What Doctor Gottlieb saw by Ian Tregillis
the Little Red Reviewer posted her review of Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis today and in it mentioned this short story set in the same Milkweed universe. It is available to...
24 August 2013
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Thanks to Andi’s review of The Song of Achilles I learned that Miller had a new short story out. So off I popped to by it. Based on the Greek myth...
23 August 2013
The conjuring dir. by James Wan
Based on the true story. Or so they say. In the 1970s Roger and Carolyn Perron move into a new home with their five daughters. It’s a little run down, needs...
7 August 2013
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Siss is on her way through the dark evening to meet Unn. They have been going to school together ever since Unn came to live with her Auntie, but this is...
2 August 2013
The dragon’s path by Daniel Abraham
Book one of The Dagger and the Coin Read because of Carl’s Group Read The prologue of The dragon’s path hints at an ancient evil, at the end of the world,...
1 August 2013
The Ballad of the Wayfaring Stranger and the Dead Man’s Whore by Sean Demory
via Metafilter Inspired by classic American murder ballads and folk songs such as In the pines and Knoxville Girl this tells the story of a girl, taken by a haint. There...
13 July 2013
A country doctor by Franz Kafka
Translated by Ian Johnston ; read Online at Franz Kafka online A doctor is needed, but he has no transport. It is winter, he has no horse to harness to his...
7 July 2013
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre’s parents die when she is an infant, and she is taken in by her uncle. Her uncle also dies, after obtaining a promise from his wife that she will...
24 June 2013
Warhorse by Timothy Zahn
For years humans had thought themselves alone in space. But then the Tampies made themselves known. And they, unlike humanity, had the ability to jump through space. Where humans were trapped...
16 May 2013
After tomorrow by Gillian Cross
In the near future the economy has collapsed. Money is pretty much useless. Matt and his family have been lucky, they can grow some food and have been sensible, trading and...
8 May 2013
The crane wife by Patrick Ness
Part of my Once Upon a Time reading. George is an American ex-pat living in England. He has been there for so long that, and is so unlike the stereotypical “loud...
27 April 2013
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Book one of The Crescent Moon Kingdoms In the city of Dhamsawaat Doctor Abdullah Makhslood is the last real ghul hunter left. He and his assistant Raseed have destroyed many ghuls...
15 April 2013
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