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I should have posted this awhile ago, back when I framed it in the winter. Better late than never. I was telling

semperlego about this, and promised to post pics.

Back in 2017, sounisian

agh_4 carved linoleum blocks into some beautiful artwork representing the countries of the QT world. She was kind enough to send me (and anyone else who requested them at the time) prints of her work and, ever since, I'd wanted to do more with them than just have them sitting here.

Finally, I framed them and hung them on an art wall in my house. They are so beautiful! I hope you enjoy them.

agh_4, if you're still around LJ, chime in here!

( See the lovely lovely prints! )

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Enjoying your extra week with Sophos?

All good things must come to an end, unfortunately, but don't sweat! You've still got time to finish catching up with Bunny Mankiller. The chat to discuss A Conspiracy of Kings will take place in the Conspiracy Room, this Sunday, June 25th Noon PT / 1pm MT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET. After that, we will be taking a break before continuing with the reread in August. See the full schedule HERE.

Happy reading, Sounis!

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I fully expect that I will have to miss next week's chat (tragically, as ACOK is my favorite!), so I thought I'd post my observations, thoughts, and quetions today instead. I will put them in the comments so that you can avoid "spoilers" before next week.

However, I am begging you to make sure you ask the question, "If you were in charge of creating merch for ACOK, what quotes would you use on what merch?" and post all the answers here for me to see! Thanks!

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Unfortunately, these title puns may have to end after this next book.

Hope you had a fun Memorial Day weekend with Costis. And if you haven't started yet, there's still time to read The King of Attolia before the chat this Sunday, June 4th Noon PT/ 1pm MT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET in the Conspiracy Room. Relive the iconic Poor Costis, Gen making a fool of himself on purpose, Irene at her most long-suffering, and Ornon tactfully restraining himself from throwing dinner rolls.

See the full schedule for the reread HERE.

lady_ruthless

Is there any plan that anyone knows of to have a book with the gorgeous covers of the books from various countries? I drooled over the one from Italy, but I don't have the funds to collect all books, all editions, all countries?

Thanks for letting me know

LR

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A quick reminder of the chat today--read all about it here!

I'm probably not going to make it today; lots of family stuff on the docket. We'll see!

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/slinks in guiltily Let's pretend this isn't super late, shall we?

If you're like me and running behind the eight ball in life and in reading, don't worry! There is still time to finish The Queen of Attolia before the chat this Sunday, May 21st at Noon PT / 1pm MT / 2pm CT / 3pm ET. Let's all be traumatized together! :)

See the full schedule for the QT Reread HERE. Yes, we are rereading all seven books and discussing them in the Conspiracy Room. See you there, Sounis!

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Are you missing your

sounis friends? Remember to stop by the Conspiracy Room on Sunday for a chat about the book that started it all. Ah, Whiny!Gen, Supercilious!Magus, Sweet!Sophos, and Poor!Pol. Time to revisit them all. See you this Sunday, May 7 at 12:00/PT, 1:00/MT, 2:00/CT, and 3:00/ET. If you need the password, it is here.

Come join in the discussion!

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//emerges from the cave where she's been doing taxes for ten hours a day for three months. So, that's what the sun looks like...

Dropping in to to remind you all to walk over to your bookshelves and grab one of your many copies of The Thief, because the chat to discuss will be next Sunday, May 7th at Noon PT / 1pm MT / 2pm CT/ 3pm ET. Shouldn't take you too long. I just started yesterday, and I'm already half-way through... XD

We will be meeting in the Conspiracy Room to chat, discuss The Thief, and reminisce about the first time we were tricked by MWT. Wouldn't be the last! Password is HERE if you need it. Click HERE for a full schedule of the re-read. We will be reading and discussing all seven books throughout the course of the year.

See you there!

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Have you guys seen this? On mwt’s tumbler, it shows that she and Laini Taylor are going to be on something called Quest Live this Friday. Do any of you know how to listen to or watch this?

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Are we freaking out about this yet? Because I feel like we should be freaking out about this. I want a lot of these items.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq6CrbsM0gb/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Also, anyone else find it funny Megan has broken her own record? 7 years between books? That's nothing. Let's try decades before official merchandise.*

* megan ily please don't feed me to a dragon
I appreciate all the hard work that went into this amd know that book-related merch wasn't the same kind of fad it is now with subscriptionboxes, etc.

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Four years ago today I spent the day hanging out with ~mwt and bookishbabe.

