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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @BrianBell7
    @BrianBell7 3 дня назад +10

    "so it could be really good, but you know what? It could also be terrible." - Allen, The Library of Allenxandria.

  • @PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy
    @PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy 3 дня назад +6

    Hmmmm. I might like to join you in reading the Boudica series next year. You'll enjoy Roman Britain, I'm sure. It was pretty cool, especially after the Romans left and the Anglo-Saxons showed up. Oh, wait. I guess it wasn't Roman Britain anymore then . . . 😁Also, hooray for recording The Prophet of Edan!!!

  • @zkinak2107
    @zkinak2107 15 часов назад

    The Boudica and Greatcoats read alongs look especially appealing for next year! I’ve had my eye on those two series for awhile and Manda Scott seems like a fascinating individual. I might have to join for the Signal Airship as well!

  • @esmayrosalyne
    @esmayrosalyne 3 дня назад +3

    Okay I am not going to promise anything because I don't want to be blamed of the ultimate betrayal, BUT I am very very very eager to join for the Boudica, The Guns Above and the Greatcoats readalongs. Hope these series all are big hits for everyone!!
    And good luck with the recording of book 2. I absolutely ADORED your narration of the first one, even to the point that I now refuse to read book 2 without your performance to go along with it 🤣😍

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад +2

      Thank you so much! I'm hoping to get book 2 out early next year so be on the lookout! Gonna do the lions share of the recording over my two holiday breaks

    • @esmayrosalyne
      @esmayrosalyne 3 дня назад

      @@TheLibraryofAllenxandria will keep my eyes peeled! Good luck with the recording :)

  • @bigaldoesbooktube1097
    @bigaldoesbooktube1097 2 дня назад +1

    This is a whole load of reading plans 😮
    Now get back to the grind stone I need me some Prophet of Edan 😬
    In seriousness, amazing job on that first ebook 👌.

  • @alexia7981
    @alexia7981 День назад

    It’s reassuring to hear that even booktubers don’t read a lot at times ! You are human ! Love it ❤

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  День назад

      @@alexia7981 I am a decaying, rundown model of android programmed to read 2 books a month that no one's heard of 😛

  • @PonderingsOfPete
    @PonderingsOfPete 4 дня назад +3

    Prophet of Edan lets goooooooooooooooo

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад +1

      Woooooooo, I'm actually enjoying recording. If I wasn't so tired, I'd really enjoy it lol

  • @MariaMightReadThat
    @MariaMightReadThat 13 часов назад

    I'm definitely convinced Greatcoats would be richer without that one character's presence. 😂But it's still my absolute favorite series for all the other reasons you mentioned! Just did a re-read this year but hope you all have the best time!!
    I need SDC to travel more for book tours because I'm also dying to meet him

  • @nathanielanderson6356
    @nathanielanderson6356 2 дня назад

    Allen I've picked up my first K.J. Parker novel simply because of your constant recommendation. You haven't led me astray yet when I have given your recommendations a chance so I'm excited to get started after I finish The Fury of the Gods.

  • @EscapetoBooks23
    @EscapetoBooks23 2 дня назад

    All of these sound good! I have my own decently sized series reads next year but I'll probabaly pop in and out they sound so interesting.

  • @BepstheBookworm
    @BepstheBookworm 4 дня назад +5

    Also can I just thank you Allen for reccomending books that are not all, like, fifty dollars for the paperback? I am so happy whenever I see your planned readallongs because I can actually afford the books with my horrible college student budget, thank you, hehe. I will try Boudica too, because why not. And fine, shadow- ALLEN, you might just be my whole January TBR, take your laurells and go forth in glory >D

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад

      Hahahahahaha yessssss, Beps! Yeah I also don't like expensive books. It's probably largely bc I try and do series that arent currently in the zeitgeist I guess

    • @BepstheBookworm
      @BepstheBookworm 3 дня назад

      @@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Ah, see, this is your genius long-term plan to make millions join the readalong, very clever...

  • @andrewkraus9339
    @andrewkraus9339 День назад

    The Mechanical sounds intriguing and Guns Above sounds fun so at the very least will read both book one. And Great Coats has been on my backlog for a while, might finally be the motivation I need to actually get around to it.

