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Crash Course in Fantasy Webinar Chat Transcript 1:40 PM While we are waiting where's everyone from? 1:40 PM "The NoveList Team is in Durham, North Carolina" 1:48 PM "I'm from Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada :)" 1:49 PM "Hello, I am in Atlanta." 1:49 PM "I am from Mayfield, Kentucky." 1:50 PM "Carver County, Minnesota" 1:50 PM "Thomaston, Georgia" 1:50 PM "Hello from Charleston, West Viriginia!" 1:52 PM "Hi, FYI....I am joining the webinar with Heather Goodwin on her computer...just in case you are looking for responses from my computer." 1:52 PM "Hello! I'm from Downers Grove, Illinois. " 1:52 PM Hello. In the 80s I read a great deal of SF&F. I've know I was very out of date for decades. Looking forward to learning here. 1:54 PM How can I check the audio? 1:55 PM "St. Clair, MIchigan" 1:55 PM "Greetings from Henrico County, Virginia!" 1:55 PM "Hello from Dallas, Texas!" 1:55 PM "Oh, Mercer County NJ" 1:56 PM "Oh, good! It works! :) " 1:56 PM "Hail from Clarkston, MI" 1:56 PM "Ok thanks, it works!" 1:56 PM Greetings from Colorado! 1:56 PM "Hi from Tucson, AZ" 1:56 PM Hello from New Hampshire. 1:56 PM Hello from Mercer County! This is Julia and Andrew also from Mercer County. (Hi Mary Elizabeth) 1:57 PM Greetings from Kentucky 1:57 PM Thanks for testing 1:57 PM "Hello from Lincoln, Nebraska!" 1:57 PM "Hi from Virginia Beach, VA. Fantasy is kind of the best." 1:57 PM agreed 1:57 PM Hello all! No spoilers here! 1:57 PM agreed 1:57 PM "Decatur, GA" 1:57 PM audio check(confirmed) 1:57 PM Hello from Illinois! 1:57 PM Bernard Norcott-Mahany from Kansas City. 1:57 PM Listening from Kansas 1:57 PM "I have never seen any of Game of Thrones, so no problems for me." 1:57 PM Hello from Canada! 1:57 PM "Hi from Frederick County, MD" 1:57 PM Deal 1:58 PM you dont need to watch it 1:58 PM "No GoT spoilers here, I promise!" 1:58 PM "Virginia Beach, VA here. " 1:58 PM I haven’t watched any episodes because no cable 1:58 PM "stopped after bok 3, new saw TV. Should be very easy for me" 1:58 PM Hello from NJ 1:58 PM Norse Mythology 1:58 PM The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 1:58 PM favorite is wizard of earthsea 1:58 PM Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives 1:58 PM Eragon is one of my all time favorites. 1:58 PM The Two Towers by Tolkien 1:58 PM Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 1:58 PM "Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time" 1:58 PM Kevin Hearne -- all the books! 1:58 PM Chronicles of Amber 1:58 PM Seanan McGuire's October Daye series 1:58 PM I'm a big fan of Name of the Wind 1:58 PM Really enjoying Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series 1:58 PM Just read Middlegame by Seanan McGuire and it was awesome! 1:58 PM "I'm not a fantasy person, so I thought this would be a good intro!" 1:58 PM Favorite ever? LotR 1:58 PM "Always Harry Potter, but Trail of Lightning" 1:59 PM "I go for historic fantasy, esp Guy Gavriel Kay" 1:59 PM I'm currently relistening to the Chronicles of Narnia again 1:59 PM Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is incredible 1:59 PM Dresden Files and Alex Verus 1:59 PM The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold 1:59 PM Conan by Robert E. Howard 1:59 PM Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier 1:59 PM Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series 1:59 PM The Bear and the Nightingale series by Katherine Arden was GREAT 1:59 PM A Wrinkle In Time 1:59 PM Currently reading Farseer Trilogy. Love Name of the Wind & Nightrunner series 1:59 PM Kevin Hearne and Scott Lynch are awesome also 1:59 PM The only fantasy I've read has been The Lord of the Rings 1:59 PM Outlander series 1:59 PM I’m reading Bethany Adams’ Return of the Elves series. Great books 1:59 PM Host by Stephanie Meyer 1:59 PM "In from Pelham, Alabama. Recent favorites are Foundryside and The Poppy War" 1:59 PM Sword of Shannara 1:59 PM The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley 1:59 PM "Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss, Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson, First Law Trilogy, Bartimaeus Trilogy" 1:59 PM I just finished Aru Shah and the End of Time and the Rebel of the Sands trilogy. 