#Deverry

[coloursofunison]

It's Audiobook Appreciation Month, and here is why I love audiobooks

It's Audiobook Appreciation Month, and here is why I love audiobooks (and not just my own) #Audiobook @BoldwoodBooks @BookandTonic #BoldAudio @IsisAudio #KingOfKings @mattcolesvocal @mcvo

As with all things kindle and ebooks related, I was not quick to adapt to audiobooks. In fact, I really struggled with them for some time. I was happy to have my books available as audiobooks, but I didn’t really like or understand the allure of it. Until. Well, there’s always an until. I’d listened to a few audios on my daily walks before I hit upon how it really worked for me. They help me…

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#Audiobooks #Boldwood Books #Deverry #Discworld #historical fiction #King of Kings #M J Porter #PERN

[cozcat]

sometimes i just have to sit here and scream internally about Jill from the Deverry series because she is everything to me

#i just. i will finish this series i've only read half of and then i will claw a fandom into being!!! #deverry #katharine kerr

[futuremercifulnerd]

Older dark fantasy hits different 😩🤌

#i got into the deverry cycle last summer #it took me like 9 mo ths to finish book 1 because of reasons but its so good and i just started book 2 yesterday #itll take me awhile to catch up because i tend to read one off books between each book in a series lol #its been going since the 80s lol #i got most of the first two acts at hpb im only missing 2 out of the 8 books #theres like 20 in total 😂

[othercat2]

TFW You Read a Book Review

Where you have to wonder if the reader actually read the book, or sat on the book for an hour and then wrote the review. (Instead of reading the book.)

I'm slightly exasperated by reviews I've been seeing for Witch King where the reviewer says, "I was lost and I didn't understand what was going on!" (My favorite was the guy claiming he didn't understand the purpose behind the Rising World Alliance. I'm convinced he must have sat on the book instead of reading it.) I'm exasperated and confused because I had no problem figuring out the story and how the past and future parts interacted with each other. It was a single POV with two timelines, one taking place in the present of the story and one taking place in the past.

The POV was further limited to a single traumatized character who (in the past) doesn't know very much about the world beyond his culture. While in the present we have the same traumatized character who knows more about the world and has been through some very dramatic shit and has been shaped by those experiences into a very (justifiably) suspicious person who keeps his plans close to his chest.

There ARE some jumps in reasoning that don't make sense. Kai-Enna comes to conclusions that come off as unreasonable but are understandable in context. There are also some issues with getting on board with the past/present shifts. But that's usually the case when you're working with a format that contains more than one timeline.

But again, single character point of view, the past bits provide background to how the Rising World Alliance formed, the issues Kai-Enna is having with Not Wanting the Alliance to Become Another Empire Seriously We Got Ride of the Old Empire We Don't Need a New One Guys.

(I think the reviewers' brains would have exploded if they'd tried to read anything by Jo Clayton. She tended to play with POV and IIRC, in one of her books the "past" bits are in reverse order of the present bits, until they meet at the end. Also: there were multiple POVs. Who knows what they'd make of the Deverry novels--those books had a braided format between frigging reincarnations of the same characters and I could never keep the timelines straight.)

Another annoying complaint is "I didn't understand all the weird names." But the naming conventions aren't any more weird than any other secondary-world fantasy I've read?

#witch king #martha wells

[manicr]

10 Fandoms/10 characters/10 tags

@darerebel Thank you for the tag! I'll try my best!

Marvel (all mediums) - Bullseye

Sandman - The Corinthian

Hannibal - Hannibal Lecter

Doctor Who - The Master

Discworld - Death

BtvS - Spike

DC (all mediums) - Mr. Zsasz

Killing Eve - Vilanelle

The Deverry Cycle - Rhodry

Malazan - Picker

Tagging: @the-graves-family, @gealach-in-a-misty-world, @honmyoseagull, @gravesinc, @li-izumi, @lex-munro, @lairofthewyrm, @teal-bandit, @monsieuroverlord & @muchymozzarella

#aahaha this got hard #I'm so special interested that I struggled to get to 10 #bullseye brainrot in the way #I need more bamf ladies #villanelle and picker only on the list

[merinnan]

Thanks, @foxofninetales!

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags

Rules: name 10 of your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 others to do the same. Let’s gooooooo!

