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    June 2019: Reading Thread

    Currently listening to Bone Crossed, #4 in the Mercy Thompson series (this is a re-listen for me) if you don't know about it, it is a series about a woman who can turn into a coyote and was raised by werewolves and who tends to befriend everyone including vampires and fae. Funny, snarky...
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    Best and Worst Audible Narrators

    I generally forget the bad ones - the worst one I listened to was a full cast and one of the cast had such a grating voice that I couldn't handle listening to it. Good ones though, I LOVE them. Some of my favorites: Grover Gardner who does the Vorkosigan books, he is fabulous. Luke Daniels is...
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    The Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers

    I enjoyed the first two but the third I couldn't even finish. I can't even say why really. It felt wrong in some way and pointless in another - not pointless in a Quixote kind of way but pointless in a lost in the desert with no direction to go kind of way.
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    Single volume fantasy recommendations

    The Goblin Emperor and The Golden Key are two of my favorite stand alones.
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    Presenting invented hybrid cultures

    This is only peripherally related to this conversation but your Great Dane and Pomeranian example reminded me of a book I read that I could not enjoy in the least because there was a hybrid that I felt (or the author didn't convince me) wouldn't actually work. It was a meld of a humanoid and an...
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    I remember it like it was yesterday, reading...

    The Lord of the Rings (omnibus edition) - I read this while on a trip (wasn't the first time I'd read it) to Holland, Germany and France with my grandparents when I was oh, 14 or so. I was (and still am) painfully shy which was not something my grandparents could understand and they dragged me...
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    The Big Chronicles SF/F Reading Quiz

    55 But there were at least 5 of those I read that I either really disliked or didn't like enough to ever read anything by them again.
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    March 2019: Reading Thread

    I'm currently reading Her Royal Spyness but I'm not quite sure why. It was recommended to me but I'm kind of bored though I just started it. I'm also re-listening to Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold because Miles makes my commute 100% better.
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    March 2019: Reading Thread

    I picked that one up by accident a long while back, it isn't my normal type of read but I still really enjoyed it.
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    What is your single favourite novel?

    I don't have one. It is too difficult - comparing apples to oranges. I love X best because it makes me laugh. I love X best because it pulls my heartstrings and so on. Too many to pull just one to the top. I could say my favorite at this moment - which would change from day to day.
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    Short story guards playing cards in limbo waiting on perimeter breach

    It isn't right but reminds me of a book that of course I can't recall the name of but isn't Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.
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    January 2019 Reading Thread

    Currently reading The Paladin Caper by Patrick Weekes which is the third in this team fantasy adventure comedy. Also finishing up Red Seas under Red Skies on audio. Scott Lynch seems to enjoy taking his lovable characters and f-ing everything up for them for the reader's enjoyment. I mean I...
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    Why is fantasy moving towards hereditary werewolves?

    The one son (Charles) was born a werewolf due to magic. The other son was born before his father became a werewolf and I have no idea about the submissive you mention, I don't remember that one. And Mercy isn't a werewolf, she is a descendant of a Native American coyote spirit.
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    The biggest problems with Jordan's books...and why he's a weak writer.

    Well, I certainly don't believe Jordan was the best writer ever but I loved these books enough to reread them each time a new installment was published. I also can't say that I agree with too much that the OP discussed. Male and female interpersonal relationships is a big part of humanity and...
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    December 2018 reading thread

    Just finished Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and it was terrific. I listened to the audio read by Lin Manuel Miranda and he did a great job. Currently listening to Red Seas Under Red Skies on audio and reading The Lost Plot on the kindle. I've got a hardcover copy of...
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    December 2018 reading thread

    I don't know if this is your thing but I just finished Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe and it broke my heart, made me cry and then ended with happy tears.
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    Why is fantasy moving towards hereditary werewolves?

    Twilight does have werewolf families, but in all of Patricia Briggs' werewolf books lycanthropy is only spread by bite - only one character (Charles Cornick) is born a werewolf and that is because of magic. I haven't read any Kelly Armstrong and haven't heard of the others. Actually, now that I...
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    Are you addicted to books and reading?

    I definitely have a reading addiction. Perhaps not a purchasing addiction - 95% of the books I read are library books. However, my to be read list is around 3,000 titles long at this point and I continually add even as those I've read get removed. I'll never finish it. I'm not worried though, it...
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    November 2018 reading thread

    I read The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, and while the science was super dodgy, it was a fun read. I also attempted City of Stairs but I got bored. There wasn't anything really wrong with it except I didn't care to continue reading. I haven't picked up my next ebook yet. I'm...
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    Books to Movies --> what should be next?

    I wasn't aware of that - I don't tend to pay attention to that sort of thing, mostly because I'm lazy!
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