Where are you in Fantasyland, September 2016?

Starting new thread. Also started Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig.

Checking out post-apocalypse America in The Infinite Sea.

I finished Spiritwalk by Charles deLint. I'm glad I was able to go right into it after Moonheart, which was so great, because the second book is more like a really long epilogue rather than a new plotline. It ties up all the loose ends, and it was enjoyable to have another visit to Tamson House.

Headed to Ankh-Morpork in search of the Fifth Elephant with the Watch.

More sci-fi than fantasy but I am on New World, where there is Chaos Walking by Patrick Ness. These have been on the tbr forever and now I'm wondering why as I am really enjoying them. More questions about morality and how good people do bad things in this than most "adult" literature.

It's back to the Six Duchies with a Golden Fool.

Having given up & started Fire & Ice before Martin finishes, I've now just started A Feast for Crows.
At least now, when someone works "Winter is Coming" into an ad or a text of some kind, I recognize the reference.

Finished A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede. Liked the first story better than the second.

Reading A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore.

>8 seitherin: I will be interested in your opinion of A Dirty Job. I am just starting to explore Moore's books, and find them to be a very mixed bag, so I'm hoping to track down some of the better ones.

>9 Darth-Heather: I've only read three other Moore books and none of them were more than just entertaining in a mindless sort of way. I tend to read those types of books when I'm bored with reading and just want to distract myself.

I just finished Fool's Assassin. It was great! Interesting problems and characters, the story moved right along. I read it quickly even though it's a big book. I look forward to the next in the series.

The Aeronaut's Windlass: good.
The Summer Dragon: very good.
Spirits That Walk in Shadow: not quite so good, though I can see the strengths in Hoffman's writing.
Heir to the North: not far from the end, intriguing.

>9 Darth-Heather:
Finished A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. I enjoyed the book much more than I was expecting. I even chuckled a few times.

>13 seitherin: I'm glad to hear that - this one sounded like it had potential. I'm going to add it to my wishlist!

I don't recommend Fluke.

>14 Darth-Heather: I think you've linked to the wrong Fluke (James Herbert) if you meant the one by Christopher Moore (Fluke: I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings). Hmm. It didn't look like it might be my cup of tea. Thanks for the heads up.

>15 seitherin: oh. yes. I thought I had clicked on the correct choice, but sometimes I'm not very good at LT things. I'm learning :)

I thought Fluke sounded interesting, but it turned out weird. I usually like weird, but this was not well done.

14, 15, 16: Isn't Fluke the book in which a couple of female marine biologist are essentially raped by a sperm whale, and yet somehow we're meant to find this degradation funny? Yeah, that does not sound like my thing at all. Of all the Christopher Moore books I've read about, Fool sounds like the one I might find most appealing, despite its inevitable tragic ending.

I'm in District 13 watching as the Mockingjay takes on the Capital.

One last trip through the Six Duchies to determine a Fool's Fate.

Currently reading Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet by Charlie N. Holmberg.

Now reading Poison Study, 1st in a series by Maria Snyder.

>21 nrmay: I love the whole Study series. Maria Snyder is such a good writer.

I'm in northern Rus', in late winter, "...the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow." That's from the first line of The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden, an adult retelling of a Russian fairy tale. The weather has only gotten worse as the story progresses and it's giving me a feeling of foreboding as my winter approaches.

Reading Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig.

I'm jumping back and forth in time on various planes of existence in Jerusalem.

I've been in an alternate Victorian London conducting A study in ashes.

Finished Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig. I liked this book slightly better than the first.

Next up is The Free by Brian Ruckley.

Finished Burned, Benedict Jacka's latest Alex Verus book. A very good entry in the Dresden Files-like series, but I wasn't too happy to find it end with a cliffhanger, mid-action-y ending (unlike the others which were more self-contained). I hope it's from a longer book being split in two, and that the next will come out sooner than a year from now.

Closing out the month by jumping into what looks like it'll be a dungeon-crawly sort of adventure with The Copper Promise.