This stop in the journey at last brings this series to the present (2015 at the time of this writing), covering what for me is probably the most fruitful and exciting period in my reading career, a time I’ll refer to as the “inkling phase”. Most people who know me for any length of time will …
Welcome back for another savory slice of Six Degrees pie. Last week, Jenelle Schmidt served up a taste of Steelheart and his “epic” struggle to dominate the mere mortals inhabiting planet earth. In describing the characters, she mentioned Tia, a scholar and healer who excels at research and who uses those skills in the service of Prof, the leader …
Exciting news: last night I finished the second draft for The Last Motley! And what a pleasant romp it was, going through that story again. It had been nearly two years since I’d penned the first draft so I had forgotten many of the details. In many ways editing it was like experiencing the story for the first time. …
Every month I give a little glimpse here on my web site into books I’ve read or plan on reading via a picture from my nightstand. Lately it’s more like a glimpse at my library than my nightstand, since I’m mostly talking about books I’ve read in the past, but these are at least books I hope …
Finding a connection between two characters in two different books is not always easy, but its a great mental exercise and one of the benefits of traveling through the Six Degrees universe. Going from one tale to the next, you never know quite where this journey will take you because all of us have read …
As promised in my recent Six Degrees post, here is a short review of the Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison. Hope you enjoy it. This book is brilliant, a literary feast that makes modern works seem wanting in their command of the English language. It is written in Jacobian english and is highly stylized, requiring …
After a brief hiatus, it’s time to pick up again on our thousand foot survey of my experiences as a reader. Last time I shared some details about my reading during college. Now we’re going to move beyond that into what I tend to think of as my “non-fiction” years. It’s not that I read no fiction during …
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to Six Degrees we go! This week we once again hop from book to book and character to character as the mysterious, circuitous path known as Six Degrees of Kool Books continues. In the last link in the chain, Jenelle Schmidt introduced us to the multi-volume, history spanning world of …
