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My sister is going to get after me for getting more books. I can't help that someone GIFTED them to me! (Some days I wonder if she's the older sister or me, but she is the Mom of the group!)...

Last year I missed this entirely and this year I am ON IT. Made me realize how many books have ended up on my "find a second hand copy somewhere" list...

And everybody behind to say, for years now, that this version is 'deeper' and Sonja is not 'sexualised'. This is a textbook case where a writer has been allowed to steal a character (with good peace of the IP holder),...

Gail Simone has basically stolen Red Sonja's name to make her own character. The original Sonja was better. It is terrible that today a red Sonja book or comic is no longer about Red Sonja.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

I agree with you on the role of the fig tree ...I felt the metaphor at times is really stressed and too obvious

I'm sure someone has done a study of Asian countries/artists and their influences on the genre. I wish I could remember the graphic novel(s) I read that discussed Taiwanese, Chinese, and Korean works from around the same time. 

I Iived a life like Joan and Craig in a primarily WASP northern New Jersey town. Was a year older them and very-anti the VN war, protesting in NYC, wearing peace buttons to hs, writing an essay that WILPF awarded...

The 1970s are a really interesting time for manga and for Japan as a whole, before the bubble of the 1980s really got going, but full of creative ferment. I'm sure a lot of WW2 stuff was getting explored culturally...

I have read a lot of manga basically my whole life and I'm guessing I saw this at a bookstore or a comic book store -- I will just go through the whole section and I come across interesting stuff...

Ha I love this--I remember enjoying the book, especially because it's so vague and snappy instead of ponderous like her other book. But I like seeing opposing views, keeps me honest 🙂

how did you find this to begin with?

oh wow this is a strong recommendation, and I really like the thursday murder club books--will get this

I stopped reading these books after a while, but I do remember loving this little novella--just thinking about it makes me feel all Christmasy!

I have a hard time reading about this era of Japan. It was such a complicated time it seems (I'm assuming a lot of WW II issues are still being hashed out). But they are such important books for history...

As an adult fan of Bowie, I'm intrigued

I've been working on my perfectionism the past several years and this sounds like it could be helpful. Thanks for the review!

I also spent months in a staring contest with this book. If and when you read it, I hope you like it. I also just learned there's a sequel, which might have improved my feelings about the book.

Thank you! And now that you say it, I should have expected Ann Leckie recommending a book with some dense "show don't tell."

I just read the sequel, We Chase Shadows, which came out this fall. The sequel is even better, since he spends less time developing the characters' backgrounds than in the first book. Reading Osman to me is like listening to...

I spent most of this past year intending to read this. It's on my bookshelf staring at me. And it does sound interesting. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually.

Happy Cannonball! I’m not surprised that Ann Leckie is recommending a book that dumps you right into the action.

I know this is late. But I agree with so many points. I also didn't feel the love? It's the first book ever (for me) in which I was actively mad and not wanting the FMC to get with a...

And throwing in Grandma Mazur from the Stephanie Plum novels too? That's really tempting...

LOL! I appreciate your advice! I read the synopsis of the movie and was like "huh."

I've re-read Ella Enchanted a few times and adore it. I've only seen the movie once, when I had much stronger opinions about books made into movies, and I think waiting to have some distance from the book before seeing...

This sounds like a lot of fun! Thanks for the review.

I like this concept! Thanks for the review.

I'm not generally into shifter romances, but the title really is awesome.

That is definitely NOT what I am looking for in a romance.

Definitely skipping that one. Never read it.

It’s called Suicide Med. It’s bonkers.

Oh man. What was that? Did I read that and block it out? LOL

As a birder, there are some silly bird books that I really love: The Birding Dictionary by Rosemary MoscoBirding for Boomers And Everyone Else Brave Enough to Embrace the World's Most Rewarding and Frustrating Activity by Sneed B Collard.The Field...

I went through such a tear of McFadden books a few years ago. I pretty much gave her up when one book featured a vestigial sentient eye on someone’s butt.

I have one more ARC I need to finish before I start on this one. I don't think I love Barry's books as much as you do, but she's never written a book that disappointed me yet, either, so I'm...

When I read Une semaine de bonté, I learned about the bird character Loplop, Max Ernst's fursona. I don't think I mentioned Loplop in my review (which I used on a different prompt), but Ernst is someone I'm interested in...

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald The Good Lord Bird by James McBride At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright And though it's way too obvious, it's also one of the few books I've...

In addition to Alyssa Cole, mentioned above, Ally Carter has one that just came out, It’s Beginning to Look a lot Like Murder. I haven’t read it yet.

She has a new book coming out in February- It Takes a Village

This sounds delightful. I think I have found that I like romances better when something else is driving the story and the romance unfurls alongside other things. I didn't really know that thriller romances were a thing, so I'll have...

I like Emma Barry so will need to check this out! And the whole romance thriller comment made me realize I needed to check what Alyssa Cole has been up to lately.

Bird characters: Wild Robot by Peter Brown: has a significant character that's a goose The Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch by Laini Taylor - important crow characters Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg - nonfiction about a scientist and a...

I'd like to highly recommend a series that is new to me: Birder Murder Mysteries by Steve Burrows. Each book is a type of bird with their collective noun. The first is A Siege of Bitterns.

Would Catherine, Called Birdy by Cushman work? (The new cover)

Bird on the cover: The Correspondent This Kingdom Will not kill me (it’s a fantastical bird) Where sleeping girls lie The Raven Scholar The Bewitching (plus, seasonally appropriate- spooky) All books in the Licanius Trilogy Sunrise on the Reaping

I was also disappointed by the Sunbearer sequel. This was a better sequel.

This was a nice thing to see at the beginning of the work day. I would have loved to read Lear in college. Or anything that wasn't Othello.

This is encouraging- Aiden Thomas is an incredibly hit or miss author for me so was waiting for some reviews (didn’t like his Peter Pan, liked the first book of The Sunbearer duology but was so disappointed with the sequel)....

Threshing Day was so refreshing because it was just everyone else and their dragons. Even Xaden was good because we got the version that is tortured by a mission and responsibility rather than “will drop everything for Violet.” The first...