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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
What a viciously imaginative read!
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San …
This book is absolutely astonishing.
FAR BENEATH the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of …
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San …
In the 12th-century Benedictine monastery of Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has settled down to a quiet …
Decided to re-read this one on a whim and there was so much I didn't remember. Just a really, all-around fun novel. It's particularly interesting to see this more lavish version of Peters' prose, which she refines but also streamlines through the later books in the series. Here, she's willing to make more comical asides and revel in setting the scene a little more.
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …
I picked this up at the recommendation of another Bookwyrm user just a few days ago and tore through it in just two sittings. I very much enjoyed Clarke's first novel, but its difficult language and enormous size made it difficult to grasp the whole story. Piranesi is fast, almost breezy, but still has Clarke's incredible world building. The House—an infinite collection of halls and vestibules populated with unending statues, with a sea sloshing around the lower floor and clouds filling the upper—is an incredibly potent concept, and one I know will stick with me. If you love Borges, you'll love this book.
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon …
The Confession of Brother Haluin is a medieval mystery novel set in the winter of 1142–1143 by Ellis Peters. It …
The Confession of Brother Haluin is a medieval mystery novel set in the winter of …
This is one of my favorite Cadfael books I've read so far. Unlike Summer of the Danes, the journey of Haluin and Cadfael is much more meaningful and interesting, propelling the plot as they go. Like a fable, Cadfael and Haluin blunder into what feels like another world, and discover secrets, mystery, and the miraculous. It's a keeper.
It's always good to reread the Táin.
I read The Táin for the first time as an undergrad and it was a revelatory experience. After 15 years, it is more than I remembered: bawdy, violent, bizarre, and hilarious in its extremes.
