Not sure which of you lovely Cannonballer’s sent this (the book, not the cat) since there was no note, but it was postmarked from a book place in TX. Anyways, you found the one branch of the Parasolverse I have not gotten to yet, so well done and thank you😁
The last chapter is a single sentence
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hussain
Have you ever thought a book sounded interesting, got it, then started it, and decided maybe it wasn’t something that would interest you, then picked it up again almost a year later? That was me with The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday. This time, I read it all the way through it about one sitting; it’s a novella so in terms of length that’s not a big thing. I did get drawn in this second time, and the whole thing ended up being pretty […]
Normal Animated Food Stories
What Did You Eat yesterday? vol. 13 by Fumi Yoshinaga
I find things like Yakitate!! Japan (I’ve only read the manga) and Food Wars! (both the manga and anime) entertaining up to a point, but the over-exaggerated reactions to tasting various foods gets old after a while. If you like graphic novels and food, but want something a little more down-to-earth, then you should check out What Did You Eat Yesterday? It’s a pretty niche series, in that it follows Kenji and Shiro, a gay couple in current day Japan, through their daily lives, but […]
History of several kinds
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
I have to admit up front that I did not completely finish The Cooking Gene; I had it from the library and ran out of renewals before I had to return it. This is not a fast read if you want to really get the content and the feeling. I don’t mean that the style is hard to read; on the contrary, it’s written in a pretty conversational way. What made it slower for me was the depth of what was being presented. This came […]
An Inexplicable Hatred of Raisins
Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne
Score again for shelf-browsing time burning selection from the local library! I had a few minutes to spare, had to stop by the local library to pick something else up, went shelf-browsing and found this: Ink & Sigil. This was fantasy fun at its best, not only because of the characters, mechanics of the magic, and intrigue of the plot, but also because of the reasonably integrated exploration of a real world serious problem, in this case human trafficking. Let’s back up a sec to […]
Imagine if high school graduation was a Hunger Games competition
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Bingo Review #25 Reader’s Choice in place of Gateway, and Blackout! I was rather hoping to use A Deadly Education for the Gateway square as the introduction to Naomi Novik. I have changed my mind upon completing the novel, but thankfully I still had the Reader’s Choice square open. I was kind of hoping to not use it, but oh well. The premise of this novel and apparently series is brilliant; think Harry Potter’s Hogwarts crossed with Hunger Games. That’s what this is. El is […]
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