Outlander

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

[Leea, Escape Artist]

It gives me goosebumps seeing Moby up there... can't wait!

[Jen (at last!)]

I love this series so so much!!!!!

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

That's because it's AMAZING.

[Dee]

I have MOBY pre-ordered on Amazon already - it is December yet!!

[Lori]

Oh YEAH! December can't come soon enough for me! I'm sure I'll have my usual love/hate relationship with MOBY... I'll cram it all in and finish it in 5 hrs or something crazy. Then I'll have to go back and actually read the thing.

[Angie Elle, BaBAMB!!!]

FYI--there is an ARC available on Edelweiss right now, and it's compared to Outlander.

Here is the description:

For fans of Cloud Atlas and Diana Gabaldon's Outlanders series, a sweeping historical fantasy set in a re-imagined 19th CenturyKay Kenyon's The Empire and the Rose was hailed as a star-maker, a magnificent book, audacious, and the most ambitious science fiction epic of the current decade


In this epic new work, the award-winning Kenyon creates an alternate 19th century with two warring continents on an alternate earth: the scientific Anglica (England) and magical Bharata (India). Emboldened by her grandfather's final whispered secret of a magical lotus, Tori Harding, a young Victorian woman and aspiring botanist, must journey to Bharata, with its magics, intrigues and ghosts, to claim her fate. There she will face a choice between two suitors and two irreconcilable realms.

In a magic-infused world of silver tigers, demon birds and enduring gods, as a great native mutiny sweeps up the continent, Tori will find the thing she most desires, less perfect than she had hoped and stranger than she could have dreamed.

I hope it's OK to post this here. If not, let me know and I can delete.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Sounds interesting.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Whats the title of the book, Angie?

[Angie Elle, BaBAMB!!!]

Ooops...that would be helpful wouldn't it, Leea. It's called A Thousand Perfect Things.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

It's available for download... I might get it.

[Dee]

hmmm, that does sound intriguing...I might have to check it out

[Jen (at last!)]

News about the STARZ adaptation.

http://m.deadline.com/2013/04/ron-moo...

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Eek! So exciting!

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Thanks for sharing Jen. I'm so excited!!

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Yay!

[Jen (at last!)]

Me, too! Let's hope it gets green lit.

[Kelly]

Angie wrote: "FYI--there is an ARC available on Edelweiss right now, and it's compared to Outlander.

Here is the description:

For fans of Cloud Atlas and Diana Gabaldon's Outlanders series, a sweeping historic..."

This looks interesting thanks

[Lisa]

I loved the work Ron Moore did on Battlestar Galactica - loved that series! I'm hoping he does as well with Outlander (crossing fingers) and does it justice. Can't wait for MOBY!!!! Still need to reread the last couple books before then.

That book looks interesting, Angie.

[Vanessa Eden]

I am on dragonfly in amber and so far I hate to say it but I have been bored. I loved the first one. But I have kinda been a little let down at the second one so far. I am on page 250ish. Help?!

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Well, Vanessa I would just stay stick with it. I did have a hard time with some of the political intrigue. What has you let down or what isn't keeping you interested?

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

Vanessa wrote: "I am on dragonfly in amber and so far I hate to say it but I have been bored. I loved the first one. But I have kinda been a little let down at the second one so far. I am on page 250ish. Help?!"

Vanessa, I also struggled with the first time I read it. Like Leea, I would definitely also recommend that you try to get through til the end as it turns out to have very important storylines that continue throughout the series. I'm on my 4th re-read of the series and now I love DIA!

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I think it was hard to read DIA because you want more (view spoiler)[Jamie and Claire and don't really get it for a good portion of the book. (hide spoiler)]

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Yes it does Stacia!! Peggy's right, these story lines continue thru the books.

[Vanessa Eden]

Thanks for the replies! I will definitely keep reading it because I so loved outlander and I want to read the other books in the series. Thanks for the support.

[Vanessa Eden]

Leea: I suppose it is the political intrigue. As much as I love history I feel that it is too extensive in it and I want more Jamie and Clair. Also the nursing stuff I could read less of because I read for escape and because that is my job it seems too real. But that's just me :)

[Dee]

It wasn't until abt my 3rd read-thru that I realized how important DFiA was - it is the set up for Culloden and everything that happened after

[Vanessa Eden]

I bet u probably can't read any of the other books without reading book 2. It took me a while to really get into outlander aswell. I am sure I rill totally love it once I get knee deep into the story

[Vanessa Eden]

Will*

[Dee]

You maybe could...but it would be hard since a lot of it is told in flashbacks

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Mmm, I think you'd miss a LOT if you skipped Dragonfly. You'd likely feel pretty lost, I'd think.

