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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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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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Hey, it's a lot more appealing than going to the gym.

In case you're like me and haven't revisited our favorite series since it's completion back in 2020 and also like me, need a push to finally listen to those audiobooks downloaded on your phone, never fear

sounis is here! During our last chat, we decided to stage a complete series re-read for the community this year. Yes, alll SEVEN books. With it now having been over two years since the release of Return of the Thief and the complete recontextulization of many parts of the series, we felt it's time to finally dig back in and annalize the story in its completed form.

The current plan is to start this April and proceed through the summer with two weeks to read each book (three for RoT) and a Sunday chat in the Conspiracy Room to discuss. Since it is seven books, we will also take a break in the middle during the height of summer busy-ness (July) and finish in the fall, hopefully before the end of October and the start of the Holiday season.

As always, you don't have to be re-reading in order to attend the chats. Also, how do you all feel about chats being in the early afternoon in order to avoid dinner guest interference? Do any of you work on Sunday? Let me know!

While I work on chat dates and a reading schedule, do me a favor and check out this interview with MWT. We wanted to do a stand-alone novel for our WSK Bookclub winter pick with one of the books she recommended. Personally, I'm leaning towards The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins, as it sounds especially particular to the tastes of most Sounisians, but let me know which one you would like to read.

EDIT: Seems we are leaning towards reading Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin, a retelling of the Aeneid, this February. Comment if this sounds good to you! :)

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Two back to back chats coming up next week!

Dress up as you favorite QT character for Halloween and join us in the Conspiracy Room next Sunday, October 30th 6pm CT/7PM ET for

sounis's annual masked Halloween chat! If you've never been, check out general guidelines and pointers on my post from last year. If you would like to reserve a character, please comment anonmously below with the name of that character. Don't want to give away your identity before the chat even starts!

If you're planning to stay up till midnight (ET) on the night of Monday, October 31st, refreshing your Kindle for the Moira's Pen ebook, I've got the party for you! Hang out with your fellow reprobates in the Conspiracy Room officially from 10pm - 11pm CT/11pm - Midnight ET. If you've gotta go to bed before then, many of us will be showing up earlier throughout the evening to speculate and discuss. So stop by once you're done trick-or-treating and before you go to bed! Even if you should be going to bed by like... 10pm... sigh.

As soon as you're done reading Moira's Pen, stop back in

sounis to squee about the new content. I will start a spoiler thread for discussing the new book on the morning of November 1st.

Happy Halloween!

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Hi folks. I adore our little

sounis community, but I wrote about some of my concerns with Live Journal a while back and have been meaning to put together an email list of all you wonderful sounisians, in case something happens to LJ and we need to regroup.

Here's what I'm thinking.

ninedaysaqueen and I will keep a spreadsheet with you all's LJ user names and email addresses, and I can promise you we won't ever use these email address except to maintain contact with you if LJ ceases to exist.

If you'd like to be included, you can send me an email at checkers65477 AT yahoo.com (obviously, add the @ in there). Or, if you prefer, message your email address to me here on LJ.

And, remember, we have a Dreamwidth backup of the sounis site. Bookmark it, and if we ever need a new home, we can migrate over there and still have all the old posts.

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If you haven't started yet, don't forget to read Instead of Three Wishes, MWT's short story antholoy, and The Baby in the Night Deposit Box, MWT's other non-QT short story. If you haven't heard, we are reading and discussing all of Megan's short-stories to celebrate the release of Moira's Pen, which is coming out November 1st!

These are perfectly bite-sized, charming stories that you can finish during your lunch break. (as I've been doing) So, no worries if you haven't started yet. The chat to discuss these stories will be held next Sunday, September 18th, 6pm CT/7Pm ET, in the Conspiracy Room.

If you're having trouble finding the Best Shorts anthology, you can read most of The Baby in the Night Deposit Box on Google Books. This story was also published in the Firebirds: Sci-fi and Fantasy Anthology. The schedule for the QT short story chats is HERE. Happy reading!

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Ready for some Arthurian/Sutcliff goodness? Don't forget to read Sword at Sunset if you haven't started already. The chat to discuss Sutcliff's more classical take on King Arthur will take place Sunday, August 28th at 6pm CT/7pm ET in the Conspiracy Room. This book continues the story of Dark Age Britian with the character, Artos, who you may remember from the Lantern Bearers if you participated in the WSK Bookclub read of Sutcliff's Roman Britian trilogy. For more upcoming chats, check this schedule.

Hope to see you there!

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How's your summer going, Sounis? Hope you're having fun and not just counting the days till Moira's Pen releases, which is only a few months away! Here's what's coming up as the summer draws to a close, and we approach November 1st.

( Sword at Sunset )

We have been planning to celebrate the release of Moira's Pen by re-reading and discussing all MWT's previously published short stories, including the ones that do not take place in the QT universe.

