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openidwouldwork) wrote2014-01-09 09:57 pm
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Last year's highlights
There was Fantasy February ...
- Tolkiens größte Helden - Wie die Hobbits die Welt eroberten: Anthologie - lovely collection of meta and Hobbit themed short stories, offers a lot of food for thought.
- Drachenelfen by Bernhard Hennen - taking rebellius princess syndrome to new hights... or should that be lows...? And no way around her... other autors that have obnoxious female characters at least give the character's names as the chapter header (looks at George R R Martin) so you can skip them, but here it's really the female main character *sigh*
But there are interesting non-female and non-main characters, and I love the worldbuilding and the Elfen cycle as such, so I'll keep reading ;)
- Drachenelfen Die Windgängerin by Bernhard Hennen
Doing the legwork of worlds buildung and character development to gear up for the great rift portrayed in the sequels, this one. One? Actually it's two books published in one - what a novel idea... Expecting the great showdown in the next one/two books - how did I get sucked into a prequel WIP? *shakes head at self*
- Dreamer: A Prequel to the Mongoliad (Foreworld Saga) by Mark Teppo
I read this for Fantasy February, but the 'fantasy' bit only 'really' raised it's head in the last couple of sentences... Historical fiction and fantasy can be almost interchangeable at times... no, strike that, a LOT of historical fiction IS fantasy, due to lack of research...
- Cthulhu in Wonderland / The Madness of Alice by Kent Kelly
*grins* technobabble at it's best!
- Fantasy. Aber ohne doofe Elfen by Uwe Post
*grins* Fun short story collection. *grins moar* Without silly elves.
- Sturmwelten by Christoph Hardebusch
Odd Pirates-of-the-Caribbean type fantasy. AoS with weird magic is apparently not my thing, especially if the AoS bits are just 'wrong' - which is very Pirates of the Caribbean, but... not reading the other books of the trilogy.
- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (audio)
Charming, mein allerliebster Liebling!
and of course Sharpe's September
- Sharpe's Skirmish by Bernard Cornwell
Lovely little interlude set after Sharpe's Sword, dealing with his fighting fitness and soldier's sense. Echoing previous fights (Gawligur). Fine read!
- Sharpe's Story by Bernard Cornwell
Another snippet booklet where Bernard Cornwell talkes about writing the series, his ideas, thoughts and influences.
- The first Sharpe, 1809, Talavera. Sharpe's Eagle . Battling the French, Spanish and Horse Guards...
- Sharpe's Christmas (which includes Sharpe's Ransom)
two Christmas stories featuring the Rifleman, one as a Major the other showing us Sharpe the farmer. Fun read.
- Sharpe's Gold
Where Richard Sharpe watches Teresa streaking throught the Portugese hills and destroys Almeida, August 1810 XD
I LOVE Sharpe's Gold... it has these wonderful KGL characters... and a midshipman-decapitation... grand book, grand book!
- Sharpe's Company
Ah, being disgusted and revolted by Hakeswill again...
- Sharpe's Rifles
Yes, entirely out of order, but I wanted Rifles! *pouts*
- Sharpe's Sword
Where he didn't get jellified and participated in a cavalry charge.
- Sharpe's Enemy
Major Sharpe taking over the battalion he's attached to... to take on 8 French battalions.
- Sharpe's Honour
Ebil spies tempting Sharpe with golden rewards...
- Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe having syllabub with prinny... and finally getting himself a horse or two.
- Sharpe's Siege
The last one written before they started filming the series. It's been very interesting to see the 'original' Sharpe's character development...
and Discworld December
- The Colour of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett
*bounce bounce* Great to be back!
- Wyrd Sisters
So much for reading 'order of publication'... *headdesk* been feeling discworldian myself...
- The Light Fantastic
See, I did try!
- Equal Rites
So much I didn't remember! Great idea to re-read! Some rather interesting developments to keep in mind.
- Mort
Another one I remembered little of. Sneaks in a lot of Discworld background and makeup info... things I 'knew' later on, but never realised from 'where'.
- Sourcery
Hum. I had been wondering why I didn't remember reading this one, despite being sure I had read it and having it on my shelf... not wondering anymore. Pretty much the only interesting thing about it is seeing the librarian's character development...
- Pyramids
An unusual one... it is difficult to come home... and it has camels!
- Guards! Guards!
