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Ah, yes, that Bye Bye Baby author has something special going there! DCI Jack Hawksworth too delicious - can't wait for book 2. Thanks, Seanie, for trying my favourite fantasy in the whole world. I'm yet to find another that moves me to tears as that one does....each time I read it! I got very upset with the ending that only the readers learn the great secret, and not the main characters. Aaaarrrggghhh!

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I am reading Revenge (Trinity : Book two) almost finished

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I am reading Valisar   

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That's just cheeky Fiona! I've read alot of books since i last posted. Naughty me. Been busy. Rereading all the books i liked as a teenager, it's been interesting. Reread the Tower and the Hive series and They crystal Singer Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. Which i think i enjoyed more now then I did then. Jennifer Fallon's new book, which was a tantalising read. I also have Isobelle Carmody's Obernewton series sitting on my desk...waiting to be read but I got really really really really angry when i found out she has once AGAIN postponed the release.... from november to Feb 2008. I'm sooooooooooooooooo angry....

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) - 8/10

The Spellsinger Series (Alan Dean Foster) - 7.5/10

Odalisque & Emissary (You-Know-Who) - 9/10

Guards! Guards! (Terry Pratchett) - 7/10

I'd love to give you details on my thoughts etc on these books, but I typed said description just a few minutes ago, pressed the wrong button, and lost it in cyberspace. And frankly, I can't be bothered doing a whole re-write of it (not that I have time, anyways). So, my rankings will have to do.

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See normally i would have something to read seeing as im nearly finished exams and im gonna have a load of time up my sleeve to read... but stupid annoying bookshops (and i mean all of them) dont freakin have Jennifer Fallons 'Gods Of Amyrantha'... NO FAIR!

Lol so now ive got it ordered from angus and robertson and am waiting for them to ring...

 

awww no fun... i hate missing out

... im slightly annoyed, sorry 

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I've read a fair bit since I was here last, the ones that have stuck in my head most are:
Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori which I loved, so different, I'd never imagined a fantasy in a japanese setting before, it was beautiful & i cried my eyes out at the end of the last book!
Alison Croggon's The Gift, The Riddle & The Crow, I got a bit confused coz the start of the book had a passage that seemed to say the story was based on actual ancient text that had been dug up recently. & I got a bit annoyed coz I didnt realise that the story isnt finished yet (its funny, I just expect fantasies to be 3 books, lol) & I have to wait til next year for the final installment, but I loved it as well.

I'm nearly finished Sean McMullen's Voyage of the Shadowmoon which is very differrent to what I'd normally read, but I am enjoying it anyway. I'd call it a fantasy, but it has sci fi elements & i'm not sure if the writing is a bit disjointed or if its just that I find the sci fi parts confusing...

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Well...i just finished reading "Goddess" and it was awesome....started "the serpent bride" by Sara Douglass

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Thank you so much, Aaron....for reading it and especially for enjoying it. x

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im taking a break from fantasy... i know.... shock horror.... but im only going a little way down the road... kate mosse's new one is a gr8 read...

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I finished Percheron early this week, loved it, loved how it kept us guessing right to the very end

I'm reading Jane Yolen's Pit Dragon Trilogy at the moment, it YA fiction so a good easy fun read

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Just finished reading Stephen Donaldson's "Fatal Revenant" in the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

I'm now reading "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Marukami (forgot how to spell the name)

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I've just finished reading Tigana.  Such beautiful prose and fantastic character development.  It's good to see authors developing characters that are not simply all good or all evil, but examining human motivations and accepting that sometimes good people do bad things and vice versa.

It gets two thumbs up from me. 

 

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Just finished "A Clockwork Orange" and have got to say it was a pretty good book despite all the controversary and sketchy subject matter. It is always a very useful tool for someone studying a dystopian future for their own writing, as I know it has helped mine. Also seen the movie, bought it for ten dollars at JB Hi-Fi, and have to say Kubrick captured it brilliantly. Definitely reccomend it.

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I'm reading The Whisperer! But I'm about to start Bernard Cornwell's latest - Sword Song.

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Finished "the serpent bride" by Sara Douglass...was good, now have to wait for the other two in the trilogy *sigh*

Read "the husband" by Dean Koontz....pretty good

Now reading "Area 7" by Matthew Reilly....good and great to read...but very far fetched at times...i guess after all it's meant to be an action movie in book form.

Next it'll be: "IT" by Stephen King then i might return to some fantasy

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  Finished reading Goddess of course (please visit the site and contribute to the new discussion thread) and also the ARC version of -  The Rise of the Blood Royal - Robert Newcomb - interesting to see the editorial / publisher's changes to the ARC once I get a copy of the hardcover. 

While not perceived as conventional - I also read and collect vintage cookbooks - most recent one History and recipes of medieval islamic cuisine - and a great one of Northern Africa regions.  Tell someone that you read cookbooks and the conversation obout favourite reading material stops dead - no-one even asks about it. Their loss. One of my favourites is based on Medieval Poland - the book was banned by Soviet Russia - yes a cookbook - but with the assistance of friends who risked their lives to smuggle pages of the manuscript out - it found its way to the US where it was finally published and is now a collectors item - it is not just a list of ancinet ingredients and food but an inspirational story of amazing persistence and courage - a history of more than food. Nothing like the generally simple formats of todays cookbooks - a really good read.  Who can forget the Elixers of Nostradamus....or Roman feasts ... or herbal tisanes and potions... great wealth of information and background for my book too.... 

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That book sounds amazing, Am.

I've just finished Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.  This was the third book in the YA vampire series that began with Twilight.  I've got to say that the books are just getting better and better.  Her prose is exquisite and the sexual tension between the triangle of teenagers (well, young adults) is beautifully handled. These books are dialogue rather than plot-driven, with well developed, realistic characters.

i'd be happy if I could write half as well. 

Mdx

 

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Sounds great - I might seek it out. Vampires are back in - I love the new series Moonlight..

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Oh, Moonlight! I just love the combination of tasty vampire and the sort of noir style it has. Oh, I meant tasteful. I swear.

I'm a little behind the times because I decided to wait until Goddess came out before reading the first two. I'm in the middle of Emissary at the moment. Naturally I'll follow that up with Goddess, then maybe something other than fantasy, just for a change of pace. I'm not sure what just yet. It's a toss-up at the moment between some sort of classic and some sort of gore-fest.