Books We Read (Besides the Obvious)

I read either some or all of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn years ago and thought it was interesting but didn't quite love it. I may have to reread some day. Tad Williams wrote a bunch of other stuff, some of which I've tried. I really enjoyed his standalone The War of the Flowers, set in a faerie world where the high ranking people are all based on some kind of flower.

This came up the toher day but I read a2/3 of the Redwall novels and was obsessed with them for years before realising the plots were all samey and getting bored.

I am a particular fan of the Temeraire novels which features a dragon air force in the Napoleonic era. There are a whole bunch of dragon breeds, usually divided by nation. The author takes her heroes all over the world to show how various countries s treat dragons. For example in Britain, France and Prussia the dragons are raised to military service but in China dragons are treated in a similar way to people, with jobs, and some breeds are too highly prized to fight.

Bernard Cornwell's a prolific author with a whole bunch of books/series. I am a particular fan of his King Arthur trilogy and his Sharpe novels but he has some other great ones too.