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So I had to get these amazing second prints of the Malazan first three books in the series as they have art work and are signed by the author there beautiful 😍📚

Thank you @Deblovestoread for the tag #5JoysFriday

1) My Granddaughter is playing Soccer yay
2) My Grandson is starting to walk
3) My Daughter is starting her own company
4) spring is bringing green to the trees and flowers are blooming
5) My Hubby took a day off to spend time with me

Happy Friday to all and happy reading ☺️📚

I rearranged this shelf in my bedroom so I could extend the crow wigs on my special edition six of crows set and to better display my Malazan 1st edition books love this now 📚🙌🏽🥰😊

There is some humour along the way in this story

Not the most romantic proposition, I'm thinking.

Oops!

How not to capture a city.

The Malazan series was recommended to me but the start is hard going. It took a bit to get through the prologue and now I'm wading through the first chapter (40+ pages on my iPad); a lot of characters and situations are introduced with no prior knowledge on the readers' part. I'm assuming the going will get easier as I read.

Finally, I got round to starting this epic journey of Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Love the world building created by Steven Erikson, starting with Gardens of the Moon. 📚 📖

📚 ARGH! I wanted to hate or at least dislike this book.

Malazan Book of the Fallen
Book one

10 chonker epic fantasy reads

I haven‘t read much in this specific genre … so I was expecting to pitch it in the Stormlight Archive pile of mid.

Nope

Loved it

dammit

Rating might go up cuz I need to let it percolate. If you like epic fantasy give it a try, at least you‘ll be able to say you read 1/10. Epic fantasy street cred.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/4

My new sweatshirt love it 🙌🏽📖

I don‘t know how I missed this book/series when it was first out but wow it‘s good. If you like epic fantasy, this one checks all the boxes & yes, I bought the 2nd & 3rd books in the 10 book series before knowing whether or not Erikson will be able to maintain the excellence of the first book. It‘s always a risk with epic fantasy but the worldbuilding & characters are fantastic & I‘m super excited to continue the story.

Just received my Bridgeburners Shirt 🙌🏽🥰

My reading is all over the place right now. I‘m still working though The Mermaid & Mrs. Hancock as well as Salmon Wars—both of which I‘m really enjoying—but the tagged book caught my eyes, hanging out on my bookshelves as it was, I picked it up and now I can‘t put it down! That‘s a reader‘s life I suppose?!? 😬🤷‍♀️

All of #StevenEriksons books … all of them 👀🤗📖

My #Malazan collection looks great on the shelf below Anomander Rake 🤗🥰📖

Yes most of the time I do …. Really 📖🤗

Took me so long to get into this one. It was so freakin complicated. I am glad I stuck with bc it got very good in the last third.

As always a pleasure reading Mr. Erikson‘s work 🤗📖 a must read

Starting on the main 10 excited 📖🤨

Burning bridges since Pale… you can always count on The Bridgeburners 🤨📖

For all the Malazan fans out there here‘s my Anomander Rake poster in it frame… now I just have to hang it up 🤗📖🤨

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Pretty good start to a long fantasy series. I'll probably read more.

#3Books #thatwererecommendedtome

Really glad my friend recommended these! Although I haven‘t completed the Malazan Book of the Fallen 😅 - I will have to start over because it‘s been too long and there‘s just too many characters in this epic fantasy.

QOTD: What's your favorite fantasy series?

I'd have to make it a tie between ASOIAF and The Kingkiller Chronicles. I liked the two of them because of how scarce magic was. Characters often were forced to rely on their wits and wills. This one is a stark departure where it seems like everyone has some kind of magical ability. Not that I don't enjoy it. It's taken some getting used to, but I'm starting to get ahold of the characters, the world,

Just finished rereading this and I still love the world, characters, and storyline Erikson creates now on to the next 📖(p.s. the book was already in this shape prior to my ownership😖🤨)

1) Reading the tagged books
2) Aaron Elefsrud (hubby), my daughter‘s and grandkids I have 4 now just had another added yesterday morning 😍
3) where I now live Hawaii 🥰😍
@MoonWitch94
Thank you for the tag 😋

Going back to gena gena gena...backis 🤪🙌🏽📖 I really need my other books to come in 📚

When I read these books 😍😍😍📚📚📚📖😋

Tried to read this 12 months ago but gave up after about 200 pages. Just given it a second go and really enjoyed it. Not sure why I seemed to struggle with it first time round. Well worth persevering with.

