Hello!

A belated and somewhat shorter post this week, as I have spent the last few days curled up with a headache from hell which kept me away from the computer and from reading to a large extent. It was also the first anniversary of my Dad’s death, so my reading mojo has been somewhat absent.

Saying that I did manage to re-read the first two books in the Protector of the Small Quartet (‘First Test’ and ‘Page’) by Tamora Pierce, and I intend to get to the last two in the next week or so. These are some of my childhood favourites that for me at least have really held up to the test of time, and I find myself going back to them repeatedly (Along with the Song of the Lioness Quartet and the Immortals Quartet). I am super-hyped for the possibility of these books being adapted for television/film, and slightly worried because these books have always been important to me – and they told me that girls could be knights!

I also stumbled across a copy of ‘The Last Unicorn’ by Peter S Beagle at work, so I had to snag it and read it, as that remains one of my favourite animated films of all time (I love the world, the music, everything really). It’s also one of those rare cases, and probably because I’ve seen the film so many times and from such a young age, where I prefer the adaptation to the book, although that isn’t to say that I didn’t love the book. I did and would highly recommend it.

I’m continuing to work my way through ‘Spark City’ by Robert. J. Power and ‘North Child’ by Edith Pattou, and I have just started on ‘The Rage of Dragon’s’ by Evan Winter and ‘The Final Empire (Mistborn)’ by Brandon Sanderson.

To round out this short post, I also have a mini-book haul (I made the error of going to the bookshops in town, even after I’d bought the one book ‘The Waking Fire’ by Anthony Ryan that I’d gone to get because I want to give it a second chance).

The Clive Cussler books I have read before, but I lost part of my collection, and I’m slowly building it up again, and I am very much looking forward to re-reading these three. ‘The Silver Brumby’ was a nostalgic buy, as I was an avid fan of the cartoon when I was growing up but had never actually read the book (despite having shelves dedicated to pony stories as a child), and I’m interested to see how it compares. I still have to read the first book of The Ascension Cycle by David Mealing, but I really like the premise so I decided to go ahead and buy the ‘Blood of the Gods’ too, while ‘The Orphanage of Gods’ by Helen Coggan is one I had been eyeing before Christmas.

So, I have more books for the growing TBR mountain,

Rowena

P.S. In writing news I have discovered the joys of World Anvil, and as I get deeper into editing it has been a godsend and it’s so encouraging to look at your timeline and realise that your scattered notes actually make sense.