  • @sjoerdth
    @sjoerdth 3 дня назад +2

    As a Dutchie I feel obligated to join The Mechanical read. I've also had my eye on Boudica, but the timing has to be right for those skyscrapers of books.

  • @BradySpiker
    @BradySpiker 3 дня назад

    Great video Allen! I’ll have to look through these series, I think I’d be interested in a read along.

  • @LiteratureScienceAlliance
    @LiteratureScienceAlliance 3 дня назад +2

    Bought the audiobook!
    Also you should do a video on the Gladiator movies (no idea if you like or dislike them but would love your thoughts regardless!)

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад

      I actually did not love the first gladiator but I definitely should do that!

    • @LiteratureScienceAlliance
      @LiteratureScienceAlliance 3 дня назад

      @ yea you talking about not liking roman media made me go “oh I bet he has LOTS of gladiators thoughts” 😂

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад

      @LiteratureScienceAlliance hahahahaha largely I just HATE Commodus in general

  • @Adam-hv6dy
    @Adam-hv6dy 3 дня назад +1

    Will definitely be joining the Boudica and Greatcoats reads!

  • @SamNot-so-wise
    @SamNot-so-wise 3 дня назад +1

    I’ve been interested in Boudica for a while so hopefully I can join for that. I have big life changes in 2025 though so I’ll have to see how it’s going!

  • @AReadersJourney
    @AReadersJourney 3 дня назад +1

    So cool to see you back on booktube more lately, Allen! These read-a-longs sound super fun. The Mechanicals series popped up on my radar recently and I was wondering why I'd never heard of it, so it's exciting that you'll be reading them! I started Boudica last year and loved it, but haven't gone back yet so this might be a good chance to jump back in. The writing is incredible, one of the most immersive books I've ever read, and with the strong spirituality of the culture it really feels like fantasy.

  • @Talking_Story
    @Talking_Story 3 дня назад +1

    Can’t wait for our buddy read of Glorious Exploits in January!!

  • @sarahbarden4135
    @sarahbarden4135 4 дня назад +1

    I'm so glad you are back to group reads! I will definitely be there for Gray Coats. I have not read it yet, but I have all the books 😂 The other reads are way out of my comfort zone but i might give it a try!

  • @ToriTalks2
    @ToriTalks2 3 дня назад

    Oooh The Guns Above sounds really good too.

  • @thefairylibrarian3282
    @thefairylibrarian3282 День назад

    I already read Dreaming the Eagle and was planning to read Dreaming the Bull in December, but i'll hold off untill May. I'm excited to read it with people, but i'm nervous about the book itself as i didn't love the second half of the first book.

  • @ABookForest
    @ABookForest 3 дня назад

    Interesting picks! I am very interested in Boudicca. I also absolutely loved The Greatcoats. I want to read Court of Shadows, I just don't know if I should read Play of Shadows or Crucible of Chaos first.

  • @marianneguevara8279
    @marianneguevara8279 4 дня назад +1

    The Mechanical sounds very interesting! I’m gonna have to check that one out. My ears immediately perked up though when I heard “foppish aristocrat” for The Guns Above.
    I’m happy to report that I’ve officially started A Shadow in Summer, thanks to you!

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад +1

      Yesssss, Marianne! And I love foppish aristocrats lol. It is my fondest wish that McClellan would write nobles with a character trait beyond 'i hate commoners'

  • @elainedejong2806
    @elainedejong2806 2 дня назад

    I may be joining you for Boudicca. I have it on my TBR.

  • @PonderingsOfPete
    @PonderingsOfPete 4 дня назад

    glad we're getting to Scavenger. That's the series that I've been most interested in of Parker's trilogies

  • @ernstbrehm1135
    @ernstbrehm1135 4 дня назад

    You know what, I love the greatcoats. So you know what, I’m gonna join the reread.

  • @iSamwise
    @iSamwise 3 дня назад

    That book, The Mechanical sounds really interesting! I think I’ll read at least the first one with y’all!

  • @AnithaGadeReads
    @AnithaGadeReads 4 дня назад

    Super excited for all these. Hope it will be as fun as last year.

  • @TheJellicle1
    @TheJellicle1 3 дня назад

    Very interested in Boudica and The Guns Above and YAAASSS for the Greatcoats readalong.

