A brightness long ago by Guy Gavriel Kay
It has been over ten years since I’ve read a Kay book! Or at least the last post on the blog...
6 September 2019
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.
Children of blood and bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Legacy of Orïsha #1 I added this book to Mount TBR back in 2018, but it took it being nominated for...
13 August 2019
The calculating stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Lady Astronaut ; 1 I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about Mary Robinette Kowal, but the only thing by...
31 July 2019
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
It has been years since I’ve read a book by Novik. I read her Temeraire way back in 2006, and was...
14 July 2019
Ghost wall by Sarah Moss
I first saw mention of this book on Tor.com which described it as a book that leads us onto the muddy,...
4 July 2019
The girl with the dragon heart by Stephanie Burgis
Tales from the Chocolate Heart ; 2 I’ve been meaning to read this book ever since I heard it was coming...
29 June 2019
Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Orpen is travelling alone across Ireland. She’s left the only home she ever knew and is looking for something. She’s left...
10 April 2019
The ruin of kings by Jenn Lyons
A Chorus of Dragons ; book 1 Tor, who publish this book, have been pimping it big-style for quite a while....
24 March 2019
Goddess by Kelly Gardiner
I came across a mention of Julie d’Aubugny when Oisin McGann retweeted a Quite Interesting fact about her Has anyone written...
23 February 2019
The poison belt by Arthur Conan Doyle
Last year I read the first book in the Professor Challenger stories, The Lost World, where the land of the dinosaurs...
25 January 2019
So lucky by Nicola Griffith
Handheld Modern ; 2 I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve read by Griffith, and she has written in a wide variety of...
20 January 2019
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
My book club chose this for the January meeting, and although I hadn’t even started it when the book club met...
13 January 2019
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