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It Gives Ocean’s Eleven a Run For Its Money

Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett

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Yeah, Robert Jackson Bennett is back! I originally had a delayed love his previous trilogy, The Divine Cities; but a re-read of the first book ended up setting me straight, and by the end, I was loving it. So the news that his latest book, Foundryside, is also the first of a trilogy piqued my interest. would there be a delayed response this time around? Or will it be a winner from the get-go? Part of the charm of The Divine Cities was the melding of divine magics […]

Belated, BELATED book exchange thank yous *ducks head*

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  Wow, did I ever drop the ball on time management over the Christmas break!   This is a belated and very big thank you for Rebecca for last years book exchange, who sent me a copy of Albert Camus’ The Outsider (Which I’m just starting), and a very sweet bilingual copy of The Little Prince.     The latter has given me ideas, honestly – perhaps I should look into bilingual books in Spanish as well?     As awkward as it is, I […]

There Will be a Reckoning.

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

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Everything of Ann Leckie’s that I have read previously – which is basically every novel she’s published – has been in one form or another, a kind of Space Opera. While Provenance may have had more of a political bent than the more military-minded Imperial Radch books, Ann Leckie has positively been cemented into my mind as very much an ’In Spaaace’ kind of author. Her first fantasy novel – The Raven Tower – has changed this. Leckie has delivered something that is very, very […]

Let’s Start of the Year With a Little Non-Fiction

A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation by Tim Hannigan

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  As an Australian, I have long lamented the fact that we see ourselves as on the periphery of South East Asia rather than an integral part of the region. And while we spend our time at school mostly learning about the history of the ‘Anglosphere’, we seem to have very little curiosity about our neighbours – and this is rather disappointing. After reading This Earth of Mankind late last year, I realised that there were considerable gaps in my own knowledge of Indonesia, who […]

The Series is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

The Descent of Monsters (The Tensorate Series) by JY Yang

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  Last year, I reviewed JY Yang´s twin novellas The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune and was quite charmed by them, with their clever worldbuilding and experimental narrative styles. Described as ´silkpunk´ by the author, the world of the Tensorate is an ingenious mix of politics and magic. With The Descent of Monsters, JY Yang continues to experiment by writing this third instalment in an epistolary fashion. This is their boldest choice by far, as the switch between letters, diaries […]



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