1. Liu Sang, Daomu Biji (Nanpai Sanshu)

2. Gul Dukat, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

3. Shen Wei, Guardian (priest)

4. Tenoh Haruka/Sailor Uranus, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon (Takeuchi Naoko)

5. Fei Du, Mo Du (priest)

6. Nie Huaisang, Mo Dao Zu Shi/Chen Qing Ling (Mo Xiang Tong Xiu)

7. Mogget, The Old Kingdom Chronicles (Garth Nix)

8. Jill, The Deverry Cycle (Katherine Kerr)

9. Granny Weatherwax, Discworld (Terry Pratchett)

10. Jimmy the Hand, The Riftwar Cycle (Raymond E Feist)

It was surprisingly difficult to narrow it down to only 10!

Tagging: @amidalogicdive @xantissa @1ebilcat @sans-crayola @taomubiji @scaredysap @kholran @s1utspeare @psychic-waffles​ @epicwalrus​

#tag games #10 characters 10 fandoms 10 tags

[jonaswpoetry]

Questions 7 and 15: interesting fact about yourself and your favorite book?

An interesting fact about me, when I already just posted one... if you were to etymologically dissect my surname it would (approximately, and by my own researching) mean: home of the son of one who lives by a water source.

My favourite book? A tough one, there are so many! My frequent go-to is Confessions of a Fallen Angel by Ronan O'Brien as I've adored it for many years. A more recent read I absolutely loved was Humankind by Rutger Bregman, it was exactly the dose of optimism I needed and I would wholeheartedly recommend it. My favourite series of books (although there are again many) is Katharine Kerr's Deverry cycle. After finishing all 15 books (over some years as I slowly collected them) I immediately started over again because I couldn't bear to leave her world behind. I was so delighted when she announced a new trilogy set in Deverry.

Thank you for the questions :)

[happymeishappylife]

Books I’ve Read in 2022 - Part 3

21. Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz

One of Koontz’s typical suspenseful thrillers, leads a broken down father on a hair raising adventure as he tries to figure out why a mysterious woman is taking photographs of his wife’s and daughters’ gravesite when they died in a deadly plan crash a year ago. His exploration of it, using his journalist background, leads him around the southwest, meeting others connected to the victims or the investigation of the crash and a secret government agency that has been tried to be covered up for a long time. Plus it tries to bring this man closure while he also realizes he’s been running for his life.

22. The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton

A really beautiful and fascinating story about how one house and the unfortunate circumstances that happen in it in the 1800s leads to connections of people who visit and unknowingly become connected to each other. Following the perspectives of a woman trying desperately to connect to her dead mother right before her wedding, we see how her search of a house from her childhood stories unravels the mysteries of it including the background story of Birdie, the now resident ghost of the house. It was cool to see the different stories all throughout history and while the past is tragic, it is also comforting to see it from a ghost’s perspective.

23. The Bride Wore Black Leather by Simon R. Green (Novel #12 of the Nightside Series)

And at long last, I’ve come to the end of the Nightside and the adventures of John Taylor. It was fun though and I very much enjoyed the series exploring the dark and haunted land underneath Proper London. The action in in the novel is great, especially as John Taylor feels suddenly alone like he did in the first novel, but I’ll admit, since this is the Nightside we’re talking about, I felt a little let down by the whole ‘Oh and all my friends were on my side the whole time, just lying to me, in order to stop the threat and save the Nightside’. Like it felt a little bit too happy. Still it was also fun to see it come full circle with Cathy being the one helping John throughout when he only came back to the Nightside on a case to save her.

24. Hollow Earth by John and Carole E. Barrowman

What if your imagination could bring things to life? Well in this novel, two preteen twins learn that not only are they a part of a secret order of artists that can bring drawings to life, but that they are caught of in a mix of danger and scandal as their powers keep growing because their parents should have never had relations in the first place. The pacing is set right as the beginning as Matt and Emily Calder escape London with their mom and travel to a remote island in Scotland to meet their grandfather and better train their powers. But the threat is still there when their grandfather gets hurt and their mom disappears. While this book solved some problems it definitely sets up for a series, so I’ll be curious to see where it goes.

25. Days of Blood and Fire by Katherine Kerr (Book #7 of the Deverry Novels)

Picking up right where the last novel left off, we get to see Jill in full sorceress mode as she works to protect the Dunn of the future mother to the unborn/reborn form of Evandar’s daughter, a danger made more real as her mysterious figure of a mother threatens the real world. I really enjoyed this novel, except for the constant need to have Rhodry constantly have sex and fall in love with every woman that he meets which is very annoying, but truthfully right when I was ready to keep going the book ended. I mean come on! We just met a dragon!

