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A must-read for Maid completists who've read the first two books but I'm not sure if recommend it on its own merits. Sweet and romantic, though, if you don't mind a conclusion obvious from close to the beginning.
Very short but lovely Christmas story set in the alternate universe of Jonathan Strange about a saint of sorts, perhaps a yurodivy, with beautiful illustrations and a long afterward about the origin of the work. The covers of the book are gorgeous, too.
I am your maid. I know about your secrets. Your dirty laundry. But what do you know about me?
Molly …
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to …
Fun sequel! I look forward to future volumes in the series.
Good, but a little too much like his first series while not being as enjoyable. The formula is getting threadbare at this point and it felt like he took his earlier scheme and plugged in new characters.
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
Fun sweet lesbian romance space mystery!
Extremely readable account of the important role played by humanities scholars in World War II.
I read this aloud to my wife and we both enjoyed it, although it wasn't a "grab everyone I see and press it on them" book for me.
Amazing, gorgeous book with a story that reminded me of Jane Yolen's fables in The Hundredth Dove.
I read this aloud to my wife and we were both fascinated. I read to myself The Ends of the World by Brannen a few years ago on all the mass extinctions but it was interesting to read the details about the K-Pg one, with chapters on the impact, the first day, first month, first year and other periods of lapsed time. It's written in a journalistic style - approximate since the author is a journalist - which makes it an easy read, but she has a chapter at the end explaining some of scientific findings on which she based and the sources of her more speculative reconstructions.
One of the better books I've read on the subject, with some thoughtful insights I haven't seen elsewhere, including intellectual connections between the religious right and creationism.
Grossman is not T. H. White but this is a fun, long, work of Arthuriana.
Messily organized and remarkably repetitive, with quotes repeated multiple times, there are still a lot of interesting anecdotes and accounts here.
Engrossing and beautifully written.
