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A Mouthful of Dust: The Value of a Low-Stakes Read

A Mouthful of Dust: The Singing Hills Cycle #6 by Nghi Vo

January 4, 2026 by beereadsbooks 1 Comment

I have been reading through the Singing Hills Cycle series since 2022. They have served as bite-sized treats and motivation to return to reading usually during a lull. Given the time between reading each book, I would struggle to tell you what’s happened in previous stories at this point. I think I keep returning to the series because of Chih and Almost Brilliant. They are a lovely pair of characters to accompany from story to story. A Mouthful of Dust is the sixth installment of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: famine, Nghi Vo, novella, Spirits

beereadsbooks's CBR18 Review No:2 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: famine, Nghi Vo, novella, Spirits ·
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Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

December 7, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion Tagged With: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:39 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Religion · Tags: #Gaiman, adam young, anathema device, angels, anges nutter, anti-christ, antichrist, apocalypse, aziraphale, cbr9, crawly, crowley, Death, demons, earth, end of days, famine, fantasy, Fiction, four horsemen, Heaven, hell, horsemen of the apocalypse, Neil Gaiman, newton pulsifer, nutter, pollution, pratchett, prophecies, Religion, Terry Pratchett, Urban Fantasy, war, witch, witches, witchfinder army ·
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