Monthly Archives: April 2016

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Bout of Books 16!

Bout of Books

It’s time for Bout of Books 16!  For those unfamiliar with Bout of Books, the description from the official website:

“The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team”

This will be my third time participating in Bout of Books, and I’m looking froward to it because it always pushes me to read more.  And it’s not taking place during Camp NaNo, so that certainly helps. 🙂

My goal* for Bout of Books 16 will be to read one chapter of Dust of Dreams a day as well as to finish at least two other books during that week.

*Goal subject to change as week approaches

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Top Ten Tuesday – Best Things About Books

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It’s Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by the broke and the bookish.  Each week, there’s a different topic.  Come up with your list of top ten, post it, and then add to the link at b&b’s masterpost, then bounce around and see other people’s lists.

This week’s theme was Top Ten Bookworm Delights, so behold: my Top Ten Best Things About Books/Reading.

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Review – Stonewielder

Stonewielder (Malazan Empire, #3)Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont
Synopsis from GoodReads:
Greymane believed he’d outrun his past. With his school for swordsmanship in Falar, he was looking forward to a quiet life, although his colleague Kyle wasn’t as enamoured with things outside the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard.

However, it seems it is not so easy for an ex-Fist of the Malazan Empire to disappear, especially one under sentence of death from that same Empire. For there is a new Emperor on the throne of Malaz, and he is dwelling on the ignominy that is the Empire’s failed invasion of the Korel subcontinent. In the vaults beneath Unta, the Imperial capital, lie the answers to that disaster. And out of this buried history surfaces the name Stonewielder.

In Korel, Lord Protector Hiam, commander of the Stormguard, faces the potential annihilation of all that he holds dear. With few remaining men and a crumbling stone wall that has seen better days, he confronts an ancient enemy: the sea-borne Stormriders have returned. Religious war also threatens these lands. The cult of the Blessed Lady, which had stood firm against the Riders for millennia, now seeks to eradicate its rivals. And as chaos looms, a local magistrate investigating a series of murders suddenly finds himself at the heart of a far more ancient and terrifying crime — one that has tainted an entire land. Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday – Books for the Epic Fantasy Lover

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It’s Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly bookish meme hosted by the broke and the bookish.  Each week, there’s a different topic.  Come up with your list of top ten, post it, and then add to the link at b&b’s masterpost, then bounce around and see other people’s lists.

This week’s theme was Top Ten Books for Every X to Read.  Naturally, I picked fantasy books, seeing as I love spec-fic and tend towards the fantasy end of the spectrum.  But I went further than that and picked Epic Fantasy because I’m feeling the love for those right now.

Please keep in mind that not everyone agrees on what is true Epic Fantasy as compared with High Fantasy, so this list is probably at least a little subjective.  If you want the definition of the difference, as I understand it, see the end of this post (marked with an *)

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