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Action, Adventure, Witcher-ing

Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski

Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Tower of the Swallows by Andrzej Sapkowski

The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski

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I started on the Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski a while ago, after hearing that it was going to be adapted into a Netflix series. After watching (and enjoying!) the first season, I thought I would get around to finishing the series eventually, but it took watching (and enjoying!) the second season before I really got my act together to work my way through the rest of the books.  Overall, I enjoyed each of these books. I thought that the balance of humor and action […]

Strange but Not Fun

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh

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I think Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh must have originally come into my orbit off of a Goodreads recommendation list. The striking image of a dead lamb on the cover caught my eye, and buzzwords like “macabre” and “grotesque” pulled me in. The publisher’s description seemed like it would be up my alley as well – I’m generally a fan of books that explore religion, faith, and climate catastrophe.  The plot follows a year in the fictional medieval village of Lapvona, in particular following Marek, the […]

“Tragedy was undiscerning and totally unfair.”

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

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I read Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka months (months!) ago and absolutely loved it, to the point that I felt too overwhelmed to write a review for it at the time. So, I’ve now sabotaged myself because I don’t remember the book as well as I would like to, so I will likely be unable to do justice to this book that I found incredibly smart and moving. Notes on an Execution tells the story of a serial killer largely through the eyes […]

Revisiting a Classic and (Surpise!) Enjoying It

Dune by Frank Herbert

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I re-read Dune by Frank Herbert this year because a member of my work book club selected it. The rules of work book club are: we pick a book that has a movie or television adaptation, so that we can still hang out and gossip with the folks in the book club who inevitably don’t read the book. Those of us who do always read the book get to discuss what we liked or didn’t like about the adaptation. We rotate between who chooses the […]

Feral and Ferocious: Two Plays About Girls

The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

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The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe In the not-so-distant past, I performed frequently in small professional theatre productions. I’m a slightly-less-than 5’ tall woman, so I was often cast as teen and early-twenties characters, and I always had an eye out for plays that I could potentially pull monologues from for auditions. When The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, a play about a high school girls’ indoor soccer team, started making waves and eventually was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer, it seemed like it could be […]

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death f*cks us all.”

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

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Apparently 2022 is the year I decided to become a Leigh Bardugo fangirl. So far I’ve read the Shadow and Bone trilogy as well as the Six of Crows duology from her Grishaverse, and now without even planning it I’ve read another Bardugo novel. I have literally no idea why or when I added this to my library  queue, other than that I first put it on hold before reading any of her other books, and I was probably half way through it before I […]



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