Writers in Residence discussion

Just because this is a writers group, that does not mean we can't talk about books! If you are looking for books, ask for recommendations here!

I can give some recommendations.
I’ll just leave the links to my two “favorites” shelves.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Thank you!

I would recommend checking out my book list in my blog for some of my favorite books !
https://cultivatingcozy.blog/book-lists/

Here's a super cool writing group that i fully support
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

I've recently read the Historian Tales series (beginning with The Price of Creation) by Lance Conrad and it is so good. The official description for the series is:

"The Historian is a reluctant immortal who wanders through times and worlds to witness great stories. His own story, however, is unknown to him. As he participates in the great stories he encounters, he gets glimpses of what his life might have been like before he became a Historian.

Worlds of various technologies and even magic pass under his feet as he is carried from place to place by his own feet and whatever powers took his name from him."

The whole series is you watching from his point of view as he witnesses great stories unfold. Each chapter begins with a "Musing of the Historian." Some of my favorites are:

"Only a fool underestimates a man with nothing to lose."

"If you want to see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more."

"All feel justified. To find the truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong."

"To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle."

"The easiest way to be invisible is to stand where no one is looking."

I have to stop now or I'll list them all, but all of the ones above are from The Price of Nobility, the second book in the series. I love this series so much. In fact, I think it is now part of my top three. The technical age group is 10-18, but in my opinion, as soon as you can understand what is going on, you can enjoy this series.

This technically isn't a book, but it is very, very good.

The Silver Eye by Laura Hollingsworth is so, so amazing. It's a webcomic (I've put the link down below), which I normally don't like, but this just reached out to me. The author does a bunch of art for KoTLC if you're a fan of that, and the official description is this:
Rated PG | Updates with a new page every Friday
The Silver Eye began in 2009. It is an action-adventure webcomic of the Fantasy persuasion, written from a Christian worldview.

Two rival royal families are always at odds. The conflict reaches a point where one child king, Apen, sacrifices himself and his country to prevent another war. This leads to some disastrous consequences. The story follows his journey to try to set things right, and if he’s going to do so, he has to work alongside members of his rival family.

Link: thesilvereye.com/

Doesn't Laura Hollingsworth draw the official KotLC portraits?

Yes

Yeah, she does. That's how I found TSE. I saw that she also did stuff for something called "The Silver Eye," which made me think that it was another book series that I wanted to read. When I discovered that it was a webcomic, I read it in two sittings and then read it again. It's a complex storyline, so the more you read it the easier it is to understand.

Oh, I forgot to post this, but while the comic itself is very clean, there are a few scenes with a lot of blood. If you have a problem with that, you'll want to skip 8x22 - 9x07 and 6x08 - 6x09. It also had multiple Christian perspectives in case you are uncomfortable with that.