{"id":3519,"date":"2015-09-04T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2015-09-03T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T05:46:45","slug":"mark-finishes-the-circle-opens-comment-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2015\/09\/mark-finishes-the-circle-opens-comment-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Finishes &#8216;The Circle Opens&#8217;: Comment Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have no clue what the final three books in the Emelan universe are, nor what sort of story we might be getting, it seemed silly to have a prediction post. I would instead like to take a moment to use the comments to reflect back on what a monumental experience this has been and to do so with all of you!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are treating this much like any Q&amp;A \/ comment party after I finish a series, but feel free to expand it to the entire\u00c2\u00a0Emelan series I&#8217;ve read thus far. We can laugh at my predictions, or you can ask pointed questions that will make my brain hurt. I just wanted to make sure I got a chance to look at the quartet as a whole before I moved on to the final Tamora Pierce books for Mark Reads.<\/p>\n<p>:: sobs ::<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be around sporadically throughout the day, as I just got back Tuesday night from a trip to NYC. I&#8217;m working on next week&#8217;s Mark Reads posts today, which means I may visit occasionally just to keysmash about\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Will of the Empress<\/em>. WHO KNOWS. In the meantime? ASK AWAY, MY FRIENDS.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/markdoesstuff?ty=h\" target=\"_blank\">I am now on Patreon<\/a><\/b>!!! <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2015\/05\/updates-european-tour-patreon-h-a-l-p\/\" target=\"_blank\">MANY SURPRISES ARE IN STORE FOR YOU IF YOU SUPPORT ME<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Mark Does Stuff Tour 2015 is now live and includes dates across the U.S. this summer and fall <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/tour-dates-appearances\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check the full list of events on my Tour Dates \/ Appearances page.<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=815s3sbr8clhdi9tn8k7r3tim4%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=America\/Los_Angeles\">Master Schedule<\/a> is updated for the near and distant future for most projects, so please check it often.\u00c2\u00a0<b>My next Double Features for Mark Watches will be the remainder of\u00c2\u00a0<i>The Legend of Korra<\/i>, series 8 of\u00c2\u00a0<i>Doctor Who<\/i>, and <i>Kings<\/i>. On Mark Reads, Diane Duane&#8217;s <i>Young Wizards<\/i> series will replace the Emelan books.<br \/>\n<\/b>-\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/markdoesstuff\">Mark Does Stuff is on Facebook!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ve got a community page up that I&#8217;m running. Guaranteed shenanigans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have no clue what the final three books in the Emelan universe are, nor what sort of story we might be getting, it seemed silly to have a prediction post. I would instead like to take a moment &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2015\/09\/mark-finishes-the-circle-opens-comment-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,490],"tags":[482,237,250],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emelan","category-the-circle-opens","tag-mark-reads-emelan","tag-qa","tag-tamora-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->