Masterlist
Jul. 9th, 2029 | 12:15 am
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BTW! I think repodding is awesome. That would mean I have a version of the podfic I didn't have to edit at ALL \o/
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BTW! I think repodding is awesome. That would mean I have a version of the podfic I didn't have to edit at ALL \o/
And if you would like to make a Fannish Thing based or inspired by a Fannish Thing I have made, go for it! Blanket Permission!
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Oh, Also! It's totes cool for you to friend me, but could you comment and say how you found me? You don't have to! Saying words to other people on LJ/DW can be hard. But I always wonder.
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Hurricane Update Tweet
Jul. 11th, 2019 | 02:23 pm
BTW, my Dad's fishing camp marina down in Grand Isle says they're having a mandatory evac and Dad and some friends went down to go fetch the RV back.
Grand Isle is like, literally a pile of sand people live on if they're really keen on fishing. There are also sno cone stands and a really smol library.
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Grand Isle is like, literally a pile of sand people live on if they're really keen on fishing. There are also sno cone stands and a really smol library.
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Jul. 11th, 2019 | 02:19 pm
I think ruffles are my least favorite kind of potato chip.
Some people are Not At Home for kettle chips, but I like them just fine. Especially if Salt & Vinegar flavored.
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Some people are Not At Home for kettle chips, but I like them just fine. Especially if Salt & Vinegar flavored.
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HELLO VOID!!!! I think twitter is down and this is not cool.
Jul. 11th, 2019 | 02:06 pm
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FEELINGS AND 'FORCES' BEYOND MY CONTROL
Dec. 15th, 2017 | 12:28 am
Hello internet, this calls for BLOGGING.
Here is an mp3 of my THE LAST JEDI thoughts and feelings. I underwent a journey recording this, for sure.
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Here is an mp3 of my THE LAST JEDI thoughts and feelings. I underwent a journey recording this, for sure.
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What if I post an update fore every book I read, right when I read it? WHAT THEN?
Jan. 13th, 2016 | 06:09 pm
I have finished two books so far this year!
The Hum and The Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
Urban Rural Fantasy that turned out to be much more of a Magical Realism flavor and thus not my jam. A very nicely written book! Nice audio! It did not bring me joy.
(Bronwyn Hyatt one of the Tufa of Cloud County Tennessee comes home from Iraq a CNN darling and War Hero, there's a Haint waiting to talk to her, and her mother's been seeing death omens.
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
JOY. SO COOL. SO GREAT. Twitter was very pleased with my choice to read this and within one page, SO WAS I.
It's the early 1970s and Janet is starting her freshman year at the minnesotan liberal arts college her parents work at. She can quote HELLA shakespeare and Keats and makes friends. Classics majors are WEIRD. Somethings going on with them. It is a retelling of TAM LIN (obvs? ovbs.) set in near-modern america! It's BLISSFUL. It is a lovely lovely tale of attending college. And also thwarting a fairy queen.
I am currently reading The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2 - Squirrel You Know It's True written by Ryan North. It is very Squirrel Girl-y.
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The Hum and The Shiver by Alex Bledsoe
(Bronwyn Hyatt one of the Tufa of Cloud County Tennessee comes home from Iraq a CNN darling and War Hero, there's a Haint waiting to talk to her, and her mother's been seeing death omens.
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
JOY. SO COOL. SO GREAT. Twitter was very pleased with my choice to read this and within one page, SO WAS I.
It's the early 1970s and Janet is starting her freshman year at the minnesotan liberal arts college her parents work at. She can quote HELLA shakespeare and Keats and makes friends. Classics majors are WEIRD. Somethings going on with them. It is a retelling of TAM LIN (obvs? ovbs.) set in near-modern america! It's BLISSFUL. It is a lovely lovely tale of attending college. And also thwarting a fairy queen.
I am currently reading The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2 - Squirrel You Know It's True written by Ryan North. It is very Squirrel Girl-y.
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WHY IS TELLING THE INTERNET ABOUT THE BOOKS I READ SO HARD
Nov. 5th, 2015 | 11:10 am
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Pulley, Natasha
SO LOVELY? SO LOVELY. I have so many yuletide hopes pinned on this book.
