The First Person Narrator…
I used to hate books that were all I I I. Many seemed to be an excuse for lazy writing to me. And some still are, but I no longer turn away the second I see that the story is being told by an “I”, because they can be quite wonderful, in a good author’s hands.
9 June 2013
Call no: 800
Genre: contemporary fiction, romance
Setting: 1700s, France, USA - New Orleans
6 Stars
7 Comments
Read online – Gutenberg This is a book I would never have picked up if not for the fact that it is on the reading list of an online course I’ve just started. It is the story of the Chevalier … Continue reading
8 May 2013
Call no: 800
Genre: economic fiction, Juv/YA
Setting: France, the future
8 Stars
9 Comments
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 bartering for what they need. But now the raids … Continue reading
7 April 2013
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: Goredd
8 Stars
2 Comments
Seraphina has lived her life hiding the truth about who she is; a half-dragon. Her mother died in childbirth, and until that moment her father never knew that the woman he loved was a dragon in human form. Interbreeding is … Continue reading
6 November 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: historical fiction, horror
Setting: 1880s, Britain - Victorian, London
8 Stars
4 Comments
The last of my RIP reads, and my All Hallows Swap book. What if Van Helsing had lost? What if Dracula had won that battle, married Queen Victoria, and taken power? What would Victorian England make of vampires coming out … Continue reading
22 October 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: horror, short story
7 Stars
2 Comments
One of my RIP reads Short story published in Apex Magazine Issue 41 Zombies are everywhere lately. This short story does something a little different with the idea though, it tells the story from the point of view of the … Continue reading
One of my RIP reads For years now Jackson Oz has been tracking animal attacks on people. It started out as a joke, but as the data kept coming in he began to think it was more than that. He … Continue reading
Read for this year’s RIP event. Part of The Estella Society’s readalong, although a much delayed addition. The story opens with a happy scene at Hundreds Hall, our narrator is remembering how grand the house was. How impressive it was … Continue reading
Read for the Coursera online course, Carl’s 2012 Science Fiction Experience, the Not Just for Stormtroopers Sci-Fi challenge, & the Gender in Fantasy & Sci-Fi 2012 Genly Ai has been on Gethen for two years. He is the First Mobile, … Continue reading
Read it online Imagine a world without men. A world where women are able to reproduce without men, where the only children born are female, and where motherhood is all important. Now imagine that you are a young man in … Continue reading
1 September 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: horror, sff
Setting: 1890s, C19th, England, spring, village
7 Stars
13 Comments
Another coursera course book, and another that fits with my reading for this years RIP project & for the 2012 Sci-Fi Challenge. One wintry day in a small, quiet English village, a stranger appears. He takes a room at the … Continue reading