1:59 PM I've been wanting to read NK Jemisin's books and Lev Grossman's Magicians. 1:59 PM "The Bear and the Nightingale was AWESOME, yes!" 1:59 PM Patrick Rothfuss 1:59 PM Winternight Trilogy 1:59 PM "North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I'm currently reading The Binding by Bridget Collins" 1:59 PM Year One (sucked) 1:59 PM Shades of Magic series 1:59 PM Dead Witch Walking 1:59 PM Jim Butcher's Dresden Files and Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles 1:59 PM I am looking for suggestions for my Readers Advisory questions - so thank you! 1:59 PM favorite fantasy book is art of the deal 1:59 PM Winternight Trilogy by Katherine Arden was amazing 1:59 PM I loved the Shades of Magic series! 1:59 PM "Really love Patrick Rothfuss's stuff, but I've been waiting for that third book FOREVER!" 1:59 PM Does everyone have audio? 1:59 PM Anything by Mercedes Lackey 1:59 PM Harry Potter and Children of Blood and Bone 1:59 PM children of blood and bone 1:59 PM Anything by Guy Gavriel Kay 1:59 PM "Anything by Naomi Novik, especially Uprooted and the Temeraire series" 1:59 PM I can't hear anything wearing headphones 1:59 PM The Priory of the Orange Tree 1:59 PM The Trouble with Witches (Shadowvale Book 1) by Kristen Painter 1:59 PM Saga by Bryan K. Vaughan 1:59 PM Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst 2:00 PM Shades of London by Maureen Johnson is a great YA option! 2:00 PM Nine Kingdoms by Lynn Kurland 2:00 PM Shades of Magic is great! 2:00 PM Great! 2:00 PM Make sure to download the slides and certificate for this presentation at: http://bit.ly/2JZi63V 2:00 PM Incarnations of Immortality 2:00 PM I recently read my first Brandon Sanderson trilogy and am fully converted to him as an author! Loved it! 2:00 PM Not a big fantasy read--am here to learn more! I do like historical fantasy like the Bear and the Nightingale and The Golem and the Jinni 2:00 PM N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series 2:00 PM Storm Light archive by Brandon Sanderson 2:00 PM "R.S Butcher," 2:00 PM now i can hear 2:00 PM So many good recommendations here! So exciting! 2:00 PM L.E. Modesitt's Saga of Recluse (currently #21) 2:00 PM Hi from Indiana 2:00 PM "Favortes: The Blue Sword, Forgotten Beasts of Eld, The Dragon and the Crown." 2:00 PM Neuromancer (if that counts) 2:00 PM Robin Hobb - Farseer Series and all the volumes that follow it. Ursuala K. LeGuinn's 3 additions to the Earthsea Trilogy. Mercedes Lackey's Herald's Series 2:00 PM I'm a bit of a blank slate. Want to be able to recommend a few titles to our patrons. 2:01 PM Delvers LLC by Blaise Corvin 2:01 PM Make sure to download the slides and certificate for this presentation at: http://bit.ly/2JZi63V 2:01 PM Jim Butcher and Seanan McGuire 2:01 PM Night Circus 2:01 PM "Bone Season series, but I am tired of waititng for more in the series." 2:01 PM Conan series 2:01 PM Jirel of Joiry 2:01 PM Good Omens by Pratchett & Gaiman 2:01 PM "currently reading Storm of Locusts, sequel to Trail of Lightning" 2:01 PM Magician: Apprentice and Master by Raymond Feist 2:01 PM Deltora Quest series 2:02 PM "Hello from Tiburon, CA. I love everything by Catherynne Valente, Leigh Bardugo and Maggie Stiefvater!" 2:02 PM Queen of the Tearling trilogy 2:02 PM His Majesty's Dragon: A Novel of Temeraire 2:02 PM Piers Anthony's Xanth series 2:02 PM "Oh, and ANYTHING by Walter Moers!" 2:02 PM Hi I am here 2:02 PM "Woo-hoo! Can't wait for this presentation. Go, Annabelle, Victoria and Kathy!" 2:02 PM How could I forget Discworld!? 2:02 PM Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey is a must read 2:02 PM Tolkien of course 2:02 PM Terry Pratchett is THE best. 2:03 PM Zen Cho: Sorceror to the Crown 2:03 PM "I just finished ""The Cruel Prince"" by Holly Black and really enjoyed it" 2:03 PM Loved Uprooted and Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 2:03 PM I am able to hear 2:04 PM Did it start? I have no sound 2:04 PM Love Terry Pratchett too.
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