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Apr 03, 2021 09:27PM

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Had a busy night last night: Finished Corum - The Sword and the Stallion: The Eternal Champion, read both The Empress of Salt and Fortune and When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (wonderful, wonderful, fairly short novellas), and started Xiccarph by Clark Ashton Smith.
Finished Xiccarph and started The Serpent, the first book in Jane Gaskell's Atlan series, which I might have last read in high school?
(And both of those could probably also go in the Nostalgia discussion, come to think of it.)
(And both of those could probably also go in the Nostalgia discussion, come to think of it.)


The Joy of Erudition wrote: "That's the first time I've heard someone mention The Serpent. I have a copy here, waiting to be read. (The one with this cover.)
"
I got a wild hair and decided I needed the same specific editions that I remembered getting from the public library back in the day, so my covers all look like this:
Happily, I got the full set pretty cheaply -- 4 books from a seller on Abebooks and one from eBay.

I got a wild hair and decided I needed the same specific editions that I remembered getting from the public library back in the day, so my covers all look like this:

Happily, I got the full set pretty cheaply -- 4 books from a seller on Abebooks and one from eBay.
Savage Realms Monthly: March 2021 Issue 3

Wrapped up Rakefire and Other Stories, and really enjoyed that. Wrote an epic review (because I can't write just one sentence): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Now I'm onto Turn Over the Moon.
Now I'm onto Turn Over the Moon.




I'm really loving them so far! He's a fascinating character and, well, Wagner is an amazing writer.
Black Stork's Shadow by JP Grimaldi.
A sword and sorcery novella.
A sword and sorcery novella.

FtKoK thoughts:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Also slowly reading through Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy

I agree. I gave it 3, myself. I didn't see the movie, though.
The Chronicles of Caylen-Tor: Volume II Kindle Edition
by Byron A. Roberts
by Byron A. Roberts
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