Books read in July

1. Jul 03: Flight from the Dark by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Kai #1) 1984 [O]
Took three tries to make it to the end
2. Jul 04: Fire on the Water by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Kai #2) 1984 [O]
Magic Spear and Helmet!
3. Jul 04: Caverns of Kalte by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Kai #3) 1984 [O]
The easiest adventure so far. The Sommerswerd is a bit overpowered
4. Jul 05: Chasm of Doom by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Kai #4) 1985 [O]
Did fail the mission once, however combat is still almost without risk.
5. Jul 05: Shadow on the Sand by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Kai #5) 1985 [O]
Nicely balanced. I was able to complete it without dying, but it took resourcefulness, and I was down to 10hp in the end.
6. Jul 06: Grey Star the Wizard by Ian Page & Joe Dever, illus. Paul Bonner (World of Lone Wolf #1) 1985 [O]
Much more challenging than the Lone Wolf Books. Especially combat
7. Jul 07: Forbidden City by Ian Page & Joe Dever, illus. Paul Bonner (World of Lone Wolf #2) 1985 [O]
Missing the usual "recovery" moments. I still only died once.
8. Jul 07: Beyond the Nightmare Gate by Ian Page & Joe Dever, illus. Paul Bonner (World of Lone Wolf #3) 1986 [O]
Rather Surreal, by the author's intention
9. Jul 07: War of the Wizards by Ian Page & Joe Dever, illus. Paul Bonner (World of Lone Wolf #4) 1986 [O]
There were some tense moments, but once again the McGuffin overpowered the character
10. Jul 10: Kingdoms of Terror by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Magnakai #1) 1985 [O]
Some nice challenges, but missing a bit of something at the end.
11. Jul 10: A Thousand Words for Stranger by Julie E. Czerneda (Trade Pact #1) 1997 [S]
A story of Star-crossed Telepaths, remarkably similar to Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire.
12. Jul 12: Naked by David Sedaris 1997 [S]
It is Funny because it is True
13. Jul 13: Castle Death by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Magnakai #2) 1986 [O]
An excellent dungeon crawl.
14. Sparrow Hill Road, 2010 [O]
    • Jul 15: Do You Want to Dance? by Seanan McGuire (Episode 7)
    Sometimes it's cold being a hitcher-ghost.
15. Shadow Unit, Season 3, 2010 [O]
    • Jul 16: The Unicorn Evils by Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear (Episode 3.01)
    They didn't pull punches with this one
    • Jul 17: Basilisk Hunt by Emma Bull and Holly Black (Episode 3.02)
    Nice minature story
    • Jul 17: Always Crashing In The Same Car by Will Shetterly (Episode 3.03)
    An interesting twist
16. Jul 19: The Jungle of Horrors by Joe Dever, illus. Gary Chalk (Lone Wolf: Magnakai #3) 1987 [O]
Not as much "gear" as I typically like, but good adventure.
17. Jul 21: Beholder's Eye by Julie Czerneda (Web Shifters #1) 1998 [R]
A clever cast of aliens. Loyalty without romance is a novel theme.
18. Jul 22: The Cauldron of Fear by Joe Dever, illus. Brian Williams (Lone Wolf: Magnakai #4) 1987 [O]
Unreasonably tough end boss spoils the book.
19. Jul 27: Changing Vision by Julie Czerneda (Web Shifters #2) 2000 [S]
A fun mid-trilogy book

I read so many online books this month, I decided to color code them by series.
Serials such as Sparrow Hill Road, or Shadow Unit I am counting as a collection of short stories, one book per year. I have decided to count each Lone Wolf, or World of Lone Wolf story as a seperate book, because they were actually published as seperate books.

Final Day for Pegasus Nominations!

This is it! If you are a fan of filk, please submit nominations for the The Pegasus Award for Excellence in Filking Today¹.


1. July 31, 2010, 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Savings Time²
2. Because to the best of my knowledge there are no filkers in Hawaii