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Saba | Reader | Book Lover | Reviewer

[monolime]

The Wraith / The Bastard of the Barrel / The Sharpshooter / The Merchling / The Drüskelle / The Heartrender

[eggdrawsthings]

omg i didn’t expect to receive this many positive responses from everyone. you guys are the best!!!

anw here’s the stand alone illustration of each character.

and thank you so much @neil-gaiman for reblogging this project of mine. It means so much to me, like a seal of approval from you haha <3

[eggdrawsthings]

Liza Hempstock from The Graveyard Book

[eggdrawsthings]

finished design of Silas from The Graveyard Book ( ’ v’)/

the cape was taken from @neil-gaiman‘s outfit here: http://www.kambriel.com/woolwrap.html

[eggdrawsthings]

Nobody Owens from The Graveyard Book. Concept by me. My minor project in school UvU first time try to render in KeyShot, the program is so so cool i wanna try more and make some proper renders with it xD #minor #schoolpj #zbrush #maya #keyshot #sculpt #art #instaart #artistsoninstagram #artofsaltedegg

[eggdrawsthings]

uhm so yeh my version of Nobody Owens when he’s trying to make a tombstone for Liza ; v; probably will just stick with this for my zbrush sculpt of him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[i-am-weis]

Rex Corvus, parate Regis Corvi The Raven King, make way for the Raven King.

-The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

[felidadae]

so I finally finished book one from the raven cycle ….now I need to go devour the other two ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧

[i-am-weis]

(art block is only letting me draw profiles, so here: more of the same!)

[judebuarte]

[macrolit]

Some of my older hardcover books

[that-pissed-off-tolkien-blogger]

The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters

All titles listed in chronological order. There are 20 novels and three short stories in one compilation book (A Rare Benedictine). Yes, I do have two copies of A Morbid Taste for Bones. This is because the first copy (the one book with no style match) is a signed edition and not a book I want to tote around outside of the house. (Fun fact: I stole this book from my HS library and gave them a brand new one in return.)

TCC bibliography with setting (s.) and publication (p.) dates

1) A Morbid Taste for Bones (s. 1137, p. 8/1977) 2) One Corpse Too Many (s. 8/1138, p. 7/1979) 3) Monk’s Hood (s. 12/1138, p. 8/1980) 4) Saint Peter’s Fair (s. 7/1139, p. 5/1981) 5) The Leper of Saint Giles (s. 10/1139, p. 8/1981) 6) The Virgin in the Ice (s. 11/1139, p. 4/1982) 7) The Sanctuary Sparrow (s. spring of 1140, p. 1/1983) 8) The Devil’s Novice (s. 9/1140, p. 8/1983) 9) Dead Man’s Ransom (s. 2/1141, p. 4/1984) 10) The Pilgrim of Hate (s. 5/1141, p. 9/1984) 11) An Excellent Mystery (s. 8/1141, p. 6/1985) 12) The Raven in the Foregate (s. 12/1141, p. 2/1986) 13) The Rose Rent (s. 6/1142, p. 10/1986) 14) The Hermit of Eyton Forest (s. 10/1142, p. 6/1987) 15) The Confession of Brother Haluin (s. 12/1142, p. 2/1988) –) A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (s. 1120, p. 9/1988) 16) The Heretic’s Apprentice (s. 6/1143, p. 2/1989) 17) The Potter’s Field (s. 8/1143, p. 9/1989) 18) The Summer of the Danes (s. 4/1144, p. 4/1991) 19) The Holy Thief (s. 2/1145, p. 8/1192) 20) Brother Cadfael’s Penance (s. 11/1145, p. 5/1994)

[susiephone]

when will YA authors realize that the mr. darcy fantasy isn’t “hot rich guy is a huge dick to you” but “hot rich guy fucking respects and listens to you”

[inkbleeder]

“hot rich guy only seems like a huge dick because he has the social skills of an agarophobic lobster.”

[rosefrith]

The full set at last! 

These days everyone’s all about sparkly vampires and tyrannical dictatorships trying to make you get with cute boys, and I’m just over here with my 90s YA heroine, who hangs out with marmosets and egg-laying mammals and rides dinosaur skeletons over tyrannical dictatorships before breakfast. 

I really wanted to stick a tubby little duck-billed platypus into the final cover - and I still might. Don’t tempt me!

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[neil-gaiman]

It is Douglas Adams’ birthday today. He would have been 65. He was only 30 when this Polaroid was taken, and I was a 22 year old journalist there to interview him. I wish he were still with us. We need his mind.

[bookwardeverlasting-deactivated]

April Book Photo Challenge

Day 13: Artistic Cover(s)

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Neilsen

[howlsmovinglibrary]

I’m looking for ‘classic’ fantasy recs - along the lines of Lord of the Rings or Ursula Le Guin? 

Bonus points if it’s not depressingly sexist/racist/queerphobic in some way, but I won’t keep my hopes up!

[agardenandlibrary]

All I can think of right now is Raymond Feist, starting with the Magician books, and Alison Croggon’s Pellinor series. It’s been so long since I’ve read either that I’m not sure if they meet your other criteria.

Reblogging for follower input! I’m so braindead this morning ;_;

[oldshrewsburyian]

Lord Dunsany is a fascinating fantasy author who has deep thoughts about land and community, and his short story collection The Sword of Welleran is available free online. I think “The Kith of the Elf Folk” is a savage critique of colonialism and the narrowness of Victorian religious sensibilities – see what you think. I also like his novel The King of Elfland’s Daughter.

Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence is new to me, and I love it; it was written for children, but is rich in language and ideas.

Then there’s Charles Williams… to quote a website devoted to him, “his writings are startling, convoluted, beautiful, unpredictable, and obscure.” You might try The Place of the Lion, which opens, amazingly, with the following sentence: “From the top of the bank, behind a sparse hedge of thorn, the lioness stared at the Hertfordshire road.”

Since you mention LOTR, I might also throw out a rec for Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, which is not really written as fantasy, but imagines an early medieval world with magic latent in the land and active in people’s lives.

[bluestockingcouture]

Of the classic fantasy I’ve read, I enjoyed The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison and Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis the most.