I think I need to take airplane flights more often. I got quite a bit of reading done in February because of this, and now I feel like I'm slacking in March. (I'm not...it just feels that way.) Night of Cake and Puppets was a companion novella to Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone [...]
I will unabashedly admit that my entire Moroccan experience last June was most definitely inspired by Laini Taylor. Largely, by her Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy. Much like Prague had been (which I talked about extensively some years ago!). Once I read about Arabian sunsets and camel-rides in deserts, once I got a taste of what [...]
Another Book Traveling Thursday post, yay! I've got to say I love doing these, because it gives me opportunity to look up different book covers and oggle at the really pretty ones! Book Traveling Thursday is a book meme that involves book covers from different parts of the world. Rules include picking a book according [...]
Initial Thoughts: *sobs* This was a love-hate. I love-hate myself for love-hating the last book of what I found as a terribly beautiful trilogy. And it was SO GOOD. Up until I got around 200 pages of story that got thrown in there just to make people SUFFER. So I'm crying inside here. I can't [...]
Initial Thoughts: Dead. I have died and Karou needs to exist to glean my soul into a thurible so she can resurrect me as a monster. This book hurts so much it's a miracle that I'VE not learned the power of invisibility (because in the book, magic is caused by a sort of pain). And [...]
Story and Somnomancy 