'thaniel is a telegraphist for the UK government who mysteriously acquires a watch that warns him of and saves him from a bombing attack. Keita Mori is the japanese baron living in london as a watchmaker. He has precognition and has always known thaniel would be his friend. if he made the right choices. [] is the student scientist at oxford trying to prove the existence of the aether. Her time is running out, soon she will have to find a husband who will support her in her efforts after she graduates.
There is a clockwork octopus, gilbert and sulivan are working on the mikado, and EVERYTHING is connected.
It reads like a comfort read on the VERY FIRST READ-THROUGH. Easily in my top 5 for 2015. EASILY.
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Jones, Kelly
CHARMING, beyond my wildest dreams. Epistolary novel of a 12 year old biracial girl whose family has move to the country. Sophie must gather up and learn about the 7 unusual chickens her great uncle Jim owned. Telekenesis, Invisibility, petrification, super speed and 3 more mysterious chickens all while the local poultry expert lady is trying to steal her chickens right out from under her.
D A R L I N G.
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek Wagenen, Maya Van
Memoir in the vein of those books and blogs where you slavishly follow the advice of a publication for a week/month/year - in this case 8th Grader Maya is following the advise of a 1950s teen popularity manual. Some things go well, some thing do not. Unexpected twist ending for a nonfiction book there.
Carnet de Voyage Thompson, Craig
I liked hearing from Craig Thompson at ALA this past May, but man was this a depressing chronicle of a book. It's an illustrated journal of his travels as he researched Habibi and travel through out the middle east, the med, and france. He was nearly perpetually unhappy or lost or in pain or other negative things. :(
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power North, Ryan
Dinosaur Comics guy does it again! This was charming, but not charming in the same squee-ful way as Ms. Marvel. This is a more...hipster humor? idek how to describe it. Love the Squirrel Girl is the WORST at having a secret identity though. Well, I say the worst, I mean charminly she fumbles her way through being actually quite successful at keeping it a secret. And her problem solving skills are unorthadox and AMAZING. Would rec.
Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1) Elliott, Kate
Fuck me but I loved this. One imperial culture that reads as Chinese to me invades an conquers a nearby african-probably land and the culture of the native kingdom that survived was the Court of Fives which is basically a Very Important version of American Ninja Warrior.
Really.
And it's GREAT.
The invading society does NOT value girls or women but the native kingdom did whhic leads to some highly interesting culture clash. Our protag is the daughter of a military man of the old empire and his beloved native lady he is not allowed to marry because laws. She has two or three sisters, the pretty one that looks like an invader, the club footed clever one who wants to become an archivist and the ...annoying little sister one? Anyway that's a hella lot of sisters. Most invaders would have left those unwanted girls at the temple to die or become priestesses but her dad hasn't. but ehr dad also hasn't been promoted like he would be if he had a pretty Patron wife and a son...
So our protag is sneekingo ut at night to train to run the fives and she's god at it and stuff but then she almost wins her first public competition and has to fake a loss b/c if she won she'd have to take her competitor's mask off and then her family would be shaaaaaamed so she looses on purpose to a dud who turns out to be a prince.
And then her dad's military sponsor dies in horible debt and her dad has to mary a patron lady and abandon her family who get HORRIBLY WORNGED by the inlaws and they get locked in a tomb alive. It's a thing, but it's not a thing that sould happen to THEM.
STUFF HAPPENS. It's exciting and full of cliffhangers and I had WAY FUN.
Black Widow, Vol. 2: The Tightly Tangled Web Edmondson, Nathan
I remember almost nothing about this comic.
The Thread That Binds the Bones (Chapel Hollow #1) Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
When I read Why This Book Is So Great I was charmed by Jo Walton's love of Nina Kiriki Hoffman so I got her Nina's first book - Thread That Binds the Bones - It reads like a late 80s/early90s paperback comfort read - which is EXACTLY what it is. I would not be opposed to reading more from her.
Princess Ugg Volume 1 Naifeh, Ted
A barbarian princess enrolls herself in a lowlander princess school to learn diplomacy to settle her people's differeneces with the frost giants but everything is SO DIFFERENT than what she's used to. She makes friends, she makes enemies, it's totally charming.
Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher, #1) Hambly, Barbara
Turn of the century/Pre WWI novel about a former spy (and Oxford professor) hired by a vampire to do an investigation into several recent vampire slayings. Looove it as a historical mystery. Barbara Hambly and all, ofc. I would have consumed the WHOLE SERIES I'm pretty sure except at this time of the year I'm trying to cram a diversity of books in for booktalking purposes.
What Do You Do with an Idea? Yamada, Kobi
Picture book where Ideas are litke little spirits or creatures you adopt and care for . Nice on a straight read and the metatextual level.
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) Leckie, Ann
SPACE OPERA OF MY HEART. I rec the Ancillary series left right and center they're SO GREAT. I love the resolutions we get in this book.
Purple and Black Parker, K.J.
OMG OMG OMG BEST IOF EPISTOLARY NOVELLAS.
The Sleeper and the Spindle Gaiman, Neil
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED. I liked it. the illustrations were a TREAT and I liked the twists and the ending.
Bone Gap Ruby, Laura
Fucking weird. But in a really GOOD way.
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SO LOVELY? SO LOVELY. I have so many yuletide hopes pinned on this book.
'thaniel is a telegraphist for the UK government who mysteriously acquires a watch that warns him of and saves him from a bombing attack. Keita Mori is the japanese baron living in london as a watchmaker. He has precognition and has always known thaniel would be his friend. if he made the right choices. [] is the student scientist at oxford trying to prove the existence of the aether. Her time is running out, soon she will have to find a husband who will support her in her efforts after she graduates.
There is a clockwork octopus, gilbert and sulivan are working on the mikado, and EVERYTHING is connected.
It reads like a comfort read on the VERY FIRST READ-THROUGH. Easily in my top 5 for 2015. EASILY.
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer Jones, Kelly
CHARMING, beyond my wildest dreams. Epistolary novel of a 12 year old biracial girl whose family has move to the country. Sophie must gather up and learn about the 7 unusual chickens her great uncle Jim owned. Telekenesis, Invisibility, petrification, super speed and 3 more mysterious chickens all while the local poultry expert lady is trying to steal her chickens right out from under her.
D A R L I N G.
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek Wagenen, Maya Van
Memoir in the vein of those books and blogs where you slavishly follow the advice of a publication for a week/month/year - in this case 8th Grader Maya is following the advise of a 1950s teen popularity manual. Some things go well, some thing do not. Unexpected twist ending for a nonfiction book there.
Carnet de Voyage Thompson, Craig
I liked hearing from Craig Thompson at ALA this past May, but man was this a depressing chronicle of a book. It's an illustrated journal of his travels as he researched Habibi and travel through out the middle east, the med, and france. He was nearly perpetually unhappy or lost or in pain or other negative things. :(
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power North, Ryan
Dinosaur Comics guy does it again! This was charming, but not charming in the same squee-ful way as Ms. Marvel. This is a more...hipster humor? idek how to describe it. Love the Squirrel Girl is the WORST at having a secret identity though. Well, I say the worst, I mean charminly she fumbles her way through being actually quite successful at keeping it a secret. And her problem solving skills are unorthadox and AMAZING. Would rec.
Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1) Elliott, Kate
Fuck me but I loved this. One imperial culture that reads as Chinese to me invades an conquers a nearby african-probably land and the culture of the native kingdom that survived was the Court of Fives which is basically a Very Important version of American Ninja Warrior.
Really.
And it's GREAT.
The invading society does NOT value girls or women but the native kingdom did whhic leads to some highly interesting culture clash. Our protag is the daughter of a military man of the old empire and his beloved native lady he is not allowed to marry because laws. She has two or three sisters, the pretty one that looks like an invader, the club footed clever one who wants to become an archivist and the ...annoying little sister one? Anyway that's a hella lot of sisters. Most invaders would have left those unwanted girls at the temple to die or become priestesses but her dad hasn't. but ehr dad also hasn't been promoted like he would be if he had a pretty Patron wife and a son...
So our protag is sneekingo ut at night to train to run the fives and she's god at it and stuff but then she almost wins her first public competition and has to fake a loss b/c if she won she'd have to take her competitor's mask off and then her family would be shaaaaaamed so she looses on purpose to a dud who turns out to be a prince.
