Reading used to be my go-to activity when I had nothing else to do. With social media, on-demand TV, and the internet it’s harder to have nothing to do. I fell out of the habit of reading. Last year I made an effort to get back into regular reading.
It’s been wonderful. Science fiction/fantasy is much richer than I remember …
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I got this little guy at the 2025 Pinoy Festival last month. It was going to be a gift. I clipped it to my key holder so it wouldn’t get lost and, well, I don’t want to give it away! Every time I see it I smile.
I thought I was going to get rained on, but I got lucky.
Set in London, it tells the tale of the twelve gods of Mount Olympus living in a rundown flat as their powers wane.
— Gods Behaving Badly, Wikipedia
Gods Behaving Badly was a tasty, fast snack. I read it in a single sitting and it hit the spot. No new story takes for me (though it might have had in …
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Composer Steven Lauddem is creatively blocked and unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. At the behest of his wife, Patricia, formerly his therapist, he sets out in search of inspiration and finds much more than he bargained for.
— She Came to Me Website
A romantic dramedy with messy characters. These people have troubles. At first …
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What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror, The Fall of the House of Usher. There’s an added character or two, an explanation for Roderick and Madeline’s demise, and a few genuinely creepy scenes involving hares and mushrooms.
The beginning was the fun, the middle a bit slow, …
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Nettle & Bone is a 2022 fantasy novel by Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher. The novel has been described as a dark fairy tale.
Wikipedia
Nettle & Bone was a delightful read. Though the material and themes are darkish to dark it has an underlying humour and optimism that I found greatly satisfying. If I tried to describe the …
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This February I took the plunge and bought an electric assist bicycle. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a few years, but wasn’t motivated enough to actually do.
Thanks to the coaching, cheerleading, and persuasion of two friends I finally did it. I made the purchase!
After 3 months of riding between rain showers I can emphatically say, I …
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Enola Holmes was a fun watch. I have my quibbles, but they are more than offset by the enjoyable bits.
Millie Bobby Brown plays Enola Holmes, the movie’s namesake. She’s the very younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes. The movie is based on the first book in The Enola Holmes Mysteries series by Nancy Springer.
When Enola’s mother …
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The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole is a year-in-the-life memoir documenting “a year of black resistance and power”. Which is to say, a year of bad to tragic things happening to people who deserve better, have tremendous resilience, and are working to make things better.
This book was a hard read. I had to put it down every couple …
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