#SelfImprovementSept READING GOALS: Been in a slump most of August, so my goals include keeping up on my reading schedule for Gardens of the Moon—a group read on FB—and catching up with my BBRC reading challenge. (Just added another goal: #agathachristieclubr2) @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

This book lived up to expectations, both in quality and complexity. It took a little longer than usual to finish, but I never lost interest (and often found myself thinking about it when I wasn't reading). I'm excited that there are so many books in this series (9 more, plus several spinoffs and prequels) because it means I can spend literally years of my life with these characters and in this world. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

I've always wanted to lose myself in a really long fantasy series, but in my two attempts (Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time and Brandon Sanderson's in-progress Stormlight Archive) I failed to make it past the first installment. However, I recently started the Malazan Book of the Fallen and I feel like this is a series I will stick with.

A first book of an epic journey (10 books in total). Hard to get used to the writing style but you should persever it because it only gets better. I highly recommend the whole epic series.

Gardens of the Moon book review: https://youtu.be/han4VKiFUjk

#gardensofthemoon #bookreview #stevenrerikson #literarylife

Another book finished in the Malazan series. Once again I like that not all the books are about the same story line or characters although the characters may have been mentioned in previous books the deal with different people at different times but are all combined (so far) to build a complete community and story line love it 😊

Battling her way through 3 more chapters to complete the homework for class seemed impossible... but for some unknown reason there was a deeper feeling pushing her forward almost as if an unknown for was helping her through... could it be a greater being... 😳😝🤣🤣🤣

I think I forgot to mention I‘ve moved to this book in the series and it‘s a little past my lunch 😝 but I‘m watching my granddaughter and while she‘s napping I‘m getting some reading in 😋📖 (zucchini walnut toast and avocados yum 😋)

#WeekendChat @CSeydel

🌟l don't think l've ever read a book because the film was coming out. But l've read many books after watching the film
🌟Gardens of the Moon, the first in the Malazan Empire series. I was quite disappointed. Never read any other novels in the series.
🌟Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Licia Troisi, Neil Gaiman, Frank McCourt, Tony Morrison
🌟Red beans and rice. In a cosy mystery there was the complete recipes. Had to try 😄

So I‘m waiting to get the rest of the books related to this series and apparently there are two authors Steven Erickson and Ian C Esslemont and there‘s a certain order to reading them 😝📖📚📚📚 so I‘ll have to slowly collect the books and start at the beginning

@BenAdaephonDelat and I have already read this book and love it.

I started reading this series after finishing Brandon Sanderson's most recent book. I had read a few reviews and forums saying the writing style is fairly similar.
Gardens of the Moon does have a similar geopolitical developmental style as Sanderson.
The only downfall in this book to me was that the book gradually lessens in linguistic complexity and violent imagery that was displayed in the earlier parts of the book.

My #bookresolutions this year are to finish more series, start (and finish!) Malazan, read more classics, and let myself take the time to enjoy them all. My other resolution is to be more present on Litsy because it's a wonderful community that I've missed!! #readingresolutions

Reading this based off of Twitter recommendations. Hoping it‘s good!

Amazing book but so complex

This is Puck. We had Puck for 3-4 years before we got Arya and he is a jealous old man. If he sees us petting Arya, he will perch on me until he feels like I have given sufficient compensatory cuddles. Currently interrupting my book time. #catsoflitsy #oldmanpuck

Enjoying a quick #booknlunch (no cake this time I am being so good!)