Category: Reading

  • The Way of Kings Book Review

    The Way of Kings Book Review

    My review of Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings, the first book in the Stormlight Archive

  • The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England Book Review

    The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England Book Review

    My book review of one of Brandon Sanderson’s Secret Novels

  • The Seventh Tower Series Book Review

    The Seventh Tower Series Book Review

    My book review of The Seventh Tower series by Garth Nix

  • Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere Reading Order

    Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere Reading Order

    If you don’t already know, I am a huge Sanderson fan. Strangely, though, I haven’t managed to finish all of the Cosmere books that are out. I’ve put a good dent in the list, for sure, but not all of them. I’m starting to run into a problem, though: the…

  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

    Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

    This book review is going to be on Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros from the point of view of an epic fantasy author, not a romance reader. (This post contains affiliate links. If you click on one, I may earn a commission at no cost to you. Thanks for your…

  • Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

    Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson

    Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is one of the Secret Novels written by Brandon Sanderson during the pandemic. Sanderson wrote this book for his wife Emily and it shows. Emily has apparently been wanting him to write something with more romance in it for some time, so he decided to…

  • Legendary Love: 5 Epic Fantasy Romances

    Legendary Love: 5 Epic Fantasy Romances

    Happy Valentine’s Day! Romance can be discovered in many an epic fantasy novel, from Middle-earth to the Shattered Plains of Roshar. In this article, I’ll be going over a few romantic couples in well-known epic fantasy stories. These aren’t romantasy or romantic fantasy couples; they are couples whose love stories…

  • Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin

    Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin

    A Wizard of Earthsea, written by Ursula LeGuin, is a classic children’s fantasy novel published in 1968. I may be 56 years late to the party, but I finally read it! This is the first book review for the books that I am reading as part of my 52 Book…

  • Dragon Books

    Dragon Books

    Dragons! Since humans first discovered dinosaur bones and decided they must have belonged to some long-extinct giant (sometimes flying) reptile, we’ve been fascinated by dragons. These enormous beasts have featured prominently in legends, myths, and folklore. Today, you can hardly call yourself a fantasy author if you haven’t written a…

  • FREE DOWNLOAD: “Books I’ve Read” Bookmark

    I love having a physical way to keep track of my goals, so I decided to create a bookmark that has space for me to write down the titles of the books that I’ve finished reading this year as part of my 52 Books Challenge. And since it was already…