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My monthly favs:

Swordheart

I loved this book. I pretty much read it in one sitting, with occasional breaks for a cup of tea ...

Us against you

originally published as Vi mot er; translated by Neil Smith Beartown ; book 2 It has been a while since ...
a figure in a spacesuit tumbles through the docking bay of a space station with a spacecraft behind

Exit strategy

Murderbot diaries ; 4 I love these books. They just feel so warm and comforting, like a hug, despite the ...

22 July [based on the book One of Us]

This is a tough film to watch. As it should be; dealing with mass murder and terrorism as it does ...

Beast

If you are anything like me, you hear a film called Beast and think of Beauty and the Beast. And ...

The broken kingdoms

The Inheritance trilogy ; 2 I pretty much devoured this book. I just couldn't stop reading once I started; it ...

Sun, Moon, Dust

First published by Uncanny A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in May 2017. Okay, this is wonderful. There is ...
a serpent or dragon on a map

The language of power

The Steerswoman series ; 4 If you haven't read the previous books in the series then this is not the ...

Hereditary

The best way to see this film is to know nothing in advance. So if you haven't seen it stop ...
A drawing of a young girl wearing a headscarf, close up on her face

The Breadwinner [based on the book]

Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban The Breadwinner is the story of a family trapped by the ...

Artificial condition

The Murderbot Diaries ; 2 The whole time I was reading this book1 I kept telling myself to ...

Avengers : Infinity War

Given the box office takings I'm guessing you've already seen this film. I mean, hasn't everyone? But nevertheless there shall ...

The cat who walked a thousand miles

Read it online at Tor. reread in April, 2018 and loved it just as much. A long time ago in ...

Annihilation [based on the book]

I'm not quite sure how to start talking about Annihilation. I really liked it. But plot-wise anything I say to ...

Mayhem

Added to Mount TBR in March 2018 - I came across this book as it was longlisted for the 2018 ...

Black Panther

This film is so awesome. I loved it. I mean, I'd heard good things before I went, although I did ...

The unwomanly face of war

translated into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky When I saw this mentioned in some magazine or other I ...

Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Ever since I first heard about this film I was hoping it would come to my local cinema. Frances McDormand ...

Clockwork Boys

The Clocktaur War ; book 1 Any book by Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfihser) is one that I want to ...

  1. novella, whatever