*LOVES*
- Eric
Back to an infuriating teenager... but he gets a couple of boots to the shin and elbows to the ribs, so he gets more bearable ;)
- Moving Pictures
Having fun with film history and quirks this time! *GRINS* Particles of ideas attacking people and talents for things that haven't been invented yet overwhelming them...
Oh and we meet Gaspode! And Ponder Stibbons! And a still-sane Bursar! Aaaaand TA-DAH! the newest Archchancellor:
A search of the records turned up Ridcully the Brown who, after becoming a Seventh Level mage at the incredibly young age of twenty-seven, had quit the University in order to look after his family's estates deep in the country.
He looked ideal.
'Just the chap,' they all said. 'Clean sweep. New broom. A country wizard. Back to the thingumajigs, the roots of wizardry. Jolly old boy with a pipe and twinkly eyes. Sort of chap who can tell one herb from another, roams-the-high-forest-with-every-beast-his-brother kind of thing. Sleeps under the stars, like as not. Knows what the wind is saying, we shouldn't wonder. Got a name for all the trees, you can bank on it. Speaks to the birds, too.'
A messenger had been sent. Ridcully the Brown had sighed, cursed a bit, found his staff in the kitchen garden where it had been supporting a scarecrow, and had set out.
As it turns out...
It was beginning to dawn on the Bursar that, against all expectation, the Archchancellor was quite bright.
... I think that's what did in the Bursar's sanity
- Reaper Man
An odd one with two storylines... one meeting the auditors and the other battling an alien life form, the shopping mall.
- A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction by Sir Terry Pratchett
Paying particular attention to the Discworld bits, of course!
- Witches Abroad
Touristing, witches style! Travelling is Fun! *grins* Interesting take on what is 'good' or 'bad' and how either is percieved... there is the eye of the beholder thing and what either does to the people - and animals - around...
And (for the non-Brit) learning what a wet hen is... XD
- Small Gods
You know, I had been remembering this as 'a good one'. I was wrong. It's excellent, exellent!
- Lords and Ladies
It's great to get a proper introduction of Jason Ogg and has a lot of truth about cats. And features some Lancre sights... ;)
- Tolkiens größte Helden - Wie die Hobbits die Welt eroberten: Anthologie - lovely collection of meta and Hobbit themed short stories, offers a lot of food for thought.
- Drachenelfen by Bernhard Hennen - taking rebellius princess syndrome to new hights... or should that be lows...? And no way around her... other autors that have obnoxious female characters at least give the character's names as the chapter header (looks at George R R Martin) so you can skip them, but here it's really the female main character *sigh*
But there are interesting non-female and non-main characters, and I love the worldbuilding and the Elfen cycle as such, so I'll keep reading ;)
- Drachenelfen Die Windgängerin by Bernhard Hennen
Doing the legwork of worlds buildung and character development to gear up for the great rift portrayed in the sequels, this one. One? Actually it's two books published in one - what a novel idea... Expecting the great showdown in the next one/two books - how did I get sucked into a prequel WIP? *shakes head at self*
- Dreamer: A Prequel to the Mongoliad (Foreworld Saga) by Mark Teppo
I read this for Fantasy February, but the 'fantasy' bit only 'really' raised it's head in the last couple of sentences... Historical fiction and fantasy can be almost interchangeable at times... no, strike that, a LOT of historical fiction IS fantasy, due to lack of research...
- Cthulhu in Wonderland / The Madness of Alice by Kent Kelly
*grins* technobabble at it's best!
- Fantasy. Aber ohne doofe Elfen by Uwe Post
*grins* Fun short story collection. *grins moar* Without silly elves.
- Sturmwelten by Christoph Hardebusch
Odd Pirates-of-the-Caribbean type fantasy. AoS with weird magic is apparently not my thing, especially if the AoS bits are just 'wrong' - which is very Pirates of the Caribbean, but... not reading the other books of the trilogy.
- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (audio)
Charming, mein allerliebster Liebling!
and of course Sharpe's September
- Sharpe's Skirmish by Bernard Cornwell
Lovely little interlude set after Sharpe's Sword, dealing with his fighting fitness and soldier's sense. Echoing previous fights (Gawligur). Fine read!
- Sharpe's Story by Bernard Cornwell
Another snippet booklet where Bernard Cornwell talkes about writing the series, his ideas, thoughts and influences.
