Bibliolyra
🇬🇧🇩🇪📚 - Social Media: Monnett --> "bibliolyra" - Chronological reading project --> shelves "project 1800-1899" & "project 1900-1999"
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Howdy, well met, and good tidings to you, friend!
It can be a bit lonely in space, so we’re putting together a crew to venture into the farthest reaches of questdom. First series on our journey? James SA Corey’s The Expanse.
For those unfamiliar, this series is nine (9) books, which is par for the course in an “epically scoped” quest. However, this one is special because it’s actually intended to be read as three duologies and a final trilogy, so that’s what my hope is for our pacing.
We will be starting with Leviathan Wakes on April 1 and taking the month to read through and discuss! It’s about 600 pages (21 hours for our ear-readers) with plenty of thematic elements and characters to keep track of, so take your time. You’ll have a crew at your back to chat with!
Speaking of, in order to help us find each other a little better, if you make your own post, feel free to put OES🚀 in the header/title so we can easily see our buddy read friends. Make sure to follow standard Pagebound evergreen 🌲 etiquette by searching the forum and commenting on similar posts before making a new one.
We’ve got a great crew shaping up, and I’m looking forward to chatting with and getting to know you all as we progress! Godspeed, and good luck, spacer! 💕 🚀
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"I did nothing but run away from the time I was a puppy, and I kept on running and roving until one fine morning - a very fine morning, with the sun in my eyes - I fell over the world's edge chasing a butterfly."
This is one of my favourite non-Middle-earth stories by Tolkien. It's a novella about the adventures of a young and very excitable dog called Rover. After being rude to an irritable wizard, Rover gets turned into a toy as punishment. He then sets out to find the wizard, so that he can turn him back into a real dog again and find his way home to his owner, a little boy. His adventures lead him to the moon and under the sea, where he meets several interesting characters.
Tolkien "wrote Roverandom for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favourite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach of grey shingle stones the same size and colour as the toy."
Love Tolkien's original illustrations for this story!
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"I did nothing but run away from the time I was a puppy, and I kept on running and roving until one fine morning - a very fine morning, with the sun in my eyes - I fell over the world's edge chasing a butterfly."
This is one of my favourite non-Middle-earth stories by Tolkien. It's a novella about the adventures of a young and very excitable dog called Rover. After being rude to an irritable wizard, Rover gets turned into a toy as punishment. He then sets out to find the wizard, so that he can turn him back into a real dog again and find his way home to his owner, a little boy. His adventures lead him to the moon and under the sea, where he meets several interesting characters.
Tolkien "wrote Roverandom for his son Michael to amuse him upon the loss of his favourite toy, a little leaden dog which he lost on a beach of grey shingle stones the same size and colour as the toy."
Love Tolkien's original illustrations for this story!
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Games & Trials 🏅🎯🏁
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Competitions for power, notoriety, love, or maybe even your life.
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Universe Quest: Lord of the Rings & Tolkien's Legendarium 🧙♂️🌳🔥
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The four books in Tolkien’s main Middle-earth saga + several other collections published posthumously.
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Universe Quest: Lord of the Rings & Tolkien's Legendarium
Champion: Finished 5 Side Quest books.
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Universe Quest: Realm of the Elderlings 🐉⚔️🌊
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If you're a completionist, read in this order. Otherwise you can start with The Liveship Traders Trilogy or The Rain Wild Chronicles, but make sure you save Fitz and the Fool for last.
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Russian Lit 101 🪆🇷🇺📚
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Masterpieces of Russian literature, attempting to cover a broad range of the most well known authors.
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Blood Suckers 🩸⚰️🧛🏾♀️
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Greetings dear mortals, I bid you welcome to this humble Quest. Enter freely of your own will, though you may not leave the same...for the vamp lovers.
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Epic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series 📚⏳😍
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Whether it's sci-fi or fantasy, you like a big series. You love when a book says 1 of 5/10/50+. Is the reading order of the series hotly debated? Is there a wiki chart to show how the books connect? Even better. Come spend some time in these worlds.
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Epic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Series
Bronze: Finished 5 Main Quest books.
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Fantasy and Sci-Fi with a Side of Romance 🐉💘🚀
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Dramatic battles, tense political intrigue, unique world building...and is that maybe some romance I'm sensing? These books are not Romantasy but focus primarily on the SFF elements. Romance is a subplot and may not appear until later in the series, but when it does, you won't be disappointed.
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