writer. remarkably lifelike. incredibly slow reader.
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A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a …
A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent …
I love me some 19th century gothic horror, but OMG the half-page Jamesian sentences that take two turns around the lake before wandering off somewhere into the woods take a lot of getting used to.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking is a 2012 non-fiction book written by Susan …
Awakening from a dream with more than one hundred predictions about the future in his head, an unassuming Manhattan bassist …
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired …
Hugely ambitious epic fantasy set in an alt-universe China. Starts out light and familiar for fantasy (smart plucky girl goes to magic school) but then makes a abrupt left turn into a war novel that is unrelentingly violent and grim. Uneven pacing, thin supporting cast, protagonist makes baffling decisions, and very hard to read in the last third. I was impressed with the ambition but conflicted about the craft. The author is very young and this is her first novel. I'll give #2 a chance.
Victor breaks out of prison with the help of a young girl with great abilities …
I'm still kind of puzzled that I really didn't like this book given how much I loved the Shades of Magic trilogy. Young people with newly acquired superpowers feels like well-trodden ground at this point, but I gave an extra star for the mixed-up timeline plot structure, which was well done, and the gleeful portrayal of the detestable main characters.
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at …
I have a lot of conflict over this book because I love Donna Tart's writing style, and it is wonderfully written. It is a book that I admire a lot for the craft of writing but I just didn't really like it all that much. Unlike many reviewers I didn't have a lot of issues with the main characters being so dislikable, although that they are excessively drunk or casually rich or both made them very difficult to like. For me it was more that the characters were dislikable in similar ways so I had trouble telling them apart, and the various choices those characters made over the course of the book often seemed forced and strange. I adored the Goldfinch but this book came up flat for me.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Civil War era America derailing …
Space Opera is a 2018 science fiction novel by Catherynne Valente, about a galactic version …
The first chapter of this book is perfect. Absolutely perfect. I finished the first chapter and then I went back to page 1 and read it again. The rest of the book is...not as perfect, but it is still a huge amount of fun. It is SPARKLY AND CHEERFUL, and I would like more of that please.
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first …
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which …
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage …
I loved Parable of the Sower, as grim as it was, and found Butler's prediction of a society in the middle of collapsing very disturbing. "Talents" has some very interesting time and point of view shifts, but is not as compelling as "Sower." It is more uneven: still very grim, much more violent, and ..kind of dull?
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …
Erika Kotite: She sheds (2017)
"She Sheds provides inspiration, tips, and tricks to help create the hideaway of your dreams"--
Boy do I hate the term "she shed" but there are lot of great fantasy-garden photos here.
