Gah thread is dead. > o <;;
Haven't been reading as much lately. Dx
Toooo busyyyy.

I haven't read hardly at all lately myself.

Gah, I think I'd like my hangout to be up again.... even though there are more hangouts like this since I went on hiatus. > o <
So ya, trying to make it a bit active again, so anyone wanna post? o 3o;

I have read Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey since I last posted here.

I liked it. She is a favorite author of mine.

Ah, so you think it's worth it to pick up some of her books then? :]

I got a new book recently but I haven't been reading it so much. I'll probably get back to it this week.
The latest Mortal Instruments book, City of Fallen Angels, by Cassandra Clare. That's pretty much my reading book atm. :3

I think I have only heard the title of that book.

What is it about?

Well it's a series. It's more or less an urban fantasy type of story.
The main people it focuses on are called Shadowhunters, which at the root are supposed to be a sort of mixture between angels and humans, but not in the sense that some angels went and made babies with humans lol.
There are a variety of other creatures and what-not, which are called Downworlders. These include faeries, warlocks, werewolves, and vampires.
That's the basic world I guess, and it would take me forever to sum up the plot so unless you want to read a ton of my babbling then there you go. xD

Interesting. I may read that series.

I enjoy it. c:
There's really a lot more to it than that but ya, it actually gets a bit confusing at times. But maybe I just need to reread the first three to remember everything.

So then what's up? How've you been?

I'm good. Not too much is up with me.

Ya same here. Though I do have some things I need to get done.
I think I'm gonna go wash some dishes soon... gotta get that done ugh.

I'm probably going to have to go to dinner soon.

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• YAY. I HAVE A NEW MEW THREAD TO STALK.
  
  I'll list all the books I have later, when I get back from swimming and such. And then... mark the most awesome ones for you guys to read and gush about with me. <3

Sounds like a great plan.

I love reading fantasy novels.

I'll have to see about reading some more of them.

*Wanders into thread.*

Been eyeballing this place for a while but never really had much to say. Don't really have a lot to say right now but I'm dropping in anyway. :).

I used a read quite a bit but not so much lately, especially since university. I have backlog of reading that I intend to do, some left over from courses that I'm finished with but I insist on finishing some of the books.

I'm a fantasy reader but lately most of what I am liking has been written prior to 1950, some around the turn of the century. I haven't really found a contemporary author that I'm actively persuing at all. I have one Mercedes Lackey book that I thought I'd give a try but haven't started that one yet. My reading pile is currently as follows:

Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tales from Firozha Baag, Rohinton Minstry
Out of Africa, Karen Blixen
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein
The Silmarillion, JRR Tolkein
Newton's Cannon, Greg. Keyes

I'm sure there are others that I've forgot but these are the ones that come to mind. I may ditch a couple for later seeing as I've only made tiny inroads into the last three. I've never seen any writer as italic-happy as Gregory Keyes.

Tolkien is great. <3 I really like the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.

I just got my copy of Tall, Dark and Dead by Tate Halloway. I can't wait to start itttttttt. <3

I think I have heard of that one, but I have not read it.

Believe or not, I'm actually not the biggest fan of Tolkein as far as his writing goes. He puts a great world and story together, but he still writes like an English professor. There are authors I like better for their writing but Tolkein's stories generally make up for it.

so i am going to feel a little dumb but i want to know, is it only published works we talk about here? because i am not really into talking about non-fiction and food books but i don't know what the feeling is here about web-lititure like....well fanfiction and self-published fiction

I mostly know fantasy and YA novels that have major publication.

I don't mind if you talk about fan fiction, but I may not have any idea of what stories you are mentioning since I have hardly read any.

I imagine self-published stuff would be fine, since sites like LuLu are devoted to the practice and word of mouth is one way the market gets bigger. Anything posted online is usually considered 'self published' also for the purposes of publication to most magazines, when considering works submitted to them.

Yeah, fan fiction could be a little tough if people aren't familiar with the subject it's based on.

Those are my thoughts anyway.

I started reading Airs Beneath the Moon by Toby Bishop today.

It is rather good so far.

Never heard of it, or the author I don't think. He doesn't sound familiar.

It is a fantasy novel that came out almost five years ago.

It has winged horses in it. <3

Fairly standard for a fantasy book. :). Do they have a special role in the story or are they just there for flavour?

