Category: Fantasy
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune 2020 I’ve written a few discussion questions that may be helpful for your book group. Maybe you’re living your life in color. It could be that you’re anticipating today’s interactions with pleasure: catching up with friends, having coffee with your spouse, meeting your parents or children for lunch, …
Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold 1988: Vorkosigan Saga #4 in publication order, #2 in chronological order I’m used to (and love) Bujold’s high fantasy epics. Falling Free is included in my Audible Plus membership so I snagged it, not realizing that it’s part of the Vorkosigan Saga series, and haven’t read other …
Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003 – HarperCollins Number 2 in the World of the Five Gods series Audio version published 2005 by Blackstone Audio I think Ista dy Chalion may be my favorite character in literature. She is unapologetic and honest about her abilities (supernatural and otherwise) and weaknesses, owns her …
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark 2021 Tor Books publisher; audiobook by MacMillan Audio Dead Djinn Universe #1 Meet Fatma – unapologetically snappy dresser, wearer of bowler hats, djinn-wrangler, human. Fatma el-Sha’arawi is an Agent with the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities in 1912 Cairo – and what a Cairo it …
Many Waters
Madeleine L’Engle 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux Time Quintet Number 4 In an off-the-charts brilliant family with the ability to travel back and forth in time and space, Murry twins Sandy and Dennys are usually portrayed as cheerfully pragmatic, conventional boys. They go to school, play sports, try to teach …
That Hideous Strength
C.S. Lewis 1945 – Space Trilogy #3 Audible Audiobook published 2001, 2005 by Blackstone Audio What a gruesome story this is. Unlike Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, it takes place entirely on Planet Earth, which diminishes the reader’s ability to experience the same level of detached novelty and …
The Curse of Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001, published by Turtleback Books World of the Five Gods #1(publication order), #9 (chronological order) Audiobook published by Blackstone Audio, narrated by Lloyd James Lupe dy Cazaril is tired, and he’s more embarrassed than angered by the physical scars of the abuse he suffered at the hands …
Out of the Silent Planet
C.S. Lewis, 1938 Space Trilogy #1 Audible Audiobook published 2001 by Blackstone Audio Meet Elwin Ransom, an unassuming Englishman who’s hijacked and ends up on a spaceship headed for another planet. His voyage, and the events that take place at his destination, make for very entertaining reading. I can’t resist …
A Wind in the Door
Madeleine L’Engle 1973, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux Time Quintet #2 When a Madeleine L’Engle book opens with a proclamation of the presence of dragons, the experienced L’Engle fan knows there are definitely dragons. Charles Wallace Murry announces the dragons in the very first sentence of this second book in the …