What a fabulous read!!! I am a big fan of Shakespeare and am fast becoming a big fan of Margaret Atwood. This book is a modern take of The Tempest. What is fascinating about it, compared to other modern adaptations is the way is winds the play within the story, with the story itself. The story follows Felix, an Artistic Director. It begins with him preparing to put on the play, The Tempest. You learn that both his wife and more recently daughter, have passed […]
Ice and blood and family secrets
Growing up in a small town in the Deep Midwest, I dreamed of traveling to all of the exotic places I heard and read about, even though it seemed out of reach. My family was poor and never took any real vacations, not even a road trip to the Black Hills or Yellowstone, and until my freshman year of college, I’d really only been to four states including my own. I didn’t see the ocean until I was 18, didn’t fly until I was 22, […]
Time Travel & T-Rexs
I’ve been struggling to get into Book 6 of The Expanse (sorry guys, but it’s just dragging for me…) and so was in a reading rut. Then I found this on my kindle having picked it up for 99p earlier this year and less than 6 hours later I’d finished the whole damned thing! So thank you Jodi Taylor for writing a fun, fast-paced, romp of a novel that had me turning pages like crazy (even during a boring conference call at work). The book […]
It’s the end of the world as we know it
Time for the final book in Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles (and obviously not the place to start the series!). This contemporary urban fantasy series has evolved from it’s initial roots as “2000 year old druid who looks like a twenty-something slacker hangs out in Arizona” to “every mythos is true and most of them are out to kill you or at least badly mess up your day”. Following the earlier books we’re now at the point where our protagonist has to face up to […]
The value of a memory
It took me 20 years to finally read Tigana. Israel in the 90’s (and especially) Jerusalem did not have a wealth of geeky things for a nerdy teen to enjoy. There was some book, mostly SciFi classics, Tolkien and Dragonlance. There was Dungeons & Dragons, but good luck finding dices. There was also the early internet, and I was lucky enough to have some family friends who lived in America and could help my needs by occasionally sending me reading materials (mostly books) that I […]
The giant cat and realization of love are what drew me in years ago, now it’s the lessons in identity that stand out more
The Prydain books were the next fantasy series I read after being introduced to the Chronicles of Narnia, and I read and re-read them from middle school to college multiple times. Over the past couple of years I have been slowly re-reading the Chronicles of Prydain aloud to my now 10 year old daughter, one book a year has been the pace as we space them out with other books. When we first sat down with The Castle of Llyr I recalled it as being my favorite […]
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