Thank you so much to Junior Cannonballer Bibliophile (according to faintingviolet, she will be joining us next year) for these two Kate Daniels books. They will very much help me in my 2022 project to read All the Kate Daniels. Very timely gift, and much appreciated!
Thanksgiving Week Glut
The Odyssey by Homer; Emily Wilson
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny
To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
Free Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed
Dragons of Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood
Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Books of Blood by Clive Barker
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
The Odyssey – 5/5 Stars So my review is specific to the newer Emily Wilson translation, which I find particularly good and readable. She writes a long introduction that serves as a solid guide to the epic, to the writing, the historical context, and other important keys. This is long, but worthwhile, especially if you’re new to the story or it’s been a long time or you’re a little rough in your epic-reading. From there, there’s a very good translator’s note of some length explaining […]
with this post, you will know every book i read this year and how i felt about them
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Ten Dead Comedians by Fred Van Lente
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
N or M? by Agatha Christie
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
You’ve probably heard of this one already. Woman takes the regional train to and from work every day and watches for a couple who live on a house backing the tracks. She likes to make up stories about what they’re doing every day. One day she sees the wife kissing a man who’s not her husband. Because her previous marriage ended due to infidelity, the main character goes to confront the wife, whom she does not know, but her alcoholism intervenes and she blacks out […]
“The Resistance was the kiss of death, to friends and allies alike.”
Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
The reading experience of Resistance Reborn is a story of two halves for me. I enjoyed Rebecca Roanhorse’s writing, I find the way she uses a sparring amount of words to build a mood, and from a mood a setting to be incredibly effective, which I’ve enjoyed from her before. On the other hand, though, I wasn’t floored by the actual story covered within the pages of this book. Broadly, in this novel, Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn struggle to rebuild the […]
You’ll be smarter than a cookie
The Smart Cookie (Food Group) by Jory John
The Smart Cookie (Food Group) by Jory John is not my favorite of the Food Books they and Pete Oswald created. With that said, there is nothing wrong with this picture book, I just feel that like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series, we have gone to the bakery one too many times. Yet, the story of being yourself, and finding your own way of being creative or clever, is nicely illustrated by Oswald’s fun, silly, colorful, detailed illustrations. The cover tells you […]
Find your way to this book come April 2022
Mapmakers and the Lost Magic (A Graphic Novel) by Cameron Chittock
Mapmakers and the Lost Magic (A Graphic Novel) is an odd little story. At first it seemed like Cameron Chittock was creating it to be straightforward: Alidade, a young girl of the village, wants to leave. You assume that she will learn “there is no place like home” but it quickly takes a turn for the slightly darker. There are the guards that stop anyone from leaving the village, they curb individuality, and are controlled by a woman who (due to illustrations placing her in […]
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