So this week I’m still reading the original Shannara trilogy, having just finished up Elfstones and moved on to Wishsong:
Teaser Tuesday 8/7/2018: Shannararama!
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Teaser Tuesday 7/31/2018: Yet More “Sword of Shannara” Trilogy!
So this week, I am still reading the “Sword of Shannara” trilogy. At this point I am partway through the second novel of the original series, The Elfstones of Shannara, which is a much better book than the first one; either Terry Brooks engaged in a lot of writing practice after Sword of Shannara, or his publisher hired a better editor, or both. Probably both.
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Teaser Tuesday 7/17/2018: More “Sword of Shannara” Trilogy
So this week, surprising no one, I am still reading the “Sword of Shannara” trilogy omnibus. In fact I’m still on the first volume. For something a little different, I thought I would scrounge up the original cover from this book, courtesy of Goodreads:
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Teaser Tuesday 7/10/2018: The “Sword of Shannara” Trilogy
Somehow, despite being both a Child of the 80s and a fairly voracious reader of fantasy literature, I never got around to reading any of Terry Brooks’s classic “Shannara” series. That oversight is now being corrected, as I’m currently reading The Sword of Shannara Trilogy, a massive ebook comprising The Sword of Shannara (1977), The Elfstones of Shannara (1982), and The Wishsong of Shannara (1985).
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Teaser Tuesday 7/3/2018: “The Rise of Ransom City”
This week I’m reading Felix Gilman’s The Rise of Ransom City, a steampunk fantasy Western that is a quasi-sequel to The Half-Made World, which is of course also a steampunk fantasy Western.
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Teaser Tuesday 6/26/2018: “Lost Souls”
So this week I finally got around to reading Lost Souls, the classic 1992 vampire novel by Poppy Z. Brite:
Teaser Tuesday 5/12/2018: “The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls”
So this week I’m reading The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls, a horror/dark fantasy/historical/possibly semi-autobiographical novel by the violinist and pop/punk/cabaret/sort-of-unclassifiable singer Emilie Autumn.
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