Slightly standard fantasy story. : An uplands farm peasant girl bonds with a newborn winged foal, so she has to go to the Academy of the Air and learn to be a horsemistress. Usually only the daughters of nobles bond with them. The horses only allow (virgin) women to ride them and do not allow men (adult males) to approach them too close. However, the new Duke - who is in charge of the horses - is jealous of the horsemistresses' independence from his control and freedom to fly. He wants to bond with a winged horse, and was trying to breed one in secret to start his own flying academy. That foal he was breeding was the one the girl bonded with. That is why the Duke hates her in particular. Plus he is taking potions that are starting to turn him into a woman - just to let you know how nuts the Duke is.


I suppose he should have just tried being a eunuch. It might have been easier and quicker. XP I have started reading the second book in the trilogy. I'll have to see about getting the third.

Reminds me of a similar story I read but it dealt with sort of pseudo magical horses instead. The story was that only men could ride them (medieval basis here) but the horses figure that't just male human drivel. They are telepathic but find it difficult to talk to humans because of our complicated brains. The bad guy in the story attempts to gain one these horses for a mount but after crippling him, it casts itself off a cliff rather than let the man ride him. It wasn't bad for a book I got at a garage sale. I can't remember the title, something like "Dark Horse" (typical, I know) but the horses in question were called Hunnulis and were all black with a lighting bolt mark on their shoulder. Can't remember the author either. I'm not proving very helpfull here it seems.

The heroine is a girl that disguises herself as a boy (also typical in a sense) so that she may claim revenge for her dead clan herself rather than depending on a male relative to take up her cause and do it for her.

*Checks Amazon.*

Yup. It looks like Dark Horse by Mary Herbert.

I have the books in the series. ^.^

It's a series? I only had the one book which I snagged from a garage sale. I didn't know it was part of a series.


EDIT: so it is. These might be the kind of things that are good for e-readers, since they aren't easy to find in book form. I might start looking for some of the others. I gave away Dark Horse long ago.

EDIT EDIT: damn! not in my reader store. Oh well. One more book to add to the used book store search.

Amazon used --

Old paperback : $1

Shipping : $4.99

Reading amusement : Priceless.

I like digging stuff up myself rather than going online. Call me old fashioned. Plus, we have buckets of credit at a local used book store. I'm currenly on the lookout for anything by Erich Maria Remarque.

I'm too eclectic.

I like fantasy novels and not enough come in for me to get the ones I want.

I have not bought books for a while, though.

There are a few series ends I should track down.

I have books all over the place. I started reading a Forgotten Reams series by Elaine Cunningham, Elfshadow, Elfsong, Silver Shadows, Thornhold, and (I think) The Dreamspheres. I've read the first three but haven't read Thornhold yet, though I have it somewhere.

I had a book by the sister of Anne Rice, apparently, but I had it for years and finally decided to toss it since I hadn't really looked at it. I've started checking out reviews of some books since I need to trim my collection a bit, and preferably add books that I'd actually read.

The last book I bought wasn't fantasy actually. I dug up a copy of David Malouf's The Imaginary Life after looking around for a couple years (read Remembering Babylon in Uni).

I have bookshelves filled with fantasy novels. XD

What is the Imaginary life about?

I'm not entirely sure. It was recommended to me by a classmate while studying Remembering Babylon, which deals with a white man raised by aboriginees in colonial Australia, who then finds his way back into a whilte settlement.

My bad, it's called An Imaginary Life. Here's the inside cover details from Amazon:

"In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impale their dead and converse with the spirit world.Then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once cataloged the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it."

I recall from my Ancient Greek Relgion class that Ovid was generally considered a writer of smut at the time. His stuff was considered improper or banned reading for students, which naturally means that everyone had to get their hands on it. ;). Thus, his works still survive and what might have been "proper" or "worthy" reading has disappeared into history.

le high. How fares thee?

Hello, all. ^.^

Hummm. I do not recall a lot about Ovid, but that does sound like an interesting book.

I haven't read much of him either. I only know that he wrote the story about Apollo and Daphne, adding cupid to the story. Apollo was struck by cupid's arrow after he insulted his bow. Apparently Ovid like to make fun of the gods and show them as prone to the same foibles that human's had, or so I've read in the odd time I've looked it up.