I ramble about books. I pick a book that I read and I liked and then I talk about it, maybe with a point, maybe not. Mostly I just want to share with people how much fun I have reading and seeing the world through the printed page. I can't say they'll be good books, great books, meaningful books or anything other than good, silly fun, but it's what I do.
The way thr inn keepsers are isolated reminds me of a young adult series i think its by Brandon Mull. Fablehaven, its about like fairy sanctuaries.....its been a hot minute ince i read them
I said it's a very Welsh name, then went off on it being very much a name of the British Isles, which is England, Ireland Scotland and Wales. I grant, I probably should not have included those others, but I wanted to leave a margin of error in case Angharad turned out to have a surprising popularity not in Wales.
Well, if he thought they are unnatural, he did a very good job of hiding it in this book, because there is nothing in there that reads that way to me. And that only speaks well of his ability as a writer of fiction.
It really is an interesting book. A little outside my usual wheelhouse, but that's why I asked my dad for the recommendation. Good luck with your dissertation, whatever the topic may be.
I liked the other one better. Or maybe not. Your note says copyright 1978, but I don't recall it being that old.🤔 OK, this is the one I liked best. Not liking Honour, having the ugly duckling image. Yep.
I can only go by what's on the copyright page, and that said '78. Thanks for stopping in and leaving a comment. I've just recorded the other, for the record, and that will go live Thursday.
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 no worries, i am sad that you dont get more recognition but you should know that your style is very engaging and fun, i will share your lessons on my website for our school so other people can use it for american literature (with your permission) and maybe it will be somewhat a consolation for you that people so far as turkey, in boğaziçi üniversity will use your resources; in the first american college found outside the us! hope you do get recognized for your talent, cheers for your hard work
Enjoyed listening to it, reading right now and in chapter 1, it does seem to suggest that the Rowan is naturally pale. " - oiling their paler skins with a sun block and then, suddenly, the Rowan was lying supine on the beach blanket as if she was a frequent sunbather. While Moria chattered away about the merits of various tanning preparations, Lusena was positive that the Rowan must be making some bizarre internal adjustments for in the space of about fifteen minutes, she acquired a nice sun-burnishing. Moria stopped mid-spate and stared at the young Prime. ‘I don’t recall you having a tan, Rowan?’ ‘Oh,’ and the Rowan opened one eye drowsily to regard the older girl, ‘I’ve always tanned easily.’" This might suggest that, given her natural skin colour, her having deep black hair might not be a look for her.
@gwencampbell-mindes154 I'm enjoying it so far, definitely seeing Anne's influence on more modern sci-fi franchises. Definitely will be finishing it though, I have a friend who's been nagging me to read it for months now, and she's like a staffy with a bone about it.
@@insertname3977 At least it's not a long book. I'll admit, sci-fi isn't my genre, usually. The thing about Anne's books is that I really like that she has a mostly positive view on the future. She's genuinely leaning into the idea of science making things better in the end, much like Star Trek.
I see you're still on RU-vid so I'll comnent on this. I tried to listen, but all the hesitations, repeating of words, um's etc were not pleasant to listen to
It's a slightly unusual telling, I feel. Also, sorry it took so much extra time to get to this comment, it seems like RU-vid didn't want to tell me this was there.
so the puzzle of Mag's origins and who his parents where was solved in the previous book. I am guessing that the person on the front of the cover is Mag's himself
There's a Frank Herbert book called Destination: Void that I've been through three or four copies because I would read it over and over til it fell apart. THATC and TBS were one of my first re-re-re-reads after Chronicles of Narnia, though. I was wondering if that cover was from the Laprun trials. Ah, Mathin. As an aside, the first and really only AD&D character I ever made was named Tsornin Nalan.
You, know, I'm not sure about where in the story that cover is supposed to be from either, though I would have thought somewhere in that final battle, given that the sword has been lit up, and Harry really didn't seem to get that until the end of the book.
Smaug will always be smog to me. And Maur will always rhyme with "far". This is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid. I'm here because I was looking for it in audiobook form. I probably read it five or six times before i knew about The Blue Sword. And embarrassingly, it was only a few years ago that I realized TBS was written first, and that BLEW MY MIND!!!!
Oh, that name pronunciation thing. Smaug was always 'smog' to me too, until I started hearing people in TV on RU-vid using the name and pronouncing it 'smawg'.
Do not tell the story in the introduction!!!! She is not able to recount the story with out the word “um” poor poor telling of supposed story!!!!! Spoils the book!!!!!!
I'd always heard that young boys would sneak this book and read it for titillation and of course never seen a version that had all the stories. It made no sense with the versions available. This version sounds pretty interesting, in a very nerdy way!
I've run across a fair bit of, "and she put her legs around his waist and . . ." I suspect many edited versions cut those stories out since there are so many you can lose them and still have a sizeable collection.
It's kind of a really weird series. In a lot of ways, this is a series that works better with a childlike willingness to just go with it, than with an adult attempt to figure out why it's going the way it is.
