Ahira's Hangar

I have fallen in love with the artwork in this little graphic novel.

I have been reading Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann.

It is pretty cool! When a shepherd in Ireland is murdered, his flock of sheep decide to solve the crime.

Now that sounds like it could be really cheezy, but the author does a great job with it. The sheep talk to each other, but not to humans. And she does a great job conveying experiencing the world as much with your senses of smell and taste as much as vision and hearing.

And she does a great job devloping the more important sheep characters, and givign them real personalities. Better than some authors do with human characters.

And the ram named Othello is a great badass sheep.

Servant of the Empire Feist / Wurts.

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Moon Called by Patricia Briggs. Despite having a hideous cover that has little to nothing to do with the contents, the book itself it actually pretty good. It is about a half Native American shapeshifter named Mecedes (Mercy) Thompson. She can switch back and forth between human and coyote forms at will.

Echoes of the Great Song by David Gemmel.

--A

I just finished what I believe to be a debut novel called Hounding the Moon by P. R. Frost. It is about a best selling fantasy novelist named Tess Noncoire, who has a secret identity as a warrior of the Sisterhood of the Celestrial Blade Warriors (i.e. she is a demon slayer, life bonded with a sarcastic runt of an imp named Scrap). The story mixes in some Native American mythology. It was more than a bit over the top in places, but was still fun enough that I will read a sequel if one is ever released.

Over the next week or so I will be frantically skimming/reading Naomi Novik's Tereraire books (historical fantasy set in the Napoleanic Wars with dragons making up the Aerial Corps) and Donaldson's TCTC books - both of those series have new books coming out soon!

In the middle of Lord Foul's Bane right now...

Rereading the first four Malazan books, before moving to the fifth. Currently in the middle of Deadhouse Gates.

I love books 2-4, but do not even get me started on how much I dislike Midnight Tides.

It still amazes me that after rereading the Covenant books by Donaldson so many times, new things still strike me.

I know what you mean. I sometimes get concerned that I won't feel the awe from a new book that I've felt so often. Silly, really, but I sometimes worry about that. Then something like Malazan comes along, and all is right in the world!

I'll let you know if I agree when I get to it. That is, when I get to it again. I realized the entire time I was reading 1-4 that it was too much, and that I needed to start over again at some point. But I couldn't stop!!! But MT is such an obvious change that it looked like a good time.

It doesn't seem like I'll like it as much as 1-4. Entirely different stuff. But I'll probably find something of interest in there. And the glossaries for BH again shows many names and groups I love, so I'll be happy again eventually.

Did you read Night of Knives? They say it's only about 300 pages, and tells of the assassination of Kellanved and Dancer. Should be pretty cool!!