  • @ToriTalks2
    @ToriTalks2 3 дня назад

    I really want to read Boudica! I might keep an eye on that readalong. :D

  • @Gl1tch2263
    @Gl1tch2263 4 дня назад +1

    As he was a patron of the arts, I shall be cheering for Nero while reading Boudicca

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад +1

      Hahahahhahahha Mitch....Nero was so bad, the gods sent an earthquake during his performance and leveled the entire town

  • @ToriTalks2
    @ToriTalks2 3 дня назад

    "I may enjoy war in books."
    Same. XD

  • @dr.corwin4198
    @dr.corwin4198 3 дня назад

    Hello, I would definitely join in for these, the first 3 series sound really interesting and I have never heard of them, which is a great combination. As to the Scavenger trilogy, you heard right, it is almost certainly the weirdest Parker stuff, but really good! and I'm probably due for a re-read. The whole trilogy is a very strange and fun story, and will definitely be a catalyst for a lot of interesting discussion and speculation. I don't want to say much as this series really rewards going in blind, but be warned that book 2 is likely to be divisive, it's great and I love it, but structurally it's an unusual choice.
    And I really liked Traitor's Blade (on your recommendation) but somehow didn't get around to the rest of the series, so this sounds like the perfect encouragement to read the rest!
    I wanted to ask though, how do the read-alongs work? I have never been an active participant in booktube activities before, but it sounds like fun (I've been watching for a while but never joined in as I am not super internet savvy). I assume y'all chat about these along the way some where? What all goes on? Any information would be great!
    Many thanks for all of the cool additions to next year's reading journey!

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад

      Oh thanks for the info on Scavenger!
      And they work like this: basically, we read the book in the month at any time, nothing structured or anything, and there are channels in my discord to talk about it with spoiler tags on case others haven't read as far as you, then we meet up early the following month on a Livestream where me and a couple others talk about it while those watching contribute from the chat. It's always super fun!

  • @ARE.eads_e-Books
    @ARE.eads_e-Books 4 дня назад

    You made The Mechanical intriguing enough that I'm going to look up more about it.

  • @avi4905
    @avi4905 3 дня назад

    Definitely Jumping along!

  • @mattelliott8059
    @mattelliott8059 4 дня назад

    I just picked up The Mechanical. Excited to start 2025 with a readalong!

  • @will_i_am1565
    @will_i_am1565 4 дня назад

    Just finished The Greatcoats on the back of hearing how enthusiastic you were about it on CWN.
    What a set of books they are! Falcio, Kest and Brasti are excellent the whole way through

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад

      Yes!! I'm in love with just the *romance* of it all (in the original sense, not the lovey dovey sense...I hate that part of it)

  • @angelamccollister
    @angelamccollister День назад

    I've been wanting to read Boudica series since the Brothers Gwynne have been hyping it. May join in to your buddy read.

  • @csd8204
    @csd8204 3 дня назад

    Long time listener. Our tastes are very different, so I rarely take your recommendations to heart, but I like (mostly) the humor and commentary on books and writing (even while disagreeing). Really enjoyed all the Powder Mage books and fing McClellan extremely readable and entertaining. Good video, though.

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад

      Well thank you for the comment!
      I'm really glad Powder Mage connects with you and there is probably no series I wish worked for me more than that one.

  • @adamborst
    @adamborst 3 дня назад

    YAAAAASSSSSS!!

  • @thatsci-firogue
    @thatsci-firogue 4 дня назад +1

    I love Gates of Fire 😢

    • @heidi6281
      @heidi6281 3 дня назад

      The Daughter’s War by Christopher Buehlman has the same exact feel as Gates of Fire.

  • @cheyennebuckbooks
    @cheyennebuckbooks 3 дня назад

    These readalongs all sound so fun! I think i might join for The Mechanical trilogy and the K.J. Parker series.
    I read the Guns Above book years ago when it first came out and had a really good time with it. I never continued on to the sequel, though. Maybe I'll pick it up

  • @readbykyle3082
    @readbykyle3082 3 дня назад

    I will join for Boudicca! Almost picked it up twice this year but never did

  • @zeallygreen
    @zeallygreen 4 дня назад

    Definitely going to join some of these……just need figure out which ones 🥴💚

  • @Johanna_reads
    @Johanna_reads 4 дня назад

    I love the foppish aristocrat description! 😂
    Don’t forget that you’re reading Dangerous Exploits with John and me in January!