I decided the anniversary deserved a cake. So I bought one. (This is why I'm not allowed to go shopping alone.)

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I have a schedule for you! In case you haven't heard, Sounis is hosting a complete reread and discussion of ALL seven books of the QT series, now with Conspiracy Room chats at an earlier time.

The reread will be starting April 23rd! See below the cut for a full schedule.

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So, so, so.... That's two weeks to read each book with chat dates always on Sundays at Noon PT/ 1pm MT/ 2pm CT/ 3pm ET. You get three weeks to read RoT, due to its length, and incidentally, three weeks with Sophos in CoK. Not because I'm showing favoritism to Sophos (who could blame me), but because it proved impossible to avoid Easter, Mother's Day, Memorial Day weekend, and Father's Day without skipping a week. ~~Why are there so many holidays in spring?~~

Hope you can join us for some if not most of the discussions. If you want to just talk about the books and not reread, that's perfectly okay too.

Happy reading!

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I promisd a few of you I'd share when some video of our new library was open. Here are the best video and article to date:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_4xpjWG1A&feature=youtu.be

https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/frisco/city-county/2023/03/04/bring-on-the-books-new-frisco-public-library-celebrates-grand-opening/

Plenty of room for a ThiefCon!

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Ooh, take a lood at a great review of Moira's Pen from Tor's Natalie Zutter:

Engaging in Fiction: Megan Whalen Turner Explores New Corners of Her World in Moira's Pen by Natalie Zutter

Some of her comments:

Turner packs so much into these last few pages that it made my head spin, and I had to reread.

Moira’s Pen isn’t an epilogue; if anything, it’s more of a prologue, a potential new beginning—whether for novels or stories, it’s too soon to say. But I’m so excited that the path has been revealed.

Oh, and she mentions screaming at the end of the book, with which we can all sympathize.

filkferengi

About Alkibiades, _The Flowers Of Adonis_ by Rosemary Sutcliff is 1.99, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLGJ4XTD , https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/flowers-of-adonis-rosemary-sutcliff/1003469667 , https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-flowers-of-adonis-1

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I hope you all have been enjoying Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia as much as I have. You can always count on Le Guin for her glorious writing.

From The Guardian: The utterly convincing world that Le Guin creates, in her crisp, delicately flavoured, perfectly unfussed prose, is a homespun one." And this: "Le Guin makes sense of him in her subtly moving, playful, tactfully told story, a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine: pragmatic, sensible, gentle, courageous. Virgil would never have written her: she is a modern projection of a modern intelligence and sensibility. But it is very much to Le Guin's credit that her Lavinia never strikes a false note."

And Kirkus calls Lavinia "arguably her best novel."

Join us on Sunday, March 5 for the discussion. Remember, we're meeting at New and Improved Times, to free up your dinner time/evening.

Noon PT
1:00 MT
2:00 CT
3:00 ET

You can find the chat in The Conspiracy Room , password to enter the room is here.

Hope to see you there!

filkferengi

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Great Big Sea

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Just your friendly neighborhood mod dropping by to remind you to finish reading Lavinia before the chat one week from today.

Join us to discuss Lavinia by Ursala Le Guin, a retelling of the Aeneid, in the Conspiracy Room Sunday, March 5th.

Now at the new and improved earlier time of 1pm MT/2pm CT/3pm ET.

I asked ChatGPT to write me a review for Lavinia, and it seemed to like it! XD

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AI aren't going to take over the world... nope....

Happy reading!

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The verdict is in! We will be reading Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin this February, a highly reccommended book by MWT. Published in 2008, this was the last novel written by Le Guin and is based on the Aeneid.

You can start reading now of course, but if you want to read in a two week window, then you should start Sunday, February 19th. The chat to discuss will be Sunday, March 5th. At 288 pages, this book is not overly long.

This year, we are going to be try something new with Conspiracy Room chats and start holding them in the afternoons. For a long time now, chats have been held in the evening to be considerate of those who work weekends; however evening chats can conflict with dinner plans, so this schedule may actually work better for members who currently attend chats. If you are unable to attend due to this earlier time, please let me know in the comments. Nothing is set in stone yet, we are simply trying something new to see if it works better.

The new chats times will be....

Noon Pacific Time
1pm Mountain Time
2pm Central Time
3pm Eastern Time

And don't forget! We will be doing a full series re-read this year of Queen's Thief starting in April. Happy reading!

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