{"id":448,"date":"2010-02-02T16:25:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2010-04-24T01:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:06:37","slug":"book-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=448","title":{"rendered":"Book Worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t gotten much reading done the past few months.  I&#8217;ve been busy with a few other distractions.  I did get to finish reading two novels that I really wanted to read.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sharra&#8217;s Exile<\/em> (published in the omnibus, <em>Heritage and Exile<\/em>) by Marion Zimmer Bradley<br \/>\n<em>A Clash of Kings<\/em> (book two of <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>) by George R.R. Martin<\/p>\n<p><em>Sharra&#8217;s Exile<\/em> is indeed a nice rewrite of Bradley&#8217;s earlier <em>Sword of Aldones<\/em>.  The story is fleshed out more while retaining some of the key plot lines from <em>Sword of Aldones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I am really enjoying <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>, and I have a feeling I might like the third book the best.  Without spoiling anything, let&#8217;s just say the third book feels like the climax of the first part of the series.  (I could be wrong, of course, but that&#8217;s my gut feeling about the third book.)  After finishing the second book, I had to dig into the third book a bit and read the prologue, which starts with the same storyline as the first book.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently reading Hamilton&#8217;s <em>The Laughing Corpse<\/em>.  I have to agree that Hamilton is indeed an imaginative writer.  I have to admit that I am at a loss as to who or what the killer is.  Vampire? Zombie?  Vampires don&#8217;t eat brains and zombies don&#8217;t have brains to be a smart killer, so who\/what could it be that is feeding off people but is leaving no substantial clues?  Interesting.  I&#8217;m about halfway through.  So far, I still enjoy Hamilton&#8217;s sassy writing style.<\/p>\n<p>My current reading list:<br \/>\n<em>The Laughing Corpse (an Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel)<\/em> by Laurell K. Hamilton<br \/>\n<em>Year of the Unicorn<\/em> by Andre Norton<br \/>\n<em>Marion Zimmer Bradley&#8217;s Ancestors of Avalon<\/em> by Diana L. Paxson<br \/>\n<em>A Storm of Swords<\/em> (book three of <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em>) by George R.R. Martin<br \/>\n<em>Gormenghast<\/em> (the sequel to Titus Groan) by Mervyn Peake<br \/>\n<em>War and Peace<\/em> by Leo Tolstoy (I am on part three of book two, page 443)<br \/>\n<em>The Spell Sword<\/em> (published in the omnibus, <em>The Forbidden Circle<\/em>) by Marion Zimmer Bradley<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next on my reading list:<br \/>\n<em>Crossroads of Twilight<\/em> (book ten of <em>The Wheel of Time<\/em>) by Robert Jordan<br \/>\n<em>The Transition of Titus Crow<\/em> (published in <em>Brian Lumley&#8217;s Mythos Omnibus<\/em>) by Brian Lumley (or possibly <em>Necroscope<\/em> seeing as I enjoyed Lumley&#8217;s writing, I am curious if I might like his other series as well)<br \/>\n<em>Dark Force Rising<\/em> by Timothy Zahn<\/p>\n<p>~~~C<\/p>\n<div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"medium\" count=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/?p=448\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t gotten much reading done the past few months. I&#8217;ve been busy with a few other distractions. I did get to finish reading two novels that I really wanted to read. Sharra&#8217;s Exile (published in the omnibus, Heritage and Exile) by Marion Zimmer Bradley A Clash of Kings (book two of A Song of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brigidsflame.com\/feymorgaina\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}