But like a rat or an icy wind, love creeps in. Well, I’m starting off my first Cannonball Read a little behind, but this was a great book to start with. Very surreal and oddly moving, Little Nothing will stick with me for a long time. While a lot of fantasy fiction gets caught up in sentiment (Not a slam. I read a lot of fantasy.), Little Nothing goes for something a little more raw and realistic. Set in a vaguely 19th century unnamed Eastern […]
Little Too Many Ideas
I took a stab at something newly published and completely outside of my comfort zone. In all honesty, it wasn’t a total wash; “Little Nothing” comes in at a solid 3. Pavla is born a dwarf to agrarian parents living somewhere in Eastern Europe right before the outbreak of World War I. The industrial age is just beginning to dawn on her small farming community, and there and many of the villages surrounding her town still conduct daily activity with a fairly Medieval mindset, meaning […]