Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark– short, fast-paced historical fantasy w/ a little southern gothic thrown in. It’s an exploration of hate, how it builds, consumes, and makes blind, & its destructive power in the US, especially the South. Awesome monster fighting! Highly recommend
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents is a dark/hopeful/painful/victorious dystopian novel. The 2nd in Octavia Butler’s Earthseed series, it follows Lauren as she fulfills her mission to introduce a faith based on truth and humanity’s future. Read it!
Circe by Madeline Miller
When (I read it): Late night treat-time only, when the pull of the book matched the pull of (spoiler warning) my bed. Where (I read it): In bed, where my cocoon allowed me to sink in without expectation or judgment. Why (I read it): A long-ignored predilection for mythology combined with a general crowd gaga-factor. How (I read it): With great anticipation, bought many months ago to read when I could appreciate it. Finally got there. In preface, I’m three books read by the first […]
Bungo Stray Dogs vol 16 by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukagawa
I’ve been following this manga series for a while, and I think I was starting to go off of it since it’s pretty consistently dark but often interesting, and the balance was getting lost. It’s back. The premise is that in this world there are people with special powers that often have something to do with the real literary individual they are named for. The main group of characters are a bunch of misfits who work at a detective agency, the Armed Detective Agency, and […]
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Born in 1875, Edgar Rice Burroughs worked a number of odd jobs until, at the age of 35, he decided to pick up writing. Recalling in 1929 that, “if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten.” So, in 1911, he started writing what would go on to become A Princess of Mars, the first book in his Barsoom series. Shortly thereafter, he would go on to create Tarzan – […]
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir
Please note that although there are no real spoilers in this review, intuitive readers/reviewers might be spoiled anyway because of the way I’m going to say some things. You have been vaguely warned! “Read Gideon the Ninth!” they said. “You’ll love it!” they said. Well, fuck you, I did! I did love it! And I’m so mad and so sad also! It’s been a long time since I let a book get to me like this, and frankly, I blame everyone. I blame the author […]
