Archive For The “Books” Category
A few weeks ago I finally managed to pick up the pocket edition of the twelfth installment in The Wheel of Time series. The creator and original author, Robert Jordan, has passed away some time ago and Brandon Sanderson was chosen to finish the story. When I first heard that the supposedly last book had [...]
A little while ago I got the Going Postal DVD. It’s the latest film based on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. As this is one of my favorite books set in the Discworld universe (Moist von Lipwig is such a fantastic character), I was eagerly anticipating the DVD release. I had read a number of reviews and [...]
After devouring all the books related to The Elderlings universe, I eagerly anticipated reading through my newly acquired book: The Dragon Keeper; part one of The Rain Wild Chronicles. Unfortunately it’s the first book in the entire series that I have been disappointed with. Considering I’ve already read nine this met with mixed feelings. One [...]
I’ve started reading the last book in The Tawny Man trilogy. I’ll be interested in seeing how things will work out at the end of it! I absolutely love how Hobb manages to mingle the storyline of The Liveship Traders into this trilogy without actually continuing it! The consistent guest appearances of the dragon Tintaglia [...]
Not too long ago I posted about The Tawny Man trilogy. I mused a little about Amber, The Fool and Fitz. I wrote about my suspicions that the Fool is Amber from The Liveship Traders and that she had carved Fitz’s likeness on the liveship Paragon. I’m about halfway through the sequel to Fool’s Errand, [...]
