The Conqueror Series (Booktober)

"Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride."

Ah, yes. The sound of hooves thundering along a dusty plateau. The scene from Mulan when the snowy ridge is crossed by thousands of horsemen to sweep down on Shang and his little cohort. There are so many more evocative images brought about by Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series that it's impossible to list them all. The story of Genghis and the birth of a nation out of what looked like nothing but sheep herders and shaggy ponies is the story of how one man dared to rise against the world - and the only thing that kept the world standing was his untimely death.

Otherwise, if the Mongols had continued their eternal ride, who knows? It might have been a completely different place ...

Side note: only the first three books tell the story of Genghis - the next two focus on his sons and grandsons, and what became of his empire after his death, but Iggulden's story telling remains masterful throughout!

Hunted and alone, the young boy abandoned with his siblings on the harsh Mongolian plains dreamed of uniting the tribes into one house, one nation. He became a great warrior. 

He would become father to his people. He would be Genghis Khan.

(from book jacket)

xx

*image not mine

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Tome Thursday: Conqueror

Hello everyone!

I apologise in advance if this particular blog post has some intermissions during which I spontaneously burst out singing 'You've Lost That Loving Feeling'.

Last night they aired Top Gun on television here, and while I can honestly say I'm not as big of a fan of that movie as some people (-cough-dad-cough-) I DO enjoy several scenes from that movie. Among them would have to be the bar scene, where Tom Cruise can't really sing to save his life, but you know; although the top would have to be 'You're gonna do WHAT?!?' because, come on.

I don't think anyone else can squeal as much!

But anyway.

Back to books tonight and I'm finally writing down my review of another Conn Iggulden masterpiece (though not, as yet, Bloodline. It's coming people, I promise). I went and finished Conqueror from his series about Genghis Khan and his legacy, and ordered my notes so that I actually see how they make sense now.

So, without further ado, I give you Conqueror. Or, in other words, Kublai Khan.

Tome Thursday: Empire of Silver

Hello everyone!

Suffice to say, when I'm bored out of my skull (and, by Murphy's law, want to read EXACTLY those books I currently can't), dangerous things will happen.

This does include cutting into every single chocolate in my chocolate box to ensure I only get the good stuff, but that's beside the point, as when I'm THIS bored, I usually pull out books that have been known to kick me out of my reading slump before.

My sister is probably rolling her eyes so she can examine the back of her skull.

She KNOWS what this means.

Usually she'd also be right - as she always is, natch - but I haven't gotten that far yet. What I HAVE done, however, is re-read one of my favourite series of all time. Or, I'm re-reading it now, actually, as I'm still munching through the last, fifth book.

I'm talking about Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series, more specifically Empire of Silver.

Tome Thursday: Stormbird

Hello everyone!

So I almost forgot about this blog tonight, mainly because I've had my head all over the place. I need to get a big board and hang it on the wall beside my desk so I can pin important stuff there or write what needs to be done in really big letters haha! Or maybe I need to find a gadget for my computer desktop so I can make post-it notes on it ... then again, actual post-its might work even better if I put them down in bright colours, right?

Back to the blog, since I digress, before Christmas I went to the capital to meet up with my cousins and take my sister home for the holidays, but I had some time to kill before our meeting and, as is usually the case when I'm in Ljubljana, I ended up at the bookshop (and by this, I mean the biggest bookshop in the city, obviously). I wasn't planning on taking anything home with me, seeing as I didn't want to drag along a ton of books.

BUT.

I saw two books by Conn Iggulden from his new 'Wars of the Roses' series, and I just had to have them.