My plan is to give you all two weeks to read the non-QT stories, take a break, and then cover two QT short stories each week from there. These short stories are… well… short, so they should only take about twenty minutes are so to read.

If you do not own all or even any of those elusive out-of-print editions that had the older short stories published in them, scans of the short stories are available HERE for Sounis members. Instead of Three Wishes should be readily available at libraries. If you don’t have access to the Best Short Stories anthology book that The Baby in the Night Deposit Box was published in, looks like you can read most of it on Google Books.

Have a schedule. Short stories are in chronological order, BTW...

( Schedule )

That should give us plenty of time to cover everything and still have a short break before the book comes out, so we can do a Halloween chat and a midnight release party for Moira's Pen. ~~Megan really likes to release books around Halloween time. Have you noticed?~~

That’s all for now!

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Here's your mid-week reminder to finish reading the Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff, the third installment in the Roman Britian trilogy--our current WSK Bookclub pick.

Once you've finished the book, ~~(or would like to pretend you've finished it)~~ come chat this coming Sunday, June 19th 6pm CT/7pm ET in the Conspiracy Room. Even if you missed Eagle and Silver Branch, you can still come!

Some of you have also asked about the other Sutcliff books associated with this trilogy. We can discuss if any of you participating would like to read more Sutcliff as part of the WSK Bookclub during the chat. We will take a break before continuing, either way, so no worries! You will have plenty of time to place a hold at the library. ;)

We will also be re-reading the QT short stories in October to celebrate the release of Moira's Pen in November.

Happy reading!

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If you're participating in our WSK bookclub read of Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman Britian trilogy, don't forget to finish the second book in the series, The Silver Branch, this week.

If you missed the Eagle of the Ninth chat, it's never too late to join! We will be discussing The Silver Branch this coming Sunday, June 5th, at 6pm CT/7pm ET in the Conspiracy Room.

Hope to see you there!

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I hope you've had a chance to start The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, but if you haven't, don't worry! The book is only a little over 200 pages long, and you've got a whole week still to finish it. If you have started and have never read the book before, have you noticed anything familiar? :)

The chat to discuss The Eagle of the Ninth, the first book in the Roman Britian trilogy, will take place next Sunday, May 22nd, at 6pm CT/7pm ET in the Conspiracy Room. The password is HERE if you need it.

If you're curious about some of the history surrounding the Roman occupation of Britain, check out this Horrible Histories video of Bob Hale giving a hilarious summary of those 500 years of British history.

See you at the chat!

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Guess who just finished thier overtime for tax season! :)

Ready for an immersive read full of drama and history and epic relationships? Join us for our next WSK read, the Roman Britain Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff. We will be reading The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, and The Lantern Bearers. Since these books are of a decent length and there is only three of them, you will have two weeks to read each book. Published in the 1950s, this is an older series but reads like it could've been written today. The trilogy spans the length of the Roman occupation of Great Britain and delves into some fascinating discussions on imperalism and culture.

Eagle of the Ninth follows the journey of a Roman solider and a British slave he rescued as they search for the lost Eagle of the ninth legion in the lands beyond Hadrian's Wall. If that plot sounds familar, that's because Thick As Thieves was inspired by this book. It also features the ring Gen found in the maze during The Thief.

Our community wide reading and discussion of this series will start May 8th, with the first chat being held 6pm CT/7pm ET on Sunday, May 22nd in the Conspiracy Room. Full schedule under the cut for your reference. Also go HERE to read about our plans for Moira's Pen.

( Full Schedule )

Hope to see you there! And if all goes well we might read Sword at Sunset and The Shield Ring as well, which I gather are companion books to this series.

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Just a little background. Although LJ was created in America, it was sold to a Russian media company in 2007 and in 2016-2017 migrated to servers located in Russia. The LJ Terms of Service are in line with Russian law, which caused some previous LJ users to migrate to other social media platforms. It all hit home for me last year when I had to pay for my own persomal paid account in rubles.

For years, our mods and members looked for better sites that still allowed for the depth of posts/comments/discussion offered by LJ. The trend now is in more fast-paced, short posts that can be reblogged, rather than longer posts that can be created by and commented on by ALL members of a community. And convincing everyone to go create a login and move to another side would be impossible. So, we've stayed with LJ.

With the recent invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, I felt the need to tell you all this. Politics have never been allowed on

sounis (except for the politics of the little peninsula!) and so I'm not going to comment more, except to state my sympathy for and solidarity with the Ukrainian people.

Over the past few years, LJ has censored the content of some journals and limited free expression. In case LJ might see fit to change or delete American-based blogs, I've been doing an occasional backup of the

sounis site to Dreamwidth. I refreshed the backup today, so it's all there on https://queensthief.dreamwidth.org/

Unless someone has a better idea, we'll continue to use

sounis as is, and thank you to those who have reached out to me about LJ and being dilligent about backups. Feel free to chime in and comment about any of this!

