So much happening in November I didn’t do a lot of reading. I did read a book by one of my favourite authors, though.
This book won’t be in my top 5 by Kingfisher — the plot had a change up that didn’t feel entirely organic — but it was still a fun …
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I’ve loved everything I’ve read in P. Djèlí Clark’s Dead Djinn Universe, and Ring Shout was a singular reading experience. Abeni’s Song was like a classic fairy tale with some Studio Ghibli whimsy thrown in. Enjoyable, though not a page-turner.
The story was interesting; I wanted to know the ending. For me, …
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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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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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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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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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