It definitely changes into more of a Historical in that installment. Still good, but they're really getting into the politics in that one. I think the second half is better than the first.

[Vanessa Eden]

I just finished outlander 2 weeks ago and I am thinking about reading it again. it was so good I can't find another book to satisfy me sense outlander

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

That's because there is no other book like Outlander! (I think anyway, lmao! A lot of others love The Bronze Horseman, which I think has a smiliar set up... though I've never read it.)

[Leea, Escape Artist]

Oh, my dear friend you just walked into this one... It's time for you to read The Bronze horseman :)

Vanessa, you'll love the journey that takes place in the coming books for Jamie and Claire.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

ROTFLMAO! I did open that door... I will admit to doing it knowingly, but only because I thought it was only fair of me to mention that you ladies loved it.

[Leea, Escape Artist]

One day i'll get you to read that book... one day :) LOL!!

[Dee]

Wendy - how have you not read TBH? I thought you were part of the buddy read last year...

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Mmmm.... I think it was that I was intending to be a part of it and just before it started I snuck out the backdoor, lol.

[Lisa]

I devoured all 3 TBH books and went thru boxes of tissues! Even when I went to the store midway thru The Bronze Horseman, the clerk asked what was wrong. I asked "why?" She said that I look SO sad. I told her that my mind was on an epic book...good grief. How bad it that? I mean the book is GOOD - all 3 of them! Wendy, you'll be kicking yourself putting this off. Also, I was drinking vodka straight while reading these LOL! After reading about them drinking the stuff all the time - I mean, Russia - hel-lo. So I had a bottle of vanilla vodka (for chocolate martinis) and it's really good straight up, on some ice :)

[Leea, Escape Artist]

That sounds fantastic Lisa... The vanilla vodka on the rocks. On my next re-read (which Wendy F will be joining me :) i'm going to be sipping vodka. lol!

When I read TBH books, you couldn't get the 2nd and 3rd book because they stopped printing them and they we're on ebay and amazon for like $50 each. My husband found them overseas for a better deal and paid for the faster shipping but they sent them snail mail - so just picture me, everyday running out to meet the mail man with this frantic look on my face waiting to find out what happens to Tatiana and Alexander. It was pure torture.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

LOL! I think I'm going to be bullied (lovingly of course) into reading it when Leea rereads.

[Lisa]

OMG, Leea - I can imagine the torture you went through! Worse than the Fever Hell, waiting for the final book in KMM's Fever series. Those first 2 books of TBH just made me ACHE, literally with capitals.

Wendy, you won't be sorry :) Or, perhaps you will LOL.

[Lori]

Wendy, good luck to you! :-)

I read TBH, and I was caught up in book 1 and some of book 2. Book 3 wasn't my cup of tea. It was probably a bit "too real" for me....

LOVE Outlander! I can read that book anytime, anywhere, over and over again and never be sorry that I did. There are very few stories like that, for me. But Outlander is definitely one of them. Voyager is probably the only other book in this series that I can say that about. I love the whole series, don't get me wrong; but I can't read all of the other books over and over again without rolling my eyes at least once and putting the book down for awhile. With Outlander and Voyager, I can't put them down.

Vanessa, Dragonfly certainly has a different tone to it, but it's such a good book. You meet so many characters that have such an impact on Jamie & Claire and their lives... and you'll need those events & characters to prepare you for what's yet to come.

I think that in Dragonfly, Diana changed the tone to be more *historical*. Not that there's no romance; there certainly is! But it seems to me that after realizing her "practice" story (Outlander) was better than most published books out there, she decided to take the history more seriously. And wow, what she spun with that!

[Dee]

I still haven't finished book 3 of TBH...they were both driving me nuts as characters

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

I still haven't read book 2 of TBH. Or book 4 of Outlander. Massive books really put me off these days. I feel like I always have so much I want to read and the thought of taking 3, 4, or even 5 days to read a book when I can read a few books in that time from more than one series...it's sort of a deterrent.

I actually did start Drums of Autumn last week and wandered off after a couple of chapters. Sigh.

[Stacia (the 2010 club)]

Wendy F wrote: "Mmmm.... I think it was that I was intending to be a part of it and just before it started I snuck out the backdoor, lol."

There's no need to be afraid. TBH is not like Outlander at all, so you won't need to compare the two. People only compare them because they're epic in scale and the stories are larger than life. But the characters and situation are really nothing alike at all.

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

Yeah, I keep telling myself that. I'm sure once I read it the buldup will feel like overkill.

[Lisa]

Have you all seen this? Black Jack and Frank Randall's portrayer has been announced: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013...

I think he'll do :D

[Gwennie, Mrs. Bookworm]

So happy!

[Leea, Escape Artist]

I think he's a great pick. Ohhh we're getting close :) We need Claire.