And then her dad's military sponsor dies in horible debt and her dad has to mary a patron lady and abandon her family who get HORRIBLY WORNGED by the inlaws and they get locked in a tomb alive. It's a thing, but it's not a thing that sould happen to THEM.
STUFF HAPPENS. It's exciting and full of cliffhangers and I had WAY FUN.
Black Widow, Vol. 2: The Tightly Tangled Web Edmondson, Nathan
I remember almost nothing about this comic.
The Thread That Binds the Bones (Chapel Hollow #1) Hoffman, Nina Kiriki
When I read Why This Book Is So Great I was charmed by Jo Walton's love of Nina Kiriki Hoffman so I got her Nina's first book - Thread That Binds the Bones - It reads like a late 80s/early90s paperback comfort read - which is EXACTLY what it is. I would not be opposed to reading more from her.
Princess Ugg Volume 1 Naifeh, Ted
A barbarian princess enrolls herself in a lowlander princess school to learn diplomacy to settle her people's differeneces with the frost giants but everything is SO DIFFERENT than what she's used to. She makes friends, she makes enemies, it's totally charming.
Those Who Hunt the Night (James Asher, #1) Hambly, Barbara
Turn of the century/Pre WWI novel about a former spy (and Oxford professor) hired by a vampire to do an investigation into several recent vampire slayings. Looove it as a historical mystery. Barbara Hambly and all, ofc. I would have consumed the WHOLE SERIES I'm pretty sure except at this time of the year I'm trying to cram a diversity of books in for booktalking purposes.
What Do You Do with an Idea? Yamada, Kobi
Picture book where Ideas are litke little spirits or creatures you adopt and care for . Nice on a straight read and the metatextual level.
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) Leckie, Ann
SPACE OPERA OF MY HEART. I rec the Ancillary series left right and center they're SO GREAT. I love the resolutions we get in this book.
Purple and Black Parker, K.J.
OMG OMG OMG BEST IOF EPISTOLARY NOVELLAS.
The Sleeper and the Spindle Gaiman, Neil
NOT WHAT I EXPECTED. I liked it. the illustrations were a TREAT and I liked the twists and the ending.
Bone Gap Ruby, Laura
Fucking weird. But in a really GOOD way.
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...monthly...reading meme.
Sep. 23rd, 2015 | 06:08 pm
Last Flight (Dragon Age, #5)
Merciel, Liane
I absolutely TORE through this Dragon Age tie-in novel. It's about how the now-extinct GRIFFONS become extinct and it is a story of Garahel and the end of the fourth blight and I found it highly interesting and way compelling. Would make less than full sense to someone who does not have a backround in the Dragon Age world.
Things revealed in Last Flight had no impact on DAI which is both exciting and frustrating. WHEN. HOW. EXPLAIN MOAR.
Last First Snow (Craft Sequence #4)
Gladstone, Max *
I adore the Craft sequence still. I was pretty nervy coming into this book - all the previous books had been standalones having only the world in common but this one revisited characters from previous books! Books I last year or the year before that!
Previous novels included:
- bb Necromantic Lawyer's first case - asset divisions of a dead god. who was murdered.
- Magic Enviromentalism and water rights consulting in a city powered by wizardry
- Offshore tax havens when your currency is made of people's souls
Last First Snow is: Gentrification, property insurance, and the Occupy movement when your leader is a priest of dead gods and his opposing number is a walking talking skeleton wizard.
They're GREAT. I was worried for Temoc SO MUCH. SO MUCH SHIT WENT DOWN.
Deadpool, Vol. 1: Dead Presidents
Posehn, Brian
After reading Hawkeye vs. Deadpool I was game to add another Marvel writer to my list of comics people I read so I checked out Brian Posehn's firs work on Deadpool - Dead Presidents!
I liked it! It's a lot gorier than the Hawkeye side of things, but in a Kingsman kind of way, not Locke and Key.
A rogue magician raises all the presidents from the dead and they want to DESTROY AMERICA but shield decides it'd be a pretty poor showing to have the avengers do it so the hire Deadpool. Funtimes!