- The first Sharpe, 1809, Talavera. Sharpe's Eagle . Battling the French, Spanish and Horse Guards...
- Sharpe's Christmas (which includes Sharpe's Ransom)
two Christmas stories featuring the Rifleman, one as a Major the other showing us Sharpe the farmer. Fun read.
- Sharpe's Gold
Where Richard Sharpe watches Teresa streaking throught the Portugese hills and destroys Almeida, August 1810 XD
I LOVE Sharpe's Gold... it has these wonderful KGL characters... and a midshipman-decapitation... grand book, grand book!
- Sharpe's Company
Ah, being disgusted and revolted by Hakeswill again...
- Sharpe's Rifles
Yes, entirely out of order, but I wanted Rifles! *pouts*
- Sharpe's Sword
Where he didn't get jellified and participated in a cavalry charge.
- Sharpe's Enemy
Major Sharpe taking over the battalion he's attached to... to take on 8 French battalions.
- Sharpe's Honour
Ebil spies tempting Sharpe with golden rewards...
- Sharpe's Regiment
Sharpe having syllabub with prinny... and finally getting himself a horse or two.
- Sharpe's Siege
The last one written before they started filming the series. It's been very interesting to see the 'original' Sharpe's character development...
and Discworld December
- The Colour of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett
*bounce bounce* Great to be back!
- Wyrd Sisters
So much for reading 'order of publication'... *headdesk* been feeling discworldian myself...
- The Light Fantastic
See, I did try!
- Equal Rites
So much I didn't remember! Great idea to re-read! Some rather interesting developments to keep in mind.
- Mort
Another one I remembered little of. Sneaks in a lot of Discworld background and makeup info... things I 'knew' later on, but never realised from 'where'.
- Sourcery
Hum. I had been wondering why I didn't remember reading this one, despite being sure I had read it and having it on my shelf... not wondering anymore. Pretty much the only interesting thing about it is seeing the librarian's character development...
- Pyramids
An unusual one... it is difficult to come home... and it has camels!
- Guards! Guards!
*LOVES*
- Eric
Back to an infuriating teenager... but he gets a couple of boots to the shin and elbows to the ribs, so he gets more bearable ;)
- Moving Pictures
Having fun with film history and quirks this time! *GRINS* Particles of ideas attacking people and talents for things that haven't been invented yet overwhelming them...
Oh and we meet Gaspode! And Ponder Stibbons! And a still-sane Bursar! Aaaaand TA-DAH! the newest Archchancellor:
A search of the records turned up Ridcully the Brown who, after becoming a Seventh Level mage at the incredibly young age of twenty-seven, had quit the University in order to look after his family's estates deep in the country.
He looked ideal.
'Just the chap,' they all said. 'Clean sweep. New broom. A country wizard. Back to the thingumajigs, the roots of wizardry. Jolly old boy with a pipe and twinkly eyes. Sort of chap who can tell one herb from another, roams-the-high-forest-with-every-beast-his-brother kind of thing. Sleeps under the stars, like as not. Knows what the wind is saying, we shouldn't wonder. Got a name for all the trees, you can bank on it. Speaks to the birds, too.'
A messenger had been sent. Ridcully the Brown had sighed, cursed a bit, found his staff in the kitchen garden where it had been supporting a scarecrow, and had set out.
As it turns out...
It was beginning to dawn on the Bursar that, against all expectation, the Archchancellor was quite bright.
... I think that's what did in the Bursar's sanity
- Reaper Man
An odd one with two storylines... one meeting the auditors and the other battling an alien life form, the shopping mall.
- A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction by Sir Terry Pratchett
Paying particular attention to the Discworld bits, of course!
- Witches Abroad
Touristing, witches style! Travelling is Fun! *grins* Interesting take on what is 'good' or 'bad' and how either is percieved... there is the eye of the beholder thing and what either does to the people - and animals - around...
And (for the non-Brit) learning what a wet hen is... XD
- Small Gods
You know, I had been remembering this as 'a good one'. I was wrong. It's excellent, exellent!
- Lords and Ladies
It's great to get a proper introduction of Jason Ogg and has a lot of truth about cats. And features some Lancre sights... ;)
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But Small Gods is one of the his best, even if it doesn't always sit comfortably with the rest of Discworld history. And oh, my best beloved - I grew up with The Just-So Stories - and still think that's how writing started!
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*clutches books and waits for better days*
and *HUGS*