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад +1

      I will almost assuredly pre-betray both of you

    • @Johanna_reads
      @Johanna_reads 4 дня назад

      @@TheLibraryofAllenxandria 😱 How dare you! 😛

    • @heidi6281
      @heidi6281 3 дня назад +1

      Glorious Exploits is the title and I am sure you will get a chance to read it along with John either way.

  • @mastersal4644
    @mastersal4644 3 дня назад

    All the people who are going to be bumped off the buddy lists for you Allen !! 😂😂 poor things

  • @simonchirps
    @simonchirps 2 дня назад

    Allen just declaring war on out 2025 TBRs. I surrender; I will read Boudica! If I don't like it I can pretend Philip recommended it first.

  • @heidi6281
    @heidi6281 3 дня назад

    I am going to start Book 4 of Boudica in January, Dreaming the Serpent Spear and so far its all good, the first book is unbelievably exceptional and heart wrenching. When I checked wikipedia I was surprised to find out almost all the players were real people!!

  • @BepstheBookworm
    @BepstheBookworm 4 дня назад

    YASSS POMPEIII LET'S GOOOOO!!!! I will buy the mechanical, it seems cool. It is so my taste I am just shocked that I haven't found it before hehe. If it terrible at least I can hate it with such a wonderful group of peeps. When will the mechanical conversations be tentatively, just so I can plan my glacial reading speed around it?

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад

      The conversations on each book tend to be the first or second week of the FOLLOWING month. So we'll probably talk about The Mechanical early february

    • @BepstheBookworm
      @BepstheBookworm 3 дня назад

      @@TheLibraryofAllenxandria I can do this- I shall join the read aloing! *salutes to beneficent tyrant*

  • @khod3337
    @khod3337 3 дня назад

    I'm going to join all of these I was just about to buy the scavenger trilogy and just bought traitors blade. Great timing 😂

  • @Wouter_K
    @Wouter_K 3 дня назад

    I loved your audiobook! And not just because I love your video's. I feel you elevated the book in terms of ambiance. when I read Way of Edan I was kind of annoyed with all the long nonsensical sentences in make-up language. But you made them really fun :) I do still stand by my original opinion that there is no reason in this book or anywhere else in the world to write or talk about a horse named Hraedflyht. :'D
    Oh and I will join you on some of these. Putting them in my planner!

  • @Fianna1775
    @Fianna1775 4 дня назад

    I have very few plans for next year. I am one of those five people who has been waiting for this video. Only things really on the schedule are the new GGK book and the new Witcher book assuming we have an English translation by then.
    I will wait to read Dreaming the Eagle until next year! Looking forward to your thoughts.
    Your comments on why you have trouble with Greco Roman historical fiction makes sense. While no expert, I have such a hard time with historical fiction about the Tudors. You should have seen me yelling at Phillipa Gregory.
    I have a question for you, a historical one. Based on your knowledge, was Cornelius Sulla really a good awful jerk? Because I have read two books lately where he is a main character and in both he is just capital A Awful.
    Happy Reading! 📖

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад

      Yeah, Sulla was a huge douchebag. Hardcore aristocrat, talented but jealous of Marius's superstar fame, and brutal dictator who stripped rights from the commoners

    • @Fianna1775
      @Fianna1775 3 дня назад

      @@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Yeah that tracks. I need a good nonfiction book on the first Roman Civil War. Such an interesting era.

  • @EricMcLuen
    @EricMcLuen 3 дня назад

    If you need a Glen Cook flintlock fix, Instrumentalities of the Night....
    And started Thucydides Pelopenesian War for fun(?). Spoiled who won right in the prologue.

  • @nickywal
    @nickywal 4 дня назад

    Boudica's husband was a Roman client king for quite a while, so I'd imagine the books will be covering that dynamic and also women within that society. She was badass. I didn't realise Richard Swann had a new book out I need to actually read trials of empire

  • @KFoxtheGreat
    @KFoxtheGreat 4 дня назад

    I'm going to try to read at least book one of all of these. I'm most excited for Boudica and Great Coats, but they all sound great

  • @RadellasReadingRoom
    @RadellasReadingRoom 4 дня назад

    🤔
    Promise of Blod and Emperor's Blades both have awesome prologues and then fall apart really quickly. Coincidence?

