LOL--hippocampus, somehow I don't think I had ever googled the author of the Goblin Emperor, so I knew it was a pseudonym for someone, but not who (but now that I googled her it's in her Wikipedia). I don't think I've ever read her other stuff, is it similar at all?
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
meara - Feb 05, 2019 2:47:17 pm PST #25315 of 28197
-t - Feb 05, 2019 3:26:30 pm PST #25316 of 28197
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The gnoles are awesome, yes to more of them! T. Kingfisher in general is good times.
hippocampus - Feb 05, 2019 3:29:55 pm PST #25317 of 28197
not your mom's socks.
-- Meara she co-wrote one of my favorite space opera short stories of all time. "Boojum". [link] Goblin Emperor has a special place in my heart and I am so very much in favor of more there.
Calli - Feb 05, 2019 3:44:37 pm PST #25318 of 28197
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Ursula Vernon (T. Kingfisher) has a new book coming out later this year, The Twisted Ones. [link]
I'm looking forward to it.
Dana - Feb 05, 2019 3:46:48 pm PST #25319 of 28197
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
As someone mentioned above, I would have enjoyed The Goblin Emperor a lot more if I'd known there was a glossary of names and places in the back of the book.
Consuela - Feb 06, 2019 10:38:24 am PST #25320 of 28197
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It's no secret that Katherine Addison is Sarah Monette. And no, her other work is IMO very different from Goblin Emperor.
Atropa - Feb 06, 2019 1:01:58 pm PST #25321 of 28197
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Authorized sequels to work by deceased authors: the level of lurid crazy by the ghostwriters for V.C. Andrews' estate has really dropped, and I am unreasonably annoyed by that.
Toddson - Feb 07, 2019 11:40:55 am PST #25322 of 28197
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I had looked at some of the Sarah Monette books, since I love The Goblin Emperor so much, but they did sound different ... may not try them out. But the names were hard to keep up with - most of them, I couldn't even figure out how they should be pronounced.
Pix - Feb 07, 2019 5:24:57 pm PST #25323 of 28197
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I LOVE T. Kingfisher! I want more Clocktaur
And I want more about the gnoles.And this!
And I haven't reread the Queens Thief series in a long time. Maybe I should do that...Me too!
I had a hard time getting into the Goblin Emperor. Currently finishing the Thursday Next series, which I started forever ago and then kind of forgot about for awhile. Such silly book-nerd fun.
Gris - Feb 08, 2019 3:07:46 am PST #25324 of 28197
Hey. New board.
My son has officially reached the "devouring tiny chapter books like they are going out of style" phase of his life. From our school library and on his Kindle (thanks libraries!), he has read every Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, every Big Nate book, many many books from the Cam Jansen and Magic Treehouse series, a fair bit of Junie B. Jones, Sideways Stories from Wayside School and so forth.
Any suggestions for comparable books and series that we might have missed that are definitely good? Things available in eBook form are awesome because of the ease of e-library+kindle (e.g. the Bailey School Kids are NOT available in ebook), but anything I can check for in our pretty well-stocked school library would be great too.
I've already tried to get him to read Wild Magic because I love me some Tamora Pierce, but fantasy in general doesn't seem to make him quite as happy as other things. He didn't love the Secret of Droon series either.