Current Mood: sad

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Need to freak out about Moira's Pen? Join us for a chat in the Conspiracy Room Sunday, March 6th at 6pm CT/7pm ET. Password is HERE. It's better than pacing till November 1st. See you there!

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Excited to speculate about Moira's Pen? Join us for a chat in the Conspiracy Room Sunday, March 6th at 6pm CT/7pm ET. We can wonder if the rest of the Kamet short-story got left on the cutting room floor, ponder if there will be illustrations, and agonize over what the Magus's name is!

If you weren't at the chat last weekend, some updates on coming events.

( WSK Bookclub )

( Moira's Pen )

Questions, comments, suggestions? Let me know in the comments.

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Opps! Forgot to post this in the flurry of tax season starting (I'm an accountant, no... for real.), but don't forget to read the third installment in our WSK bookclub read for the winter, House of Many Ways, part of the Howl's Moving Castle series. If you ever wanted to read about a librarian house-sitting for a wizard and roasting Howl's hand-writing, you're in for a treat. You can't go wrong with Diana Wynne Jones.

Finish the book by the end of this week and join us for a chat in the Conspiracy Room next Sunday, February 13th at 6pm CT/ 7Pm ET. I'm also looking for ideas for our next WSK read for the late spring early summer. Drop some ideas in the comments or during the chat. See you then!

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What a great chat tonight! Thanks for coming, reprobates! We talked about the slithery-ness of Gen and Howl, how wonderful old!Sophie is, and the power of postive self-talk mixed with weed-killer. If you missed it, check out the backlog.

Don't forget to start reading the next book in the series, Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones.

The chat to discuss the second volume in the series will be held Sunday, January 30th at 6pm CT/7pm ET. That's the weekend after next. Click HERE if you need the full schedule, or if you just have no idea what I'm talking about.

Happy reading!

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My last post of the year! Thank you, all who joined us this last summer for our first WSK Bookclub read, The Squire's Tales series by Gerald Morris, as well as the celebration of the first anniversary of Return of the Thief.

Our plans to read and discuss Diana Wynne Jones's magical Howl's Moving Castle series will commence on Monday, January 3rd. You have two weeks to read the first in the series, Howl's Moving Castle, and watch the 2004 Studio Ghibli movie adaptaion if you want, which will probably be apart of the discussion. (If you watch the movie, watch it in Japanese--if you're able. It's so much better! ~~Don't talk to me about Christian Bale!)~~

The chat to discuss the novel will be held in the Conspiracy Room on Sunday, January 16th at 6pm CT. We will probably be playing "spot the QT quote" so bring you highlighters! Unless, you're reading from a library book...

See HERE for a full schedule of the Bookclub meetings. If you've never read the Howl's Moving Castle series, I cannnot reccomend it enough for QT fans. Reading some of Diana Wynne Jones's work is a wonderful way to ring in the New Year!

While you wait for the clock to strick midnight, have some nostalgic 1986 fantasy cover art. How times have changed...

And have some other fun stuff:
(1) Check out this Howl's Moving Castle ambiance room with piano music from the movie. I may've or may not have already started reading the book, and this provides some wonderful reading ambiance and music.
(2) A wonderful review of the movie and book by Noralities that discusses some very interesting history of the movie's development.
(3) Watch an artist alter the HMC character designs to better match the descriptions in the.book.
(4) Also, Howl and Sophie as Vines if you need a good laugh! XD (Warning for some adult language.)

Happy New Year,

sounis!

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Just a quick reminder! Our end of the year chat is this Sunday, December 12th. What were your favorite books this year? Crack out your Goodreads list and come bearing reccomendations. (Or don't... I'm not the queen.) The chat will take place in the Conspiracy Room, and the password (members only) is HERE. Not a member? Make joining

sounis your New Year's resolution. :)

4pm Pacific Time

5pm Mountain Time

6pm Central Time

7pm Eastern Time

World Clock for more timezones.

If you like ringing in the New Year with wonderful books, join us for our next WSK community read, the Howl's Moving Castle series by the late and great Diana Wynn Jones, starting January 3rd. Click HERE for a full schedule and more information.

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Entries tagged with community

A QT Retrospective

WSK Bookclub — Lavinia

WSK Bookclub - Winter Pick!

New Year's Resolution: Re-read Queen's Thief!

Halloween Chat & Moira's Pen Release Party!

Let's compile a Sounis email list!

Instead of Three Wishes - WSK Bookclub

Sword at Sunset - WSK Bookclub

Chats! Sword at Sunset! And Moira's Pen! Oh, my!

The Lantern Bearers - June 19th!

The Silver Branch chat on Sunday!

The Eagle of the Ninth Chat - May 22nd!

The Eagle is Rome - May 7th!

Did you know Livejournal is a Russian-owned company?

Chat Tomorrow!

Moira's Pen & the Next WSK Read!

House of Many Ways - WSK Bookclub

Castle in the Air, WSK Bookclub!

Howl's New Year! WSK Bookclub!

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