I agree, August flew by D: A bear? What? I was definitely not expecting that, I think I'll stay with the hazardous roos D: 1984, I agree-mandatory reading, same with Animal Farm; both such are such powerful books! You read so much! 🤯I so need to get to the "Children..." trilogy. I'm seeing it everywhere! I hope you like Bester's book, it was very interesting! Happy reading, Jarrod!
“Tigana”!🤩 Glad you are enjoying it so much so far! I hate to “toot my own horn”, but I have a couple of “Tigana”-lore “videos”*(*Read: Badly made PowerPoint Presentations with no audio! 😅): At least the first one should be fine to watch no matter how far you are into the novel, and the second one is my “emergency explainer” to break open when corn swords start appearing! 🌽⚔️😄 Birds (lovely), bear…ok! 😨😅😆 “1984”: Timeless Classic! Have read a few Haggard novels (“She”, “King Solomon’s Mines”) and can definitely see an influence from Ayesha/“She” on the scene of Galadriel and her magical water mirror and the mines of the Dwarfs! Have also seen some comparisons made between the trio of protagonists in “She” and three of the hobbits: The loyal working class servant Job to trusty old Sam, the middle class scientist Horace to the i and wanderlust of Frodo and the young noble Leo to Pippin! I was very pleasantly surprised that Nicola Griffith had done her history homework in “Hild”! In August I finished Part 1 & 2 of “To Green Angel Tower” by Tad Williams (Epic Fantasy, final «novel(s)» in the “Memory, Sorrow & Thorn” “Trilogy”), Michael Moorcock’s “The Warlord of the Air” (Multiverse Time Travel Steampunk? 😅), and “The Thousandfold Thought” (Epic Dark/Grimdark Fantasy, the final novel in the «Prince of Nothing» Trilogy) by R. Scott Bakker. So after a very ambitious (but very rewarding) Summer TBR (both the «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn» & the «Prince of Nothing» trilogies ++), this Autumn I am gonna be a bit more mood reading with no «big chonkers». I know I am definitely gonna read «Leviathan Wakes» (The Expanse #9, Space Opera, only book I didn’t get to from my Summer TBR) & «Lustrum» (US: «Conspirata», Cicero Trilogy #2, Historical Fiction about the eponymous Roman Statesman) by Robert Harris (book #1 «Imperium» is contending for my book of the year so far, together with GGK’s «A Brightness Long Ago»). I am most likely also gonna get to Michael Moorcock’s «(The Tale of)The Eternal Champion» Trilogy (Epic Fantasy/S&S). Might also get to some Rosemary Sutcliff (YA Historical Fiction) & David Gemmell (Epic Fantasy). Cheers!
I agree, August flew by D: A bear? What? I was definitely not expecting that, I think I'll stay with the hazardous roos D: 1984, I agree-mandatory reading, same with Animal Farm; both such are such powerful books! You read so much! 🤯I so need to get to the "Children..." trilogy. I'm seeing it everywhere! I hope you like Bester's book, it was very interesting! Happy reading, Jarrod!
Thanks Livia! It's great to hear from you as always. Keep putting out cool stories and watch out for those Roos!
@@thefantasythinker Thank you! That means so much!
“Tigana”!🤩 Glad you are enjoying it so much so far! I hate to “toot my own horn”, but I have a couple of “Tigana”-lore “videos”*(*Read: Badly made PowerPoint Presentations with no audio! 😅): At least the first one should be fine to watch no matter how far you are into the novel, and the second one is my “emergency explainer” to break open when corn swords start appearing! 🌽⚔️😄
Birds (lovely), bear…ok! 😨😅😆
“1984”: Timeless Classic!
Have read a few Haggard novels (“She”, “King Solomon’s Mines”) and can definitely see an influence from Ayesha/“She” on the scene of Galadriel and her magical water mirror and the mines of the Dwarfs! Have also seen some comparisons made between the trio of protagonists in “She” and three of the hobbits: The loyal working class servant Job to trusty old Sam, the middle class scientist Horace to the i and wanderlust of Frodo and the young noble Leo to Pippin!
I was very pleasantly surprised that Nicola Griffith had done her history homework in “Hild”!
In August I finished Part 1 & 2 of “To Green Angel Tower” by Tad Williams (Epic Fantasy, final «novel(s)» in the “Memory, Sorrow & Thorn” “Trilogy”), Michael Moorcock’s “The Warlord of the Air” (Multiverse Time Travel Steampunk? 😅), and “The Thousandfold Thought” (Epic Dark/Grimdark Fantasy, the final novel in the «Prince of Nothing» Trilogy) by R. Scott Bakker.
So after a very ambitious (but very rewarding) Summer TBR (both the «Memory, Sorrow & Thorn» & the «Prince of Nothing» trilogies ++), this Autumn I am gonna be a bit more mood reading with no «big chonkers». I know I am definitely gonna read «Leviathan Wakes» (The Expanse #9, Space Opera, only book I didn’t get to from my Summer TBR) & «Lustrum» (US: «Conspirata», Cicero Trilogy #2, Historical Fiction about the eponymous Roman Statesman) by Robert Harris (book #1 «Imperium» is contending for my book of the year so far, together with GGK’s «A Brightness Long Ago»). I am most likely also gonna get to Michael Moorcock’s «(The Tale of)The Eternal Champion» Trilogy (Epic Fantasy/S&S).
Might also get to some Rosemary Sutcliff (YA Historical Fiction) & David Gemmell (Epic Fantasy). Cheers!
Interesting observations on the Haggard books! I may have to get around to those at some point. Good luck with the mood reading! :)