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Two Worlds, One Cop
Fraction, Matt
THINGS DEVELOP in Sex Criminals land! Still interesting, well written, very pretty. Good, good, good.
The Curse of Chalion (Chalion, #1)
Bujold, Lois McMaster *
This was a comfort re-listen of the audiobook. 5/5 stars 4ever.
A Famine of Horses (Sir Robert Carey, #1)
Chisholm, P.F.
A Famine of Horses is really #onbrand for me - it's a historical murder mystery set on the English side of the border with Scotland in the early 1600s there is much stealing of cows and horses and things happen.
It was not utterly beyond measure, but it was reasonable fun.
This was read on a rec from my GPGC Humanities teacher when I was 12. We hang out socially now whenever I'm in Lake Charles which is surreal but awesome. I recced her Code Name Verity (ofc).
Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)
Cho, Zen *
This book has been getting SO MUCH HYPE. It did not live up to FIVE STAR HYPE for me, but it was a solid 3.75.
It's a REGENCY MAGIC AND POLITICS AND INTRIGUE story. With poc protags!
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Roach, Mary *
Also not QUITE as great as the hype, though it was WAY FUN. I just thought The Poisoner's Handbook was betterrrrrrrrr.
Lol just watch this turn into Oxford vs Cambridge Latin Course.
[OXFORD BEST, BTW]
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Aug. 26th, 2015 | 07:04 pm
Nine Goblins Kingfisher, T. 4.18
Goblins get magically transported by a wizard to behind enemy lines and have to solve mysterious deaths, feed themselves and try to get home. Very Monstrous Regiment but with fewer girls dressed as boys. (But still a girl as Sargent)
It was blissfully lovely stuff.
True Pretenses (Lively St. Lemeston, #2) Lerner, Rose * 4.15
Oh my god. Oh my god? SUCH a great regency romance. Your leading lady is really invested in her family's place in the local community's charity efforts through the Whig party and idk stuff marriage of convenience to the con man who proposed she marry his brother.
Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1) Aaronovitch, Ben * 3.91
This is my second experience of Rivers of London - I read the book in November of 2012 - one of my VERY FIRST books of my reading renaissance. (I've read so many books since then, you guys :333333)
This time, I listened to the audiobook! And kept my ears alert for moments that caused fanwriters of the world to ship Peter and Nightingale *g*.
Rook Cameron, Sharon * 3.78
I was SO DISAPPOINTED in how lacking in happy and compelling I found this book. It's a post-apocalyptic retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel! And yet. I read two other books this week instead of finishing it. and I read it extreeemly slowly. With frequent twitter breaks. :(
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Goblins get magically transported by a wizard to behind enemy lines and have to solve mysterious deaths, feed themselves and try to get home. Very Monstrous Regiment but with fewer girls dressed as boys. (But still a girl as Sargent)
It was blissfully lovely stuff.
True Pretenses (Lively St. Lemeston, #2) Lerner, Rose * 4.15
Oh my god. Oh my god? SUCH a great regency romance. Your leading lady is really invested in her family's place in the local community's charity efforts through the Whig party and idk stuff marriage of convenience to the con man who proposed she marry his brother.
Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1) Aaronovitch, Ben * 3.91
This is my second experience of Rivers of London - I read the book in November of 2012 - one of my VERY FIRST books of my reading renaissance. (I've read so many books since then, you guys :333333)
This time, I listened to the audiobook! And kept my ears alert for moments that caused fanwriters of the world to ship Peter and Nightingale *g*.
Rook Cameron, Sharon * 3.78
I was SO DISAPPOINTED in how lacking in happy and compelling I found this book. It's a post-apocalyptic retelling of The Scarlet Pimpernel! And yet. I read two other books this week instead of finishing it. and I read it extreeemly slowly. With frequent twitter breaks. :(
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August Book Meme
Aug. 22nd, 2015 | 02:27 pm
Oh god, I'm sorry I don't have the wereithal to do full bookreviews the way they deserve. I've left it until there are far too many.
