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Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang

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I like Ken Liu’s own writing, but I love his translations. So when Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang came out about a year ago, I bought it, read the translator’s notes immediately, read the notes to my politely smiling husband, then shelved the book for a later time. The time has come. My knowledge of China is piecemealy and Jumpnauts assumes that the reader has a better understanding of the country and its history than I do – which makes sense since the book and its […]

From the creator of Ranma…. It’s Inuyasha!

Inuyasha, vol 1-18 (vizbig) by Rumiko Takahashi

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20ish years ago, a cousin gave me the first volume of the Inuyasha manga because it was “just like” Ranma ½, which I loved. I found it was almost nothing like Ranma and the cousin admitted that even though the two series were both by Rumiko Takahashi, they didn’t actually have much in common (that I was interested in). No one would ever get hit on the head with a fowl training potty in Inuyasha. I’d never see a yeti riding a bull while holding […]

Not bad, not good

A court of thorns and roses by Sarah Maas

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The book challenge – read some romance. The other book challenge – read something banned. All I knew about A Court of Thorns and Roses is that it is a romance, highly banned, and book snobs hate it. Presumably because of TikTok and sexism. All that is good enough for me.   Feyre is basically a hunter Cinderella for her hilariously awful family. But then she accidentally kills a faerie and another faerie, Tamlin, takes her to the faerie land to be given kisses and […]

You are already dead – IYKYK and now I know

Fist of the North Star, vol. 1-14 by Buronson, Tetsuo Hara

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This is for vols 1-14, which is all my library has, although I did request vol. 15. My draw to the Fist of the North Star manga series was mostly that RGG/Sega made a video game of it and they made the Yakuza games. Written in the 80s and set in the Mad Max 1990s, the story is about Kenshiro wandering the post nuclear war wasteland pouting and blowing people up. Sometimes he has allies; always he has enemies; probably he has a plot. But […]

So good, so far

So Far So Good by Ursula K LeGuin

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I’ve never really gotten poetry or Ursula K LeGuin. I have nothing against either, they just weren’t for me… until So Far So Good, LeGuin’s last work. I knew signing up for a reading challenge would take me outside of my reading comfort zone, which is fine. Outside of my comfort zone is rarely uncomfortable (with reading). The worst is usually just uninteresting, the best is a bigger comfort zone. The challenge (storygraph’s 2025 genre challenge) was a nature poetry collection and I have enough […]

The Monk – it is what it is

The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Lewis

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The Monk: a Romance by Matthew Lewis has vaguely been on my radar for years. When my husband was recently in the ER, I got it from Project Gutenberg and started reading because waiting in the hospital is both boring and unnerving. And I had a charger. What I like about horror is that it lets me explore the fun creepy things that I know are not at all a danger to me. I enjoy vampires because they are not real. I am far enough […]



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