#JustFinished the third book in Tad Williams Otherland series, Mountain of Black Glass.
3/5 stars, I wish I could say they're getting better with each book. Don't get me wrong, they're still good, but the more I read the over descriptions of the virtual environments are getting to me 🤔
I got interested in writing because I read, I told myself stories, and I found I could write stories down.
I also payed roleplaying games, enjoyed GMing, and ran a serialised paper based game - a kind of communal novel. What got me writing novels was a laptop, a caravan in Welsh rain, and time - I was on sabbatical until Christmas.
I used to write little comic books for my brother when I was a teenager, usually involving the antics of our pets. A love of storyteling grew from that...
Give me your poor, your tired, your book quotes yearning to be free... February 29th edition 😁
I'd prefer quotes from your own work, but it can be from any author or book you'd like to share...
Here's my example:
“Philosophers can be both imaginative in their ignorance and ignorant of their ability to imagine.”
-Attercap Skvosip, survivor
From The Last Philosopher
#JustFinished Elves, Trolls and Elemental Beings a collection of Icelandic folktales.
The stories were so so in quality even if I always find lore interesting.
But I found myself curious the theme of missing people? Was children and people going missing super common in these times? Because why else would it be such a common theme in the folktales?
@NickEast@bookreviews@reading I've not read that one, but I read most of these as warning to children: it's a dangerous world out there, so keep your wits about you.
@NickEast@bookreviews@reading Probably not. But the fear of going missing was used as a means of social control, hence the scary legends of what happened when someone did such and such a thing.
@NickEast@reading@bookstodon@bookbubble@books Cotton Crossing. A zombie apocalypse novel by @lilithsaintcrow which I am enjoying quite a bit, and would recommend. I am enjoying the standard tropes but told by a women author. It's nice to see the macho ex military hero being a decent person rather than a testosterone fueled gun shooting bro.