Where are you in Fantasyland? May 2018

Hmm. I hope it's ok I started the topic. I have big news!

Been holding off reading the Witchwood Crown until I could get a paper copy. The small (non-atlas-sized) format appeared in the shop today, so that's it, I'm in Osted Ard for the duration.

Where are you currently?

I am working my way through The Widow's House.

Currently in Fells Church trying to see what differs from the tv series. It's crazy how different the books are.

Still Chasing Embers.

I'm still following Moist von Lipwig as he's Raising Steam across the Disc.

Dodging about in The Book of Swords.

Time to start walking the line between the Broken and the Weird with On the Edge.

I'm about to start the voyage to Islandia.

To each their own - but read its LT reviews, a bit of its history, then tell me this isn't a book that demands to be read.

Few people outside Wright’s own family knew he had long been working on an extensive Utopian fantasy about an imaginary country he called Islandia, with an elaborately worked-out history, culture and geography, comparable in scope to J. R. R. Tolkien’s life-long writings of Middle-earth. In his papers he left a 2300-page manuscript of a novel exploring the country, with appendices including a glossary of the Islandian language, population tables, a historic peerage, and a gazetteer and history of each of its provinces. Another book-length manuscript purported to be a general history of the country.

After Wright’s death his widow typed and edited the manuscript for publication, and following her own death in 1937 their daughter Sylvia further edited and cut the text; the novel Islandia, shorn of Wright’s appendices, was finally published in 1942.

This beast is out of print. It took me a couple years of watching for it before I tripped across a copy in a used bookshop last summer.

Started Tiassa by Steven Brust.

Finished Tiassa by Steven Brust. Took a bit of a different storytelling approach to this one.

Taking one last tour of the Old Kingdom with Goldenhand.

I'm in Weep in Strange the Dreamer.

I'm in the City of Bones by Martha Wells.

At the halfway point of Wheel of Time. So far so good. I'm expecting a big slowdown in pace, based on the non-spoiled reviews I've read, so I'm trying to change my expectations and enjoy the ride, until the supposed pick-up in pace at the last three books.

Finished Chasing Embers by James Bennett, Loved the story. Hated the style.

Next up is The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill.

>15 seitherin: The girl who drank the moon is on my tbr pile. I look forward to your thoughts!

It's time to catch up on Nona's story with Grey Sister.

Finished The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. Wonderful, wonderful story about hope and love.

>18 seitherin: I've just started it and am really enjoying it. Love the folktale feel and well-rounded characters.

I just started The Spider's War. Time to see how it all ends.

Beginning a journey that will apparently lead me to "The Forsaken Lands" (based on the series title) in The Lascar's Dagger.

Just finished wading through all the grit and gristle of The Way Knight by Alexander Wallis

I'm in Renthia with The reluctant queen.

I'm in alternate Houston with White Hot.

Finished City of Bones by Martha Wells. Enjoyed it.

Totally love Martha Wells - it's nice to see that her work is becoming more widely read.

June thread - http://www.librarything.com/topic/292022