Look, we all know I’m not the best at being consistent with blogging haha. May has been a busy month for me – friends in town, catching COVID….etc. But now it’s blogging time again baby!! Today (May 21st) is International Tea Day so we decided to create a book character tea party. Which if you think about it, is actually quite difficult! Because a lot of characters out there, at least in SFF, are not ummm well-suited to attending a calm tea party haha. Do you think you can guess any of my attendees? Here’s a hint in the form of the books I chose from.

You can tell that April has been a slow and unproductive (blog wise) month for me since my post before last was my round 4 summary. Oops. Oh well! Sometimes life just gets in the way. ANYWAY, here is my Pondathon II round 5 summary!

A few notes:

• All of the Pondathon graphics were created by CW of The Quiet Pond and belong to her!
• Find my intro post about joining Pondathon II here!
• And find all my other Pondathon blog posts here!

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court.
And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She will fight warriors and sorcerers. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate.

You all know I love a good retelling right? So obviously when TorDotCom asked me to review Spear by Nicola Griffith, I couldn’t say no. I hadn’t read anything by this author before, but now I will definitely be looking forward to more from her. And picking up her backlist works! Her prose is beautiful, and I love how she took Arthurian legend and made it genderbent and queer.

Hello friends! It is now April, and that means that round 4 of Pondathon II has finished! I’ve been really enjoying this whole readathon, and especially connecting with other participants via social media and/or Discord. And good god my TBR has exploded even more from hearing about all the books people are reading! So anyway, I’m gonna tell you a bit about what the quests and rewards were for this round, and what I read! And of course at the end I’ll show you my garden.

A few notes:

• All of the Pondathon graphics were created by CW of The Quiet Pond and belong to her!
• Find my intro post about joining Pondathon II here!
• And find all my other Pondathon blog posts here!

Okay, imagine that you’ve been hired (or coerced) into executing a high stakes heist for a magical artifact. Which book characters would you choose to make up your heist squad? I’ll share the books that I chose characters from – can you guess which characters and why I chose them? I mean, before you read the rest of the post and find out hahaha.