Thank you Llamareadsbooks for the great gift. I am all set for the holiday break.
Thank you Bonnie!
Super excited to read This is How You Lose the Time War and A Marvellous Light based on the reviews I’ve read here! Thank you for the books and for supporting my local indie bookstore!
Unique and memorable
The Unseen World by Liz Moore
I forget if it was me or my husband who first read Long Bright River by Liz Moore, but I do remember that I saw it on Barack Obama’s recommended reading from 2020. I was very impressed by Long Bright River, so when my husband encouraged me to read The Unseen World (2016) by Moore, I eventually got around to it. I found The Unseen World to be interesting and well written. I was surprised by how different it was from Long Bright River, but the characters and setting still felt very real. […]
“You’ll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.”
Saga: Volume Four by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)
Saga: Volume Five by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)
Saga: Volume Six by Brian K. Vaughan (writer), Fiona Staples (artist)
The Saga re-read continues. I’m still in love with this series. It’s rare to have humor, sorrow, wit, action, adventure, and beautiful drawings married in one text, but this is that text. Volume Four would be my sole four star rated volume, but I am refusing to grade these against themselves, they are collectively some of the best storytelling I have read and will all be given five stars, regardless of swings in execution from volume to volume. That said, while I’m sure that the plot […]
Et al
To Hold up the Sky by Cixin Liu
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry
Dance to the Music of Time: The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell
Dance to the Music of Time: The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell
Dance to the Music of Time: The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
To Hold up the Sky – 3/5 I really like the Cixin Liu novels I’ve read, and have felt that the short story collections are a mixed bag. The issue tends to be a lack of closing confidence. There’s also some cool premises, and some interesting premises explored in strange ways. The opening story “The Village Teacher” splits the narrative between a simple country teacher and an intergalactic war, and the way in which these get resolved is really interesting. Another story takes a huge […]
Theme of the day: Crazy and pets.
Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty
Latke, the Lucky Dog by Ellen Fischer
Bathe the Cat is a love it or not book. And it all depends on what you think of insanity and a very naughty cat. One of the dads of the story wants everyone to clean up as Grandma is coming soon. But even though he has a very put together list of chores posted, the cat (who is on the list as the recipient of a bath) decides to mix things up and mayhem ensues to the point of sweeping the fish, mopping the […]