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Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

October 7, 2021 by Ale 1 Comment

Any time I don’t know what to read, I revert to Pratchett. There’s something comforting about the characters and the setting, of knowing you’re going back to a place that will both make you laugh and make you think. So I knew as soon as I saw the “old series” square, that it would have to be a Pratchett. I read Unseen Academicals for the first time back in 2012. I had not yet returned to the shining ivory tower of professional academia, but I […]

Dragonlance Ret-Chronicles

Shadow and Light by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook

Kendermore by Mary Kirchoff

The Brothers Majere by Kevin Stein

Riverwind the Plainsman by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook

Flint the King by Mary Kirchoff and Douglas Niles

Tanis: The Shadow Years by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragons of the Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

July 31, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

CBR13Bingo – Old Series! So I am calling these the ret-chronicles because there’s some reverse engineering happening here storywise. This happens a few ways. For one, certain events and knowledge that would have been really important and useful in the War of the Lance, appears here in this books, but not in the main novels. And sometimes this forgetting is dealt with and sometimes not. For another, no one talks about most of these things in the main novels and it seems like some of […]

Definitely an old series–that holds up really well

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar

Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger by Louis Sachar

Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar

July 26, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

Old Series: the newest installment in this series comes 25 years(!) after the last, and 44(!!!) years since the first A mild content warning for some old school “humor” around kids being fat which didn’t age the best but is also not used in a bullying way Sideways Stories from Wayside School In advance of reading the new(!) fourth installment in this delightful series, I thought I’d re-read the original three in rapid succession. I have fond memories of these books and their particular brand […]

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