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Wulfa_Coldheart



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently broke so can't afford anything new to read... looking over my collection and thinking about what to read.

Might try the Raven again, or perhaps Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. Also thinking of re-visiting the first few Dresden File novels as my girlfriend is currently reading them and I can't remember what happened in some of them.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently reading 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova, about half way through and enjoying it so far!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Currently reading Lord of the silver bow. no need to say who it's by. Well except he's a legend.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Elizabeth George - What came before he shoot her

Can't say much, yet
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have just finished "Tailchaser's Song" by Tad Williams. It's pretty old, but I met Tad at a con a few weeks ago and heard him talk about it, so I decided to read it. Very sweet little novel about cats, and as I'm a cat person, that's enough.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Currently reading 'The Historian' by Elizabeth Kostova, about half way through and enjoying it so far!


Took me a while, but I did end up enjoying the Historian quite a lot.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the Historian on my shelf to read but it's down the list after fantasycon. Currently on Druss the legend, then it'll be The Intruders by Michael Marshall, then Anansi Boys. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still on 'Myrren's Gift' and getting more and more bored by the page.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dead Beat - Jim Butcher. Pretty good so far. Mystery/supernatural stuff. Anyone else come across him?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just couldn't resist: Yesterday 'Tintentod' was released and I bought it Rolling Eyes it's the last book of Cornelia Funke's new trilogy (the first two books were even translated in English, rare honour for a german writer Very Happy they're calle Inkheart and Inkblood).

I read the first 100 pages so far and really liked them although it seems as if I forgot most things that happened in the 2nd book Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Evil or Very Mad Is it me or is there a serious lack of appreciation for teaching people historical facts these days?
I've once again caught a snippet of a book about the mythologies used in Harry Potter and there is a monumental blunder in at least one of the 'facts' included.

This being the character 'Fenrir Greyback', named after a wolf in Norse mythology. Correct.
It then goes on to say that Fenrir is the wolf that will swallow the sun at Ragnarok. WRONG! Fenrir is the wolf that kills Oden at Ragnarok and is then subsequently killed by the avenging son of Oden, Vidar.
The wolf that swallows the sun at Ragnarok is 'Skoll'.

*walks off shaking head, frowning and muttering.*
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm currently reading Carnacki: The Ghost Finder. It's a collection of stories originally printed back in the 1900s in magazines. It's really a supernatual version of Sherlock Holmes. Quite clever and forward thinking though.

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Dead Beat - Jim Butcher. Pretty good so far. Mystery/supernatural stuff. Anyone else come across him?


I'm quite a fan of Butcher's Dresden series. I've read all but the latest book as it only seemed to get a limited hardback UK release and I didn't have the money to buy it at the time. They are a fun read with a developing story arc and a well detailed world.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Finished Tintentod (it was really great). Back to What came before he shoot her, besides I've startet to listen to the Homeland-Audiobook Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just finished reading Laurell K. Hamilton's 'Micah' last night. I usually can't stand her stuff so it was a nice surprise to actually enjoy this collection of short stories. I've written a review, in rhyming couplets for some strange reason, Here Wink
Right now I've got Robin McKinley's 'DragonHaven' and Naomi Novik's 'Empire of Ivory' on the go Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Welcome to the foum. That was an entertaining review Laughing
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