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I only track books that I read for pleasure, mostly SF/Fantasy. I've fallen out of the habit of actually writing reviews beyond giving a star rating. It would be nice to get back into that habit.
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"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing …
I was hoping for more buildings roamin’ and less Bildungsroman.
When anything can be owned, how can we be free
Earth, 2144. Jack is an …
Great. Multiple interesting POV characters. Plausible extrapolation of current trends, but the timeline seems too far in the future. I hope things will be more different by the 2140s.
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and …
In this sequel to the novella Penric's Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide …
Young Sybel, the heiress of powerful wizards, needs the company of no-one outside her gates. In her exquisite stone mansion, …
Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the …
"Smart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie Penny's celebrated essays establishes her …
Lots of good points. Hard to read as a book. I think it would have worked better for me if I'd read it as the original blog posts, articles, etc. I may have to try interleaving sections of collections like this with other things, so each short essay has time to marinate before the next topic switch.
The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully …
Early works. Entertaining, but not up to her later standard.
"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
The Scarlet Pimpernel (2005)
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness …
It struck me as I finished that this book would be the opening chapter of a modern thriller. We expect so much more action packed into our fiction these days!
The serial-style writing, where each chapter reminded you of what had come before made it a good book to read as I was going to sleep. Missed a detail? No worries.
