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Category Archive: Read-Alongs

Returning soon: the Kushiel read-along #ReadAsThouWilt

Kushiel's Chosen: A Wyrd and Wonder Read-along
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We’re planning to return to Terre d’Ange! The new year will see a new Wyrd & Wonder read-along as we embark on Phèdre nó Delaunay’s second epic adventure as Kushiel’s Chosen.

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December 17, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week four

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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Christie S’aranth has survived assassins, dodged accusations of witchcraft and murder, and travelled from the Barrens to the Brown Tower. Now her time on Orthe is ending. Torn between her duty to the Dominion and her love of the Southland, she must decide where her loyalties lie…

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November 28, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week three

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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Christie survived the Barrens and is reunited with her Orthean allies at the winter court in Peir-Dadeni. But while her enemies slide free of the claims against them, Christie once again finds herself accused of a terrible crime. Mistrustful, fearing for her life, she goes back on the run…

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November 21, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week two

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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With Crown permission to tour the telestres, Christie settles in to Roehmonde to try and convince them of the benefits of off world contact. But Roehmonde has domestic problems that technology can’t solve, and it soon becomes clear that anything that promotes change poses a threat to stability…

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November 13, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week one

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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You know I can’t resist a read-along. It was SciFiMonth that first lured me into one, and it’s a tradition I’m delighted to continue. This year, we’re reading Mary Gentle’s Golden Witchbreed, a classic of cut-throat politics and cultural tensions as a junior diplomat gets out of her depth on the dangerously compelling world of Orthe.

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November 6, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

Read-along: Kushiel’s Dart – week six

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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As war sweeps across Terre d’Ange, Phèdre and Joscelin face one last challenge: to bring Ysandre enough allies to stop Waldemar Selig in his tracks. But even as bitter enemies make common cause against a greater threat, some friends prove faithless…

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October 9, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Read-along: Kushiel’s Dart – week five

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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Questions are dangerous, for they have answers. Phèdre, Joscelin and Hyacinthe are despatched to find Queen Ysandre’s betrothed – but the Long Road is haunted by secrets. As the value – and the cost – of the dromonde becomes clear, they will all wrestle with the price of duty…

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October 2, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

SciFiMonth Classic Read-along: Golden Witchbreed

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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One of the joys of SciFiMonth is a big buddy read. For our classic read-along, I’d like to introduce you to Golden Witchbreed, an epic of knife-edge (and knifepoint) diplomacy, beguiling world-building and cultural tension as humanity tries to persuade the post-apocalyptic world of Orthe to open its doors to the galaxy.

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September 27, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

Read-along: Kushiel’s Dart – week four

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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Epic adventure, acute peril, looming disaster, reputational damage and… is that a sniff of romance? It’s week four of Kushiel’s Dart and everybody needs a hug. Everybody. Okay, okay, maybe not Waldemar Selig.

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September 25, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Read-along: Kushiel’s Dart – week three

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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It’s a strange way to keep someone alive, that’s all I’ll say. Just as Phèdre finally learns his secrets, Delaunay’s careful schemes come apart, plunging her into a nightmare of blood and ruin…

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September 17, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Read-along: Kushiel’s Dart – week two

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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That which yields is not always weak. After Phèdre’s debut, offers flood in from the powerful for a night with Delaunay’s anguisette and the Spider is proven right: people let slip secrets in their passions. But it is gentle Alcuin who will take the greatest risk…

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September 10, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Read-along: Kushiel’s Dart – week one

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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All knowledge is worth having and Phèdre nó Delaunay is willing to pay a terrible price in its pursuit. Raised as a courtesan, her rare gift is to experience pleasure in pain, attracting powerful patrons with dark urges. Trained as a spy, she will seek to uncover their secrets. But knowledge can be dangerous…

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September 3, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Coming soon: the Kushiel’s Dart read-along #ReadAsThouWilt

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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It’s nearly time to return to Terre d’Ange! The Wyrd & Wonder read-along of Kushiel’s Dart kicks off at the start of September for six weeks of swooning, gushing, (back)stabbing, screaming and sober analysis (other reactions may also apply).

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August 20, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Read As Thou Wilt: a Kushiel’s Dart read-along

Kushiel's Dart: a #WyrdAndWonder Read-along
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Heads-up to all fantasy fans – we’re planning another Wyrd and Wonder read-along! Jacqueline Carey came in for much love during this year’s event, so this autumn we’ll be (re)visiting Terre d’Ange to read her epic debut Kushiel’s Dart.

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July 20, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder

Read-along: The Goblin Emperor – week four

The Goblin Emperor - A Wyrd and Wonder Read-along
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A state visit by the forcefully impressive Great Avar is the cue for social events, family gossip and alcohol-fuelled discussions that could have international ramifications. But as the hunt for the former Emperor’s murderers narrows in on the culprits, how to talk to goblins at parties may be the least of Maia’s worries…

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May 30, 2020 Read-Alongs, Wyrd and Wonder 2020

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