Uprooted Novik, Naomi * 4.24
EVIL FOREST. MYSTERIOUS WIZARD IN A TOWER HOLDS BACK THE EVIL CORRUPTING FOREST. HE TAKES A GIRL FROM THE VALLEY EVERY TEN YEARS. EVERYONE KNOWS HE'LL PICK KASIA. He doesn't. He picks Agnieszka. and now he's training her up to be a witch. Eastern European folklore fabulosity. Feels a bit Howl's Moving Castle. As excellent as expected.
Penric's Demon (World of the Five Gods, #3.5) Bujold, Lois McMaster * 4.34
Bujold wrote a novella about a boy from a poor-but-noble cheese making family who accidentally inherits a demon. Way lovely.
Shadowshaper Older, Daniel José * 4.03
So this is an urban fantasy novel about a Afro-Latina girl in Brooklyn coming into her magical powers. But though it sounds great and the cover is the prettiest thing, it's...not that extraordinary a read. For me.
The Great Greene Heist Johnson, Varian 3.87
THIS THOUGH. This is a HEISTFIC. Set at a middleschool. Centering around a class presidential election. It's so super great. Like wow. And so nerd-perfect! A component of thier plan is called the Kobayashi Maru.
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed Wilson, G. Willow * 4.28
Darling as ever. Kamla takes down Loki at a Valentines Day dance and meets some new Inhumans!
Prairie Fire Johnston, E.K. * 4.12
I have so many feelings. I can't believe how wonderful and feelings-ful this book was. I love the subtle (and not subtle at all) alternate history moments a dragon-full world has. The ways Shioban and Owen's actions in the last book affect them in this book, thier experiences in the Oil Watch, THE ENDING.
#majchardeath #earned #good #somanycreys
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium Gillen, Kieron 4.33
MAJOR EVENTS EVENTING. KIERON GILLEN DOES GOOD WORK.
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat Frydenborg, Kay 3.43
There are worse nonfiction books for teens to read. There are better nonfiction books for people I like to read.
Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp Farrell, Mary Cronk * 4.09
A very nice nonfiction book for the upper middle grades. good pictures, good stories (though I got the nurses mixed up rather a lot, sorry), compelling content.
There are SO MANY teen nonfictions books about WWII you guys. So. Many.
To Hold the Bridge Nix, Garth * 3.83
I did this one as an audiobook and had a GREAT time with it. Every story had a different reader.
I'd only seen Garth had put out a new book of short stories by happenstance - seeing it at a library I visited while on vacation! The first story, To Hold The Bridge was the only Old Kingdom story in the collection (as is usual) but there was also a story from the Shades Children universe AND one from the Confusion of Princes Universe.
I loved the variety of settings and genres the collection ran to. Vampire Weather was a particular favorite. I REALLY didn't expect one of the stories to involve Hellboy. How licensing?
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Uprooted Novik, Naomi * 4.24
EVIL FOREST. MYSTERIOUS WIZARD IN A TOWER HOLDS BACK THE EVIL CORRUPTING FOREST. HE TAKES A GIRL FROM THE VALLEY EVERY TEN YEARS. EVERYONE KNOWS HE'LL PICK KASIA. He doesn't. He picks Agnieszka. and now he's training her up to be a witch. Eastern European folklore fabulosity. Feels a bit Howl's Moving Castle. As excellent as expected.
Penric's Demon (World of the Five Gods, #3.5) Bujold, Lois McMaster * 4.34
Bujold wrote a novella about a boy from a poor-but-noble cheese making family who accidentally inherits a demon. Way lovely.
Shadowshaper Older, Daniel José * 4.03
So this is an urban fantasy novel about a Afro-Latina girl in Brooklyn coming into her magical powers. But though it sounds great and the cover is the prettiest thing, it's...not that extraordinary a read. For me.
The Great Greene Heist Johnson, Varian 3.87
THIS THOUGH. This is a HEISTFIC. Set at a middleschool. Centering around a class presidential election. It's so super great. Like wow. And so nerd-perfect! A component of thier plan is called the Kobayashi Maru.
Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Crushed Wilson, G. Willow * 4.28
Darling as ever. Kamla takes down Loki at a Valentines Day dance and meets some new Inhumans!
Prairie Fire Johnston, E.K. * 4.12
I have so many feelings. I can't believe how wonderful and feelings-ful this book was. I love the subtle (and not subtle at all) alternate history moments a dragon-full world has