The Bodhisattva

*opens window and puts away the AK hoping today will be a good day*
Back for the weekly look back at all things BookSpot Central!
-Reviews:
- Jeff Sullins returns and reviews a new Dave Duncan book for us, Ill Met in the Arena:
The storyline serves up fantasy, action, and mystery. Rather than relying on swords and sorcery, [...]

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*Opens window, pull out Parzybok’s couch to the porch and reads the August 1977 issues of Analog*
-Exclusives:
This week we have a 10k word excerpt from Couch by Benjamin Parzybok - the latest from Small Beer Press!
More to come from the home for sweet exclusive samples to our readers! Big thanks to both the author and [...]

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*opens window while pondering why that a Renly figure didn’t come with the Knight of Flowers figure in the Dark Sword Miniatures set*
Back with the week that was at BookSpot Central!
-Interviews:
- I kicked off our shorter, topic-specific, slightly tongue-and-cheek interview format this week - The BookSpot Beat - talking Predator with Jeff VanderMeer and [...]

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Over at BookSpot Central I just announced a contest for all of those Wheel of Time fans that want to scout the guy that’s going to be ending their saga! What they are going to find is some solid work by Brandon Sanderson and here is chance to grab four of his books - signed! [...]

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*opens window and begins to swap stories with Leodora and the little girl from the Night Garden passing around a bottle of the finest wine from the Arbor*
Another look at the week of ‘bookspot that was! Another week goes by and still no justice for your host, as no new design news to announce. Apparently [...]

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Reading!
Posts have been slim as of late because I am in rededicating myself (had to recharge), and been on a reading/writing splurge. I just finished Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, and I have to say I rather enjoyed it (review being typed now) which was quality because I thought Ruckley’s Winterbirth was going to bore [...]

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Someone asked me for an update on the reading pile…\par
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and damn it, I’m the middle of reading Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley and it’s one of those books that I simply can’t muster any enthusiasm for. I’ll be reviewing this for a non-FBS related site so I will details for then (a sort of [...]

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