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Summer Reading – Lioness at Large

Summer Reading

Literature Reviews

Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria

The Riyria Revelations are the fantasy series that brought Michael J. Sullivan instant recognition back in the late 2000s.  Originally published as a series of six installments, they are now available as a set of three books, with each of the three books comprising two volumes of the original format.  As he did with almost […]

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Michael J. Sullivan: Legends of the First Empire

Michael J. Sullivan’s Riyria books have been on my TBR for a while, but until I’d read two short stories from the cycle — The Jester and Professional Integrity — I hadn’t been sure whether his writing would be for me.  Then I found out that (much like Tolkien’s Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History […]

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Michael J. Sullivan: Riyria Short Stories – The Jester & Professional Integrity

                      The first book of Michael J. Sullivan’s Riyria Revelations has been sitting on my TBR for a minor eternity at this point, but so far I’d been hesitating because some of its descriptions made it sound a bit too much like Scott Lynch’s Gentleman […]

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Summer Reading 2019

  So, summer reading is shaping up as rather busy this year:   First of all, there is Summer of Sherlock, for which my reading list is already as long as a whole year’s worth of reading would have been for me once upon a time.  I’ll also be watching the two Rivals of Sherlock […]

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Helen MacInnes: Above Suspicion – Reading Progress Update: 48 of 343 Pages

Oh, wow.  I’m only a few chapters in, but this is feeling mighty topical already — even more so given that it’s not historical fiction but was actually published in 1941 (note: it’s set in the summer of 1939): “‘It is really very sad for a German to find how misjudged and abused his country […]

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The President’s Summer Reading List

Check out what President Obama is reading this summer. President Barack Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia shop for books at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., on Small Business Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Today, President Obama shared his official summer reading list – a mix of fiction […]

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