Teaser Tuesday 8/7/2018: Shannararama!

So this week I’m still reading the original Shannara trilogy, having just finished up Elfstones and moved on to Wishsong:

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It’s a Mr. Death about the Reaping.

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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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Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli locate Excalibur

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Teaser Tuesday 5/29/2018: “Three Moments of an Explosion”

So this week I’m reading Three Moments of an Explosion, a collection of short stories by one of my favorite writers, China Miéville:

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Teaser Tuesday 3/20/18: “Brave New Worlds”

So this week I’m reading Brave New Worlds, an anthology of dystopian-set short stories. Because, you know, real life isn’t depressing enough these days.

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Teaser Tuesday 1/30/2018: “The Way of Kings” (Last Time, I Swear)

Well, it’s Groundhog Day … Again …

It’s fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A

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Teaser Tuesday 11/21/2017: “The Towers of Sunset”

This week I’m reading The Towers of Sunset, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., in which a young prince (sort-of — I haven’t quite figured out the exact nature of royal roles in this book) decides to skip town instead of allowing himself to be married off to a nearby ruler’s daughter. Because the “town” in question is a castle that’s basically situated in the middle of an arctic plateau, skipping it is a pretty major undertaking.

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Whoa Nelly!

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Teaser Tuesday 11/14/17: Still In “The Hole Behind Midnight”

This week I’m still reading The Hole Behind Midnight, by the aptly-named Clinton J. Boomer (apt because he has made a lot of things go “boom” in the book by this point).

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In the midnight hour she cried more, more, more

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Teaser Tuesday 10/3/2017: “Rage Against the Night”

So this week I’m reading Rage Against the Night, a short story anthology that was put out by the HWA with the charitable goal of helping one of its members, Rocky Wood (who happened to be president of HWA at the time), purchase an eye gaze machine* as he battled ALS.

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That awkward moment when you’re waiting for someone to toss a human finger for you to catch in your mouth.

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Teaser Tuesday 8/15/17: “The Great Iron War, Volumes 1-3”

This week I’m reading volumes 1-3 of The Great Iron War, by Dean F. Wilson, a science fantasy steampunk series in which Earth (or someplace like it) is invaded by outsiders, called “demons” (even though I’m pretty sure that’s not what they are) who come in search of iron. Hence the name of the war.

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Teaser Tuesday 8/1/2017: “Rebecca”

This week I’m reading Rebecca, the classic novel by Daphne du Maurier, in which a very young (and apparently nameless) narrator is swept off her feet by the dashing Maxim de Winter, quickly marries him, and goes off to live with him in his vast estate, Manderley, where it seems that―much like in the American South―the past is never really dead, and isn’t even past.

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