The Initiate Brother (1991) Gatherer of Clouds (1992) Sean Russell I love to re-read books. There is something about recapturing the joy they gave me the first time, that allows me to pick up some books again and again. But sometimes, time passes, and other books are read, until all that remains is the memory […]

The Last Light of the Sun (2004) Guy Gavriel Kay Good luck finding this book. I came across it only because I was searching Amazon for another of his books, and realized that he had a new book out. Of course I’ve found a lot of books on Amazon recently that I saw nowhere in […]

Magician: Apprentice (1982), Magician: Master (1982) Raymond E. Feist I wanted something that I’d read before as my vacation wound down. For some reason, this book wasn’t as I remembered it. Not that it wasn’t good, only that it wasn’t what I wanted at the time. In retrospect, I think I was remembering The Empire […]

American Gods (2001) Neil Gaiman Sometimes, you just need to read something that you’ve read before and loved. After reading a bunch of new fantasy it was time to re-read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. In some ways, American Gods is the perfect novel for me; It combines mythology and folklore, two of my favorite subjects. […]

The Liveship Traders Trilogy Ship of Magic (1998) The Mad Ship (1999) Ship of Destiny (2000) Robin Hobb The most frustrating thing about this series, is that I didn’t particularly like any of the characters. The story was great, the writing was great, but not only were there characters that I really liked and was […]

The Tawny Man series Fool’s Errand (2002), Golden Fool (2003), Fool’s Fate (2004) Robin Hobb I have two problems with really good books. The first problem is that once I start reading I don’t want to stop–eating, sleeping, everything is secondary to the book. The second problem is that when I finish a book or […]

Legends II (2004) edited by Robert Silverberg I picked up this book just for the Neil Gaiman Shadow story, so the fact that I found it in the bargain bin means that any stories beyond ‘The Monarch of the Glen’ were an added bonus. And ‘Monarch of the Glen’ was good. Very good. It made […]

Thieves’ World: Enemies of Fortune (2004) edited by Lynn Abbey I still haven’t completely decided how I feel about this series. The stories are good, and I enjoy them, but they’re not quite the old ‘Thieves’ World’ and I’m not quite sure what it is that’s missing. As I said, the stories are excellent–Lynn Abbey […]

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword And Sorceress XXI edited by Diana L. Paxson I wasn’t sure that I was going to get the 21st edition of Sword And Sorceress. MZB died, and so I wasn’t certain whether the anthology was going to be continued because it was a quality anthology, or because they were looking to […]