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Given the amount of World of Warcraft I've been playing over the past couple of months, I think it's fitting that the last Bookish Owl post of the year will be Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden. I'm not even joking. All this social distancing has resulted in me ...
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Tonight we're going with a horror fairy tale: House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A. Craig. This book was a great mix of fantasy and horror, and that's a genre we need more of! (That's a barely disguised request for fantasy horror suggestions in the comments. Just in case ...
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We're going Down Under - to Foureks, obviously - in The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett. No worries. Any Discworld novel featuring Rincewind and the wizards of Unseen University is bound to be weird. Throw in time travel and a couple of kangaroos, and it gets even weirder. Which is ...
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The book we're covering in this post is The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley! First off: I am not sure what I expected going into this book, but I can safely say that it wasn't that I got. This book is weird, in a way that shouldn't work, but ...
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It seems fitting that we're arriving at a winter fairy tale today with The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. This was a beautifully written and engaging story that read like a Russian fairy tale. There are character you will adore and characters you will hate passionately, as well as ...
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It's turtle time with Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. This Discworld book is a great and funny commentary on the nature of religion, and how easily it can be abused and used to control people. It also teaches you a lot about tortoises. Most of all, I really loved the ...
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Today Artemis presents the last book in the Daevabad Trilogy - The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty! The first book in this series didn't grab me from the beginning, but oh boy, how that changed. From halfway through City of Brass until the very end of the trilogy, this story was packed ...
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We're taking a break from our scheduled book content to give you a gaming post. This is, of course, in celebration of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, the new expansion to the game I have been playing for 15 years, like some loon with game Stockholm Syndrome. Even though I have ...
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Today we have a new author to me, since the book is This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab. After reading posts from this author on Twitter for years, I finally decided to try one of her books. I'll admit that after reading the blurb I did fear it would ...
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The week speeds past, and before you know it, it's time for another Top Ten Tuesday post. This week the topic is 'Characters I Would Name a Pet After', so I had to think about all my potential future pets. If I end up impulsively adopting ten animals tonight, I ...
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