26. The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali

This is such a touching novel even if it is so tragically heartbreaking. It tells the tale of Roya and Bahman as they fall in love as teenagers in Tehran right before the 1950s coup that overthrows the Prime Minister. Torn apart by a cruel and twisted plot that involves the backstory of Bahman’s mother and the owner of the stationery shop where the two meet, they go on to live different lives, married to other people, only to discover when its too late the truth about their past. Its hard, but loving and makes you appreciate the chances you should take to stay with the people you care about as well as understanding that influences outside your control lead your life in different directions, but not all bad ones.

27. The Dresden Files: Side Jobs by Jim Butcher

A collection of side stories written in between the other Dresden Novels, you get to see not only more of our favorite characters in between the fallout of the other novels, but also get perspectives we never see in the books. One of those is Thomas as he works in the mysteries of Harry to protect and help vanquish a war that no one knows about. It was nice seeing not only how Thomas operates day to day, but also how much he cares for his brother. I also loved the last story through the eyes of Karrin Murphy. While I still don’t like the idea of her and Harry ending up together as the novels and other stories suggest they will, it was nice to see how much she could handle herself without Dresden. I also appreciated that Jim put in his very first small excerpt he wrote to pitch this series because its a reminder to all writers that we all start from somewhere and just because people say no at the time, doesn’t mean the idea is bad or that we can’t grow our skills.

#2022 rewind #books i've read in 2022

[celticcrossanon]

I was tagged by @hugyourhaters

Rules: tag 9 people you’re interested in getting to know better

Favourite colour: I gravitate towards blues, greens, purples, and crimson/wine colours, but I will choose what fits my mood at the time, and I like all colours. I am currently into sunset colours.

Currently reading: I am re-reading the Deverry series by Katharine Kerr, Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield, and my Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy L Sayers.

Last song: To long ago to remember.

Last series: Book series above, TV is Masterchef AU.

Last movie: Too long ago to remember (back in the long lost days of being able to sit for the length of a movie). I do DVDs nowadays.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: All of them (I like variety).

Currently working on: Staying awake ;)

Tagging: anyone who wants to do this :)

[lenskij]

mid-year book tag 📚

I’m pretending that @andalusi​ tagged me :P I see a book tag game, and I do it...

amount of books you’ve read so far: 37

best book you’ve read so far in 2022: Klaus Mann’s Mephisto. Hands down the best book I’ve read, ever.

best sequel you’ve read so far in 2022: Fonda Lee’s Jade Legacy. It’s the final book of the Green Bones Saga, easily one of the best contemporary fantasy series. Strong world-building and great characters!

new release you haven’t read yet, but want to: I still haven’t gotten my hands on Lara Elena Donnelly’s new novel Base Notes ;w;

most anticipated release for the second half of the year: Mary Robinette Kowal is publishing a new book, The Spare Man!

biggest surprise favorite new author (debut or new to you): I read Lyudmila Ulitskaya for the first time this year, and I loved it! Her prose is beautiful.

newest fictional crush: lol I haven’t had one of those in years

book that made you cry: .... I haven’t cried from a book this year. The closest I came was when I was reading Die Nacht in Lissabon and had to stare at the wall for a few minutes to gather myself.

book that made you happy: I get giddy whenever I read the Vorkosigan Saga, it’s so delightful to read. I’m rereading it this year, and trying to pace myself so that the series lasts longer :P

most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received): I haven’t bought any books this year because of my hard and fast rule not to buy new books until I’ve read the ones I already own.

what books do you need to read by the end of the year? Well, there is no such thing as “need“ when it comes to reading for fun, but I’m doing the Storygraph’s Reading the World challenge and have a few prompts yet to fill. Also I want to finish the Ursula K Le Guin Hainish collection, and make a dent in my pile of Deverry books.

tagging: @vera-dauriac, @dormirosol, @klingonegin & everyone else who sees this and wants to do it!

#tag game #liz talks

[cozcat]

are you a big reader? have you read anything good lately?

I FORGOT I DIDN'T RESPOND TO THIS but yeah i guess you could say i'm a big reader at [checks storygraph] 93 books this year. so I'll give you five highlights from recently.

I finished the Deverry series by Katharine Kerr, and although I wasn't overwhelmed by the ending, I wasn't expecting to be - I did, however, still enjoy it, and it's a series I'd recommend if you want a sprawling and complex high fantasy involving reincarnation across the centuries. (that being said: it's pretty committed to very Traditional Gender Roles as it's based on a Dark Ages-equivalent society. so go in knowing that.)

Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher is a very fun medieval YA about two royals, betrothed since birth, who hate each other's guts, but enter an uneasy alliance when they each find out the other is queer.

the Nevermoor series by Jessica Townsend is middle grade fantasy about a neglected and lonely child who is suddenly whisked away on the eve of what should be the day of her death to compete for a place in a magical society in a place called Nevermoor and it is so fun. I read it wanting a recommendable replacement for a certain other series that has a similar sounding premise but this is so good, very much stands on its own (you kinda have to twist your words to make it sound as similar as I did and the resemblance does fall away pretty quickly). also it's nice to read about normalised queer characters in a series for kids.

Still Life With Bones by Alexa Hagerty is a fascinating autobiography about her work in Guatemala and Argentina, excavating mass graves from the wars there. Hagerty is not a forensic anthropologist but rather a (I believe) social anthropologist, so a lot of the book is talking to the living, not merely about the dead.

and Small Island by Andrea Levy, quite frankly, blew me away. this is about Jamaican immigrants to the UK after World War Two, and their experiences during and after the war, as well as those of the white woman who takes them in as lodgers. beautifully written, deeply emotional, it ripped my heart out. honestly, I don't have the words for how much I loved this. (and although I watched it a few years ago, I'd say now, having read the book, that it is an excellent adaptation.)

yeah there's been some bangers this year

#ask box #anonymous #reply

[nezumidoll]

So how is January going?

...I am tired. In pain. Been kinda sick since the office Christmas party.

On the plus side : I have a cute cat in my lap.

Have read 5/70 books so far in 2024. Not bad. Really loved Rhythm of War by Sanderson and The Martian by Andy Weir. And The Carroll Shelby story was very interesting. Soon finished with the fourth book in the Deverry cycle by Katherine Kerr, also a good read.

Currently reading:

- Dragonflight by Anne MacCaffrey

- The Dragon Revenant by Katherine Kerr

- Deadhouse gates by Steven Erikson

Some things I want to read this year:

- something by Ursula K Le Guin

- finish The Winterlands quartet by Hambly (2 left)

- more Robin Hobb

- Mythos/Heroes/Troy by Stephen Fry

- The Stand

- more Jim Butcher

- more Neal Stephenson

- some Eddings

- that book by Dr Becky Smethurst I have in my shelf

- Warbreaker by Sanderson

- Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch

- To sleep in a sea of stars

#nezumidoll #personal shit

[lejardindefeunouille]

It's my first post here and I'm beggining with a fanart I'm very proud of because nobody draw about this book.

I present you Jill the mercenary from The Deverry's Cycle written by the great Katharine Kerr.

I hope the Deverry's fans will find it and enjoy it as much as I enjoyed drawing it.

#deverrycycle #daggerspell

[vtgbooks]

Katharine Kerr DRAGONSPELL THE SOUTHERN SEA DEVERRY 4 1993 Vintage FANTASY Book

#bluemelodybooks #vintagebook #bookaesthetic #academism #vintagebooks #bookcore #oldbooks #bookcover

[444names]

