Elijah David

And yes, that is a Tow'rs reference. Go listen . I just finished rereading The Queen of Attolia (only a year after I reread The Thief in hopes of reading the whole series again before getting to Thick as Thieves ). As I plotted out how to do this month's ThrowBook Thursday post (delayed from last week due to a sick Samwise, who's now on the mend), I realized that I'd already used QoA for last year's TBT in May . I'm pretty sure I blinked. Then I laughed. Then I said, "What the heck, let's review it again anyway." Everything I said last year remains true (minus me thinking QoA has multiple myths; it just has the one). But I want to add a few things that I appreciated even more on this, my third time through the book: Eugenides and his sass. "I'll stop shouting, but I won't sit down. I might need to throw more ink bottles." Attolia and everything we learn about her history Ruby earrings (if you've read the books,...

Back in January I listed the books in my TBR pile/shelf that I was most looking forward to reading. This month, I'm going to update that list because a) I have read a few from that list and b) my reading desires change with the hour. Cold Days by Jim Butcher Now that I've read Changes and Ghost Story (and have given myself some time to recuperate), I'm ready to dive into the next Dresden Files book. I'm really interested to see where the series goes after the stunning duo that was books 12 and 13. A Report from Group 17 by Robert C. O'Brien This is the last book in the O'Brien read/watch series, and I've partly been holding off on it because after this, there will be no more new-to-me O'Brien books. Yes, there are the NIMH sequels written by his daughter, but still. I'm going to read it because I need to finish the series, but please don't be upset if it takes me a little longer. The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams I t...

Since I love to read, my Christmas wish lists usually involve at least a few books. This year, I received 6 books for Christmas, with a few extras thrown in due to gift cards and post-Christmas shopping. Most of those are on this list, and a few more are just books on my shelves I want to dive into soon. Changes by Jim Butcher I finished Turn Coat  and wanted to dive into this book immediately, but held back because I felt I should finish one of the other books I was reading first, and because I didn't want to finish it before I received Ghost Story  for Christmas. Ghost Story by Jim Butcher Yeah, I basically want to binge read the rest of the current books in the Dresden Files series because I love these books so much. No, I don't think the title bodes well for anyone involved. Cold Days by Jim Butcher Without letting myself get spoiled too  badly on what comes, there's no way this doesn't involve Mab and the Winter Court. Skin Game by Jim B...

It's a new year, and while waiting for a new week/month/year isn't the best way to set a goal in place, I'm doing the new year's resolution thing again this year because that's how things have come together around here. But first, a little self-examination about last year's resolutions. How did I do last year? I laid out my personal reading resolution  here  on the blog. And . . . I did okay. I kept myself to the read a book to buy a book resolution, mostly. Christmas money kind of did that in. I didn't do so well with the read a book on the shelf before adding one, though I did switch books out more often than outright adding more. And I only read 12 out of the 62 books on my shelf that were there at the start of the year. That's less than 20% if you're keeping track (and given that my Goodreads total for the year is over 90, I really should have tried to squeeze in more of the original shelf). But I read more than 20 books beyond my ori...

There are two main shelves I wanted to include in the library tour that didn't make it into the original photo shoot. First, the writing reference shelf. This is all of my books on writing craft (along with the dictionaries and a few books of church skits). Gardner's The Art of Fiction is worthwhile. Then, there's the bedroom shelf. I featured this shelf in my reading goals post at the start of the year but it's changed a bit since then, so let's revisit it. (There may be a few books here that were already shown in previous library posts, but that's because they migrated between pictures. There are also a few books that migrated from this shelf to the library between pictures, and thus are not shown at all. Poor neglected things.) Books from giveaways, books from Christmas, and nonfiction. Fantasy, lit fic, mystery, and ongoing series reads. Currently in progress: The Mysterious Affair at Styles , The Fact of a Body , The Great Divorce...

Welcome back to the bookshelf tour. No lengthy intro, just more and more books! This first picture is not from the alphabetical order. It's the short stack of books that's set to replace books from the bedroom shelf as they're read. Riddle-Master is a reread, as is Beauty . The rest are books I just need to read. The Ns, from Kim Newman to Mary Norton. (Notice the complete, chronologically ordered Old Kingdom/Abhorsen series. I still need to read Nix's Keys to the Kingdom.) Also, there's Charlie Bone still to be read in there. So many series I've yet to start. All of the Borrowers books, along with the Firebirds anthologies and the Dragonlover's Guide to Pern . Again, I still need to read most of these. Uprooted , Robert C. O'Brien, and more. No, I haven't been tempted to reread Uprooted a half dozen times since I read it. Why do you ask? The Crossroads trilogy, Auralia's Colors , and Ovid. The Magic and the ...