Zelazny was a major influence on Jim Butcher, especially the Amber series.

Well its added to the list. Thank you.

I am 100 percent for an animated show. Something akin to the style of Clone Wars. I just dont think with how long the book series is, live action would be able to do it justice.

Yes, books are everywhere here, not only in the shelves. Thank God for Kindle.

We were aware Lucifer season 5B arrived to Netflix yesterday but we have not seen any of it yet. Soon, I guess. I really like the show, even when it is nothing that Gaiman's Lucifer in the comics.

Sorry, I have not read the Long Earth series. In fact, I had not heard about it.

I think I need two more book shelves.

Lucifer is one of those loose adaptations that you dont really care if its a perfect one. I liked the crossover with the other DC shows though.

Oh man, its not like the Discworld books. Its a little more grounded, but it is a wonder of imagination. Terry and Stephen really did a good job building the world. I actually think I'm gonna do a reread here soon. I have a new rule. Two books I haven't read for every reread.

Regen, such amazing plans.  Hopefully next year.
I've spent my birthday in London in 2017. It is a big deal because it's very far from here.

GW, I love your categories, specially Weird books.
My books are mostly organized by collections or more or less genre, but they are also organized by "enough space to put similar books together". That s why I have 3 World of Warcraft books (hubby's. I have not read them) adjacent to the 13 "A series of unfortunate events" books. Of course. Dresden Books are all together.

I don't remember if we talked about this, GW, but I loved the Good Omens show.

I loved the Good Omens show. Tennent was amazing. The overall feel was great. Such a great adaptation. I think I should do a rewatch here soon.

LOL
I almost drove my husband insane, because I categorized our collective CD collection into genres. Each category was in itself in alphabetical order and I even labelled the categories. He wasn't able to find anything, which I couldn't understand. He didn't understand my system.

Well that sounds like his problem lol. As long as it makes sense to one of you lol.

Good Omens was amazing.
We have watched Lucifer season 5 episodes 9-11 today.

I need to watch that still. I kind of forgot that was still going.


Also I may need to subdivide the Urban fantasy section as I have been a little loose with organizing that and it is by far the largest section. Maybe I'll take out harry Potter, Percy jackson and Artemis Fowl and call that Youth Urban Fantasy. The goal is to finally make a catalog of all my books and how many times ive read them.

Have any of you read the Long Earth series by Terry Pratchet and Stephen Baxter? Such a unique take on parallel worlds and honestly made me think so much. Such cool concepts.

If I ever meet the guy who put so many books in my apartment, he and I are going to have words.

((((((GW))))))) Have fun!

(((((Regen)))) Have fun too! That sounds so good, mixing a nice forest with the technology of the cellphone. And I love picknics. Please, tell us how it goes.

London? Have you planned a vacation? Well, it will be fine, London will still be here.

I finally can relax a little after the exam, it was difficult to make the exam and grade it.

Thank you! ((((DINA)))) I'm glad you can finally relax. I'm hope you have a good weekend.

Im currently reorganizing all my books into somewhat arbitrary categories. I made the executive decision to put a book series about studying dragons scientifically in the "Non Space Scifi" category. It has been fun but also driving me a bit crazy to create this new system.
So far I have these categories:
-Space Scifi
-Non Space Scifi (mostly Michael Crighton books tbh)
-High Fantasy
-Dark Fantasy
-Urban Fantasy
-Non Fiction
-Contemporary
-Superhero novels
-Comics
-Weird books (mostly terry pratchet and Douglas adams)


Nice Arjan

Good morning weird.
Hope everyone is doing well.

May the 4th be with you!
I am well, thank you, but I am worried because several persons I know are with Covid (with a different degree of seriousness). Also, I have my classes in a while, so I am doing last minute preparations, but I wanted to say hello. And thanks for writing Snowy! Please send her my regards if you can.

Oh no I hope they get better soon.

I passed on your regards. Need to get out of work when the post office is still open to get stamps, hopefully tomorrow. if not then definitely thursday.

Sorry about the double post. I wanted to comment that I tried the Tajin dressing tonight. It's a Mexican mix of peppers, salt and lemon. Sometimes it is written Tahin which is confusing, because Tahini or Tahine is an Arabian sauce, not similar at all. Anyways, tajin is delicious. I even took a shot of tequila and had the border of the small shot laced with tajin. Really tasty.

Sounds very interesting, I think im going to track it down to try it.

Hah Dina! You beat me to this one May the 4th be with you too.
It's extremely hot here these days. 40-44 °C. My pool is getting a workout.

Try to stay cool my friend.

I don't know that Mistborn is really a good starting point for Sanderson. It's a series that gets significantly better on rereads when you can connect the dots on stuff you learn earlier. Vin gets a lot more interesting as the story goes on but the early story does drag a bit.

I think this is an accurate assessment. It was actually the Wheel of Time series that got me into Sanderson. He breathed new life into the series making it funny and allowing the story to move forward again. He turned Egwene from one of my least fav characters to maybe my second fav. I loved her ending arc.

I've read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss in German. I had the first book from a coworker and the second from the library. It was beautifully translated. Once the next book is out, I'm going to buy the others in English. I'm very excited to read the original. I'm a bit nerdy about how a story is written. And I love authors who can use their words in artful ways, if you know what I mean.

Listen, I don't mean to break your heart, only manage expectations. Did you hear the uproar last summer about it?