mI recently ordered a month of Starz through Amazon (I wanted to watch the Lonesome Dove miniseries and Starz was the only place it was streaming) and determined to get my monies worth I decided to look at some of the other offerings, including the most recent adaptation of Howards End. I mean, I watched the really terrible show Conviction for Hayley Atwell, Howards End feels like the least I could do. At the time I started watching it the miniseries was only two episodes […]
Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.
Night’s Master by Tanith Lee is the May selection for the Sword and Laser book group. It’s been a few months since I’ve read the selected book, and since this one was relatively inexpensive I decided to read it. It’s a beautiful lush book, full of interesting characters, but I just didn’t love it. There isn’t much of a plot. The book is a collection of stories that revolve around the demon prince Azhrarn, but at the end some of the very loose plot threads […]
Don’t pick up that bad penny, it could ruin your life
I picked up this collection of short stories because Seanan McGuire had a story in it. Specifically one from her Sparrow Hill Road series, which is connected to the InCryptid series. And since I will read just about everything she puts out into the universe, I picked it up. I wasn’t disappointed by her story, it was fabulous. The rest were, meh, ok. I found this to be a middling collection of short stories, but I’ll be honest it was the framing device that really […]
Anyone who says you can lose their love isn’t really family, no matter what blood says.
So with this review I think I’ve finally worked my way through the backlog of books. I mean, I’ve still got a couple that I need to review but they’re more recent. Yay!? Anyway Tricks for Free is the latest book in Seanan McGuire’s InCryptid series. It was fun, and I’m firmly committed to this series. I don’t know if this book is my favorite, but I enjoyed every second I spent reading it. This book follows Antimony Price to a Disney World stand-in. Antimony […]
You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.
Spoil yourself for this book before you read it. The number one complaint I read in the reviews for it were that people got frustrated trying to figure out what happened at the barbeque, and since that’s the least important thing about the book, they were underwhelmed when it finally did happen. So yes, spoil yourself, and then go in and read Truly Madly Guilty, Moriarty’s book about friendship, trauma, and how trauma shapes our lives. Non-spoilery summary as follows. Three couples have a barbeque […]
Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon won the Newberry Award in 2017, and though it was already on my list of books I wanted to read, this pushed it up the pile when I went looking for the next book to complete my “read all the Newberry Winners” goal. (A goal I’ve been terribly neglecting). I had kind of a weird experience with this book, I wasn’t particularly impressed as I read it and then I reached the end was surprised by all these tears […]
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