pokemon + plants common names + animals + roman deities

Alibo Alles Allianer Alloot Almousa Ambstaby Amous Andeat Aneackoi Anebern Angon Antempaped Anterflon Anthwors Antish Anuanke Aplaprel Applemerp Arcatutte Arose Arros Aserch Ashawk Askhangbut Astes Batty Bayfis Beedbluee Beedly Below Beroadorn Beroundis Berry Bineantush Birdslumed Birildgark Blackrayin Blacta Bladsh Blarmer Bluckally Blumar Boketandis Bokey Bonak Bonemulap Bonink Bonkcata Brotter Buckeyoak Bulacobige Bustlecan Cabby Cabon Cabuse Cangle Catyrortam Cefisticer Cerroodes Chadblaor Chaldcra Champarkak Chard Chawk Chearlicur Chedaselo Chell Chepir Chionia Chisey Chushamp Clame Clebrivird Cletrorn Clonwoot Clowl Clucalicat Cocerichme Coctyroost Cokina Colerayfer Colibiry Colivin Colly Conidgeod Conillia Copplemoot Corch Cottoftma Creops Cressundor Crocch Crose Crumch Curus Cyteme Delue Deragly Dernefona Deverry Devianax Dinbirch Dindros Distinguad Dites Doragey Drord Drowradber Duustark Dyberrena Eappeflac Earwordia Echear Eerrod Eggcrel Egroonflue Ekmaple Ellar Erfer Faircurnta Falibox Farrouna Faunia Faurvysale Favolilly Feash Feleoa Fetars Feveon Fevipoeban Flona Flovel Flown Foomagle Footton Fordfel Fulboodo Fumperaf Gamaternus Garlifon Garthydo Gatorabut Geroale Gibbirist Gilder Glona Goaker Goldoak Gonak Gonberoco Gonus Gonwory Gooddia Gortur Granterow Graple Gratern Grivy Grottortia Grous Hados Hammily Hamular Handail Hawbel Heasea Hedbragia Hedparry Hedpart Hedpeed Hemine Herravon Herrous Herry Hipplarpie Hisello Hogampark Holifowee Hounatello Igeong Inbitra Indcher Inotais Ivibona Jagoodrata Junkey Jupide Jupik Jutack Juven Kaccod Kadne Kalbatah Kanus Kazole Kinaer Kingeyot Krawk Kunush Laccar Lachalweed Lacke Lackin Lackly Lacroconia Lemart Libbater Libitton Liboke Libus Licark Licket Licoes Licuruebra Lilow Lilsecat Lindley Llowt Lowdross Lummiter Magbine Magen Maildtat Manatous Mandle Maphartle Maplark Maproon Masharm Matumnutte Meflowbira Meflypus Mefrum Melfox Mennose Messia Metoish Meweena Mildcon Mildfis Milverhu Mindever Mingmapig Mirie Miterry Moctyraver Monyte Moommetch Morthem Mounew Mummon Munus Necar Neele Nocker Norcharlia Nutte Ocebee Omorak Opplewoot Ortle Oruelfly Pearna Perrowwor Perry Pesse Phinetass Pidge Pigua Pikak Pikat Piket Pinar Pindsha Pirlistle Placina Poill Poistas Poistipped Poistle Pokeectach Pokeed Polilver Polionk Polturn Polush Pombla Ponwoo Popantas Popanytuse Pophena Poputtle Porna Posatern Potcronin Praart Pratfis Praybar Pricab Prinuto Prioleern Priver Quingeow Quirdva Quita Raccous Radlet Ralifow Randwo Rapdora Rellax Renodin Renommot Restle Rhyhork Rimpapird Ritaroot Rockana Rockiway Rogweed Roselly Roush Rover Rumbla Sanna Sauniggly Scark Scoldchana Scrocke Seansyroot Sentas Sildrus Skinch Skungares Slantich Slust Sness Snidentum Snorus Snose Sombleme Spacenrvy Sparitas Spbeek Spber Speandber Spear Spesse Spickoak Squit Squitelue Squitish Starswamer Stommeweed Strickweed Stroothith Sugarle Sumengenwo Sumer Sustis Swamapeak Sweed Sweepleed Sweezeed Swelet Swerhee Swilderry Swilsna Swingtrena Swole Tandord Taspbaorm Temus Terbug Terry Thenundia Thermaple Thish Tiguaw Toilk Tomnus Trafox Tromber Trottor Tulgorsana Tumna Tunemerne Turus Upinet Upistingle Veray Verbea Verry Verswale Vilveon Vireyel Viribban Viring Vuliwilved Vulle Wagehess Wagle Wakey Waldcreed Walde Waldem Wallnumst Wamas Wambagness Wameod Wamstveek Wastreet Water Waterry Watiper Watoish Weeono Whadge Whaequana Wharos Whaureedma Whish Whisy Widuckat Wigep Wilkth Winbeckana Wingasa Winnoss Wintampine Woleus Woranta Wordtasna Worsney Woruinnint Wounkbell Yeleflo Yellbookey Yellort Yelowliber Yenut Yerry Zaple Zewhightsh

#name stash #444names #444 names #dnd names #character names #markov namegen #markov name generation #markov #markov gen

[justintimeworlds]

Do you build fantasy worlds? Do you read fantasy and wonder how people build their magic systems? Do you enjoy analyzing fantasy worlds? This video is for you. I discuss magic system types, how to use them and the 3 rules of magic systems by Brandon Sanderson. I’ll also tell you why I hated the introduction of Vision into the Marvel universe and how it relates to Sanderson’s rules :) 

#magic #fantasy #worldbuilding #magicrealism #magic system #brandon sanderson #jim butcher #mistborn #dresden files #a song of ice and fire #deverry #katherine kerr #marvel #vision #age of ultron #robert jordan #mercedes lackey #valdemar #wheel of time