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March 4th, 2013

Monday, March 4th, 2013 09:03 am
There was a 'Fantasy February' group on librarything... it was very interesting, really, but more for the non-fantasy aspects... I kept being surprised how 'regional' reading taste is... *mutters* I wouldn't touch some of the stuff others read and thought fantastic ;) with a bargepole...*

- Meister Floh by ETA Hoffmann - yes, there was fantasy in 1822

- Just-So Stories by Kipling - Charming, mein allerliebster Liebling! Well, ok, I hated Taffy, but how can you not?

- 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.

- Turn by Zack Mason - *shrugs*

- Fantasy. Aber ohne doofe Elfen by Uwe Post - *grins* Fun short story collection. *grins moar* Without silly elves.

- Cthulhu in Wonderland (The Madness of Alice by Kent Kelly - *grins* technobabble at it's best!

- 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...

- 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 kept 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*

- 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.
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