy with the Fair Folk. I'll probably read the rest of the series.

Inside the Guild with Sonea, in The Magicians Guild

Alternating between Tsaia and Lyonya in troubled times.

(@#20) Gave up on Nights of Villjamur. It started outout well but concentrated too much on the less interesting plot strands.

I am travelling the industrial centres of Victorian England with James and Susan, mixing with Chartists, Communists and other undesirables in the gloriously gothic Freedom and Necessity.