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Mendalla
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In an attempt to get my reading fires burning again, I picked a fairly interesting-sounding fantasy novel called Arcanum from my library's My Libby electronic collection and started reading it. Author is Simon Morden, an award winning sff author so that's promising. Setting is an alternative Europe where Christianity (and Islam, but that's less relevant to the story) didn't happen and magic works. Rome still fell, the Germanic tribes still took over Europe, but they remain pagan and an order of wizards called hexmasters wields a fair bit of power. The Goths use of magic helped in the sack of Rome, for instance, but that's a millennium in the past at the time of the story (so it's c. 1410CE on our calendar, but with no Christianity, they don't use the BC/AD dating). There's monsters, too, with some nasty giants appearing right in the first chapter. Unicorn horns are playing a key role in one of the plot threads (probably going to be the main one, I think).
Well-written but has the same problem I found with A Game of Thrones: Each chapter has a viewpoint character and there are several viewpoint characters, so that things jump around quite a bit. There's crossover between character arcs, though, so that may smooth out with time.
Well-written but has the same problem I found with A Game of Thrones: Each chapter has a viewpoint character and there are several viewpoint characters, so that things jump around quite a bit. There's crossover between character arcs, though, so that may smooth out with time.
JayneWonders
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i'm reading books that have sat on a real-life bookshelf for years.
This week it is Tuesdays with Morrie.
This week it is Tuesdays with Morrie.
Mendalla
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I am actually going to see if the library has a dead tree copy. If it's a large book, though, I might stick with ebook. With my arthritic fingers, not sure I can handle a doorstopper as well as I can a tab or e-reader.
Delightful Life
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aged like fine wine ;3
GordW
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LAst week I finished Life After Doom by Brian McLAren. It is a book about responding to CLimate Change however I found in a number of places the discussion could feed into other areas (like the future of the church since that is sort of a topic of interest of mine).
Right now I am reading Theology in a Digital World by David Lochhead. This is an early book in the field (1988, with he first chapter originally a lecture given in 1984) but it is highly prescient IMO. Lochhead raises issues that we are still (albeit in different ways) trying to work through now. This is part of my SAbbatical this summer
Right now I am reading Theology in a Digital World by David Lochhead. This is an early book in the field (1988, with he first chapter originally a lecture given in 1984) but it is highly prescient IMO. Lochhead raises issues that we are still (albeit in different ways) trying to work through now. This is part of my SAbbatical this summer