  • @angelamccollister
    @angelamccollister День назад

    I'm interested in what you will think of the Scavenger trilogy. Of his first three trilogies (including Fencer and Engineer), Scavenger is my least favorite. To be honest, I don't remember it very well. I read it many years ago.

  • @tovx76
    @tovx76 3 дня назад

    Greta video Allen! Did you ever finish the Dagger and Coin series by Daniel Abraham? I’m binging it right now about halfway through book 4. I watched your review of book 1 and if you did not continue with the series I implore you to keep reading! It’s brilliant I feel like it is right up your alley. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад +1

      No I finished it! I loved it. I didn't love the path the story arc took around book 4 but that's just personal preference, not that it was bad. Geder is a great character, if the worst

  • @SheWasOnlyEvie
    @SheWasOnlyEvie 4 дня назад

    I volunteer myself as tribute for co-hosting Scavenger trilogy! Add me tentatively for Alchemy Wars and even more tentatively for the Boudica series.
    But Traitor's Blade is poopoo (I was typing that right before and as you were calling me out...hahahaha!). All melodrama aside, I see why you love Greatcoats so much even though it didn't work for me. To reinforce my reputation, there's not enough melancholy, but there sure is justice and buckles being swashed!

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад +1

      See, this is why I love you. You are one of the rare who can understand that something not for you can easily be something for me bc of the things I love.

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  4 дня назад +1

      And of course. I assumed me you Anitha and Pete would lead scavenger

    • @SheWasOnlyEvie
      @SheWasOnlyEvie 4 дня назад

      @@TheLibraryofAllenxandria Maybe I just read it without any or enough media literacy. 😜

  • @Thaurnol
    @Thaurnol 4 дня назад

    nive! i will join you for some of these, despite the fact that i have Warlord Chronicles and Long Price Quartet to finish; the Boudica series has been in my library for ages and The Great Coats sounds... great - see what i did there? :)

  • @FairyTalePhilipp
    @FairyTalePhilipp 3 дня назад

    Hi Allen, I read Augustus after Dr Philip Chase The Best of Fantasy recommended it in your last video :)

  • @nancywolf1467
    @nancywolf1467 4 дня назад

    ZEUS!!
    I bought The Mechanical on 8/12/2018 … yes, 6 years ago. My TBR is sky high. So I’m in!
    Great Coats? YESSS 🙌🏻
    Signal Airship? Color me intrigued. I’m in!!
    Boudica … dam those brothers cuz I’m pre-curious. Mayyyyybe! 😆 they’re doorstops so 😱
    Guns of the Dawn ❤
    I hear from AWR that the audiobook narrator is fantastic on The Way of EDAN … I bought it a while ago so it’s on my TBR 😁
    You should send KJP the first couple chapters of TFK … it’s the only way I’ll get to read it …
    TTFN

  • @paulwilliams6913
    @paulwilliams6913 3 дня назад

    I haven’t yet read KJ Parker, but a while ago I read the dust jacket summary for the Scavenger trilogy and it sounds like it’s similar (but also really different from) Gene Wolfe’s Latro in the Mist. Wolfe’s series is about a mercenary who received a head wound in the Battle of Platea and now he forgets everything each morning. The book is presented as his journal, which he reads each morning to establish his identity. However, it’s suggested that in exchange, Latro can now see the gods….or is he delusional? I think Latro may be worth your curiosity, if you don’t mind an author who can be tricky :)

  • @joshramirez7
    @joshramirez7 3 дня назад

    People plan out their entire reading year? I'd say most who don't have channels most certainly do not haha

  • @FreeLatveria
    @FreeLatveria 3 дня назад

    Get yo butt up to Atlanta for the ATL Comic Con. Sebastian de Castelle was there last year. Briefly met him.
    And that's ATL Comic Con, not Atlanta Comic Con. Those are two very different cons.

    • @TheLibraryofAllenxandria
      @TheLibraryofAllenxandria  3 дня назад

      No I know he was there but it was right after school started so I couldn't make it!

  • @nidhi3054
    @nidhi3054 4 дня назад

    I am pretty sure i will be reading Greatcoats, maybe Boudica too! Thank you for hosting these 😊