I recently got this book and found it to be a very interesting read. I really like how the friendship between Amily and her companion has developed since her choosing. I liked how the Priests underestimate her self defence skills when she fights them at the end
I haven't actually listened to this video since I recorded it so I'm not sure what I said. But given the predilections of black robe priests? That sounds about right, actually.
well the Valdemar family where horse breeders so I guess that the Companions taking the form of Magical horses makes sense in some way. I believe the King companion outlines the reason for him to take on the form of a horse by showing the King his original form.
Well, the reasoning for not being in his full-on angelic form is made clear. The horse thing is sort of a varied reason, going from reliable transportation to something relatively innocuous-looking to outsiders.
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 its been a while since I read this book. I understand she explains the origin of the Heralds white uniforms? I have come to understand they might believe in some form of equality.
@@eliotreader8220 I would say it seems mostly like they had the hard-wearing, unusually difficult to stain white cloth that allows the heralds to pop against the regular population, while also finding a specific use for that cloth.
great book review. I really liked reading Valdemar mostly because Sidney the Cat who's passing in the grove had something to do with the Companions arrival from Heaven. I believe he might have come back as one of them.
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 I still find that Sidney was still a very interesting character even if he caused trouble for some of the human characters. I like how he became the coat of arms? for Heaven
She gives some clues and more than clues, but it's a fact, also, that throughout the series the companion deliberately remove the memories of their heralds' discoveries of those implications. It's made somewhat explicit in the Mage Storms trilogy when Karal finds some of it out and is straight up told they don't let the Heralds know.
Well, blue is one of the other colours of Valdemar, but I suspect that the blue cloak on a cover would be as much a visual choice to make an eye-catching image as anything else.
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 I understand that the Kingdom's personal emblem is a winged horse. I believe Lackey mentions Amily's father Herald Nicolas wearing a horse Emblem When Mag's meets him for the first time. do you think they where allowed to wear it as part of Van's reworking of what the Heralds stood for. I have the imagine of Van having this emblem on his Herald whites.
@@eliotreader8220 You can take it that way, I don't think there's anything particularly counter to that. But since companions, which are functionally horses, are such a fundamental part of what Valdemar is, I suspect horse emblems, winged or not, are inevitable.
I read about the founding of Valdemare before I read the Last Herald Mage. I am now reading the arrow series after reading the Vows and Honor series. have I done the right thing by following the time line
I remember these! I could never solve them. I remember one where a girl cried and he figured out she was lying because the tears fell from the wrong corner of her eye. 😆😆😆 I just got to the part where Encyclopedia goes against physics!
It should say spoiler alert but thank you since I lost my book and darn I just wanted the ending. So, Cokey is the one who killed Lyke and killed herself in the end (which is the part I missed). OK, thank you.
Glad to help, I suppose. But I seem to have misspoken. Cokey wasn't the one who killed Lyke. There was another woman he was having an affair with, Natalie Noyton, and she's the one who killed him and herself. Cokey appears in many future books in the series.
Darren? I mean, Rolan has moved on from his previous Chosen to Amily in the previous book, so he has his role as the King's Own Companion. I'm not sure who you mean asking about Darren. Not Daren as in Selenay's husband, younger brother to the King of Rethwellan in the time of the Arrows, Winds and Storms trilogies?
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 I was asking about Mag's companion who is called Daren I believe. I like the friendship that Mags has with his companion. I liked the friendship between Emily and her companion in closer to the Chest which was heart warming. especially when he comforted her when she was upset by getting one of those horrible letters
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 I am sorry that I got the spelling of the name of the Companion wrong. I understand that when Mag's first Met Emily sorry about spelling a character's name wrong again. that she originally had a broken leg from a riding accident. I understand that Bear healed her leg in a later story but I don't which book this takes place in
@@eliotreader8220 Off the top of my head, I don't recall either, though I think it may be the last book of the first Mags series - the Foundations one.
@@gwencampbell-mindes154 I am reading the last Herald mage at the moment and I found it amazing that Lackey referenced the founding some that she would actually write about years later.
@@eliotreader8220 She's been filling in these blanks slowly over the years. She mentioned Vanyel and Lavan Firestorm in Arrows, and later filled in those stories. She filled in Skip and Alberich's backstories after introducing them very loosely in earlier books and once she'd looped the Oathbreaker series into the Velgarth/Valdemar series, she links the Shin'a'in, Tayledras and all into the mainline series.
First Star Trek tie-in book I've ever read, was drawn to it for Lwaxana and Q. Loved Picard's would-be boyfriend and would-be wife trying to make him jealous. You're so right when you talk about how funny this book is: a perfect farce.
The most memorable and culturally relevant aspect of the book was the description of how "Deadeye Dick" became a "neuter." He'd be called an incel now, even though he's more of a voluntary cel, but that was what stood out to me. The rest of the story is pretty thin gruel with occasionally brilliant ideas, like the Chinese subplot which could have been its own book.
I love this series! I really enjoyed hearing someone talking about it! I have loved Mairelon the Magician since 4th grade, and Magician's Ward since 6th grade(when I discovered it existed and decided to buy the series).
