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What Makes This Book so Good? by Jo Walton

April 30, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is a collected and bound version of a blog that Jo Walton wrote for Tor.com from about 2008-2010 (give or take). The focus of the blog was to reread various books from “Classic” sci fi to more contemporary sci fi and assess and reassess them. It probably worked fine as a blog, but as a book it’s quite limited. In part it’s limited by its relatively repetitive pattern of summary, explanation, assessment, and restart of most of the reviews. It’s also limited by the […]

Did she say yes to the dress?

January 25, 2018 by Leedock 2 Comments

This is the first Jo Walton book that I have read and only heard about her through reading Cannonball Read reviews (thanks, guys!). Although this isn’t the Walton title that I was looking for at the library (Among Others), it sounded interesting and landed in my TBR pile. I was truly captivated by the first 2/3. The last 1/3? Not so much. A woman suffering from dementia, and now confined to a nursing home, reflects on her life. Pretty straight forward, BUT, she “remembers” two […]

“One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.”

January 17, 2017 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

One of things that I love about Goodreads is that it helps you discover sequels that you never knew existed. When I logged my review of Neverwhere a couple weeks ago, Goodreads called it Neverwhere (London Below, The World of Neverwhere), indicating that other stories must exist in the series! In this instance, it referred to a short story called How the Marquis Got His Coat Back. Google told me it was published in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, so…here we are! While the story of […]

Exploding my to-read list

January 5, 2017 by Valtaga Dee 1 Comment

The prologue to this seemed familiar, but I kept reading since I’d been encouraged to try out this lighter novel after not enjoying Walton’s “The Republic” very much. Turns out that I’d read it in 2012, oops. But that was long enough ago that the details were fuzzy and I enjoyed the re-read. It’s a fantasy story, strongly grounded in the real world of Wales and England in the late 1970’s/early 1980’s, telling what happens to a hero after she’s saved the world, how she […]

Something wicked this way comes

December 31, 2016 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

I need to seek out more writing by Jo Walton. Among Others wasn’t what I thought it would be. It’s fantasy, but only with the lightest touch. It’s magical realism without the overwhelming weirdness that usually comes along with that genre. Among Others centers on Morwenna who grew up in Wales among the fairies, her twin sister, and her batshit crazy mother. After a horrible accident she seeks out her long lost father. He and his three sisters set her up at a boarding school […]

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