Barbarius commented on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin's timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea reimagined for the first …
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Barbarius finished reading The Space Cat by Nnedi Okorafor
Life for a cat doesn’t get much better than Periwinkle’s. By day, his loving humans …
Barbarius reviewed The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo
Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party. Everyone knew somebody on the …
Wonderful
5 stars
The Invisible Parade is a truly beautiful picture book about Día de Muertos and a little girl grieving her recently passed grandfather. The artwork is phenomenally beautiful and touching, and the story provides a message of hope and humanity.
Barbarius finished reading The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo
Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party. Everyone knew somebody on the …
Oh wow... That was very good. And now I'm emotional.
Oh wow... That was very good. And now I'm emotional.
Barbarius started reading The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo
Everyone in the neighborhood was getting ready for the party. Everyone knew somebody on the …
Barbarius reviewed Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson (Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1)
Without the island paradise, without the sisterhood that shaped her, without a mission of peace…she’s …
Wonder Woman meet Hellboy
5 stars
What if Wonder Woman was raised in hell by a witch? That's the premise here, and it doesn't disappoint. There's still all the regular Greek god stuff going on, but it's all been covered with a veneer of darkness, without minimising on the (capital-H) Hope Wonder Woman so naturally brings as a part of her character. A great, gritty re-imagining!
What if Wonder Woman was raised in hell by a witch? That's the premise here, and it doesn't disappoint. There's still all the regular Greek god stuff going on, but it's all been covered with a veneer of darkness, without minimising on the (capital-H) Hope Wonder Woman so naturally brings as a part of her character. A great, gritty re-imagining!
Barbarius finished reading Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson (Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1)
Without the island paradise, without the sisterhood that shaped her, without a mission of peace…she’s …
Oh yeah, that was sick.
Barbarius started reading Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson (Absolute Wonder Woman, Vol. 1)
Without the island paradise, without the sisterhood that shaped her, without a mission of peace…she’s …
I'm participating in the voting for the Hugo Awards this year, and the voter pack was released the other day! So I'm going to try and tear though as much excellent scifi and fantasy as I can in the next two months! #Hugo2026Finalist
I'm participating in the voting for the Hugo Awards this year, and the voter pack was released the other day! So I'm going to try and tear though as much excellent scifi and fantasy as I can in the next two months! #Hugo2026Finalist
Barbarius rated The Sunbird: 5 stars
The Sunbird by Sara Haddad, Baraa Awoor
Adapted for young readers from her critically acclaimed adult novel, Sara Haddad's middle-grade story about a child's experience of the …
Barbarius finished reading The Sunbird by Sara Haddad
Adapted for young readers from her critically acclaimed adult novel, Sara Haddad's middle-grade story about …
I stopped reading this at bedtime, as I felt like my kids might still have been on the young side (and, TBH, there's enough exposure in daily news already to the horrors of how some humans treat others). But this is truly excellent; a great reimagining of the original.
I stopped reading this at bedtime, as I felt like my kids might still have been on the young side (and, TBH, there's enough exposure in daily news already to the horrors of how some humans treat others). But this is truly excellent; a great reimagining of the original.
The soft crash of waves that blissfully block out all other noise, the smell of …
Just rediscovered this on my desk. It was a gift from a friend that I had, truth be told, forgotten about entirely. Turns out procrastinating can really pay off!
Just rediscovered this on my desk. It was a gift from a friend that I had, truth be told, forgotten about entirely. Turns out procrastinating can really pay off!
Barbarius rated Magnum Contact Sheets: 5 stars
Magnum Contact Sheets by Kristen Lubben
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact sheets created by Magnum photographers. …
Barbarius finished reading Magnum Contact Sheets by Kristen Lubben
This special and important photography book presents, for the first time, the very best contact …
Well, that took me a long time, but it was thoroughly enjoyable to go back to every so often over two years.
Barbarius rated Technofeudalism: 4 stars
Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism is dead and a new …
Barbarius rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 4 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …