#the amulet of Samarkand

[lejay-the-impossible]

The Amulet of Samarkand climax story beats

Drew a bunch in one day. Stroud's climaxes are always epic, but weirdly enough are mostly never the coolest part of his books, because the things that get me excited the most are character dynamics and witty dialogues with 30 layers of subtext and a million forshadowings.

@jonathan.stroud

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

[silverfeatheredserpent]

а disgruntled Bartimaeus

[radijaad]

Made a book cover for class, this series was my fav as a kid so

[hauntedbythenarrative]

The Amulet of Samarkand, Jonathan Stroud//Small Favors, Erin A. Craig//Spirited Away: Themes, SparkNotes//Incantation (2022), Kevin Ko

[kathea]

A birthday gift for my friend @yonetee ❤

She got me to read the Amulet of Samarkand and then she asked for fanart of it. :D So I drew the djinn Bartimaeus in his favourite form.

I've never really heard anyone else mention this book (other than Yone), and it's a pity because it's such a great book! I love how both the main characters are arrogant and mostly following their own goals instead of being the cliché perfect heroes who save everyone. XD

[fedordostoevskij]

hey do any of you remember the bartimaeus trilogy

[drowninginabactatank]

$1 books from an opshop~

The Iron Tree by Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor & another copy of The Silmarillion by Tolkien because you can never have too many 📚🥰

I loved the Bartimaeus Trilogy as a teen, I used to have signed copies from meeting him at the writer's festival in highschool.

[deadiez]

books I read in april 2024

[incorrectbartimaeusquotes]

Mr Underwood: You wake me at night, you don't let me punch kids — this marriage has really gone downhill.

[wizardnaturalist]

I dont know what dots Im connecting but Im connecting them

[lejay-the-impossible]

The Amulet of Samarkand: Chapter One animatic

Here's a project I've been working on for a year and a half. It took me a lot longer than I expected and the process of actually animating anything was just 40% of the time I spent on this.

Really hope you like it! Comments and reshares are appreciated!

[e-b-reads]

Books of the month: March + April 2023

Failed to do any post like this for March, so now I am catching up all at once! For new followers/those who do not know, I am both a part-time PhD student and work at a summer camp (which is a retreat center in the off-season, but summer is the really busy time of year). Anyway, between the end of the semester and getting prepped for camp, the busy season has started earlier for me than usual. Doesn't mean I'm not reading! Just means I'm posting less about it. Here's books I read in March and April that I would recommend:

The Amulet of Samarkand (Jonathan Stroud): Had one of those impulses to use inter-library loan and reread a series I last read sometime in middle or high school. This time it's the Bartimaeus triology. (I also reread The Golem's Eye in the past two months; waiting on the third.) Anyway, I remember the books as engaging and funny, which they are; this time around I'm spending more time thinking about all the political and ethical questions raised by this fantasy society that's like our world except magicians rule everything. (i.e. I'm spending more time admiring Stroud's worldbuilding.) A series worth reading/rereading!

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (C.J. Box, Ed.): These were fun and fascinating, sometimes at the same time and sometimes by turns. When busy, it can be nice to have some short stories to dip into, and I always like mysteries. I especially spent time considering what exactly makes a "mystery" - some of these are more whodunnits (occasionally with a twist), others are mysterious but the reader knows what happened, others have crime and/or action but no one's solving anything. All good in different ways!

A Free Man of Color or One Extra Corpse (Barbara Hambly): Right, so I have already written about my love of the Benjamin January mystery series at least in passing. A Free Man of Color is the first in that series: 1830s New Orleans, very focused on the slave/free colored (the term at the time) community, murder mystery. I keep hesitating to recommend the series outright because it is 19 books long and, at this point, full of my blorbos, so I'm not sure I'm totally objective about it. However! One Extra Corpse is the second in a new historical murder mystery series by the same author, this one set in inter-war Hollywood but with a transplanted English protagonist. Reading this one, full of likeable characters but not the ones I feel unreasonably affectionate about, I realized: actually, I do think that Hambly's attention to historical detail, flawed but human characters, sense of humor, detail-driven mystery plots, etc., make for good books. So I do recommend either of these mystery series to anyone who likes that kind of thing! They are not flawless, but they are lots of fun.

[silverfeatheredserpent]

dangerous Bartimaeus

[jacomitabarthalock]

I hate backgrounds. If anyone wants to do a collab of some sort to relieve me of this task I would love you xD