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A (very strange but lovely) fantasy for book lovers.

Among Others by Jo Walton

May 16, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 3/30 “I didn’t ask to have my good leg replaced by a creaky rusty weathervane, but then I suppose nobody does. I would have made much greater sacrifices. I was prepared to die, and Mor *did* die. I should think of it as a war-wound, an old soldier’s scars. Frodo lost a finger, and all his own possibility of happiness. Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, among others, Books about books, british fantasy, historical fantasy, jo walton, narfna, wales

narfna's CBR14 Review No:71 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, among others, Books about books, british fantasy, historical fantasy, jo walton, narfna, wales ·
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#Red: An Austenian take on the societal and legal niceties of consuming your own kin (plus dragons)

Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton

July 26, 2020 by Aquillia Leave a Comment

Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton has been described as “Pride and Prejudice, but dragons”. There is no more apt description than this, though I also see a lot of Dickensian influence. Additionally, the primary romance is not as antagonistic as Elizabeth and Darcy are initially. I’m counting this as my bingo square for Red because the cover is, in fact, very red and because the colour actually plays a role in the book. The plot centers around a family of dragon gentility after the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: bingo square red, cbr12bingo, dragons, jo walton, Red, Tooth and Claw

Aquillia's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: bingo square red, cbr12bingo, dragons, jo walton, Red, Tooth and Claw ·
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The Phurnicite factory in Abercwmboi killed all the trees for two miles around.

Among Others by Jo Walton

May 4, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a really wonderful novel. It’s kind of weird mix of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend, Matilda by Roald Dahl, and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. This weird combination is never all of one plus, but a blending of elements of each. Morwenna is 14 and has either just survived a horrendous car crash that killed her mother and sister, or conversely, she and her sister worked together using their shared magic to stop their mother from taking over the world of men via the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: among others, jo walton

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:243 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: among others, jo walton ·
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They hang people for murder, and while I didn’t exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all.

Farthing by Jo Walton

July 16, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Maybe it’s just me, but I really didn’t like this book. It’s not unpleasant or anything. That’s not the issue here. It just feels false. So the book takes place in an alternative history Unite Kingdom in 1949. Rather than “what if Nazis” won the war, though it seems like maybe they kind of did, the novel wonders, what would happen in appeasement were taken to its logical conclusion and a binding peace accord were struck with Germany in 1939/1940 after Dunkirk? Ostensibly, I am […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Farthing, jo walton

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:412 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Farthing, jo walton ·
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The one and only time it might be ok to use first person present tense narration

Lent by Jo Walton

June 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I was hesitant to pick this up because it’s written in first person, present tense; I’m not much of a fan of either of those. It didn’t surprise me that I was having a hard time getting into the story. I don’t know what happened, but when I picked it up again the next day, I couldn’t put it down. Jo Walton might be a bit of a miracle worker for that. Lent is basically a fictionalized version of 1492-1498 Florence, Italy. The city was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, History, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, Girolamo Savanarola, jo walton, Lent, Medici, Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance Italy, Speculative Fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, History, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, Girolamo Savanarola, jo walton, Lent, Medici, Pico della Mirandola, Renaissance Italy, Speculative Fiction ·
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There’s no impersonality here.

What Makes This Book so Good? by Jo Walton

April 30, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a collected and bound version of a blog that Jo Walton wrote for Tor.com from about 2008-2010 (give or take). The focus of the blog was to reread various books from “Classic” sci fi to more contemporary sci fi and assess and reassess them. It probably worked fine as a blog, but as a book it’s quite limited. In part it’s limited by its relatively repetitive pattern of summary, explanation, assessment, and restart of most of the reviews. It’s also limited by the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: jo walton, what makes this book so good

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:218 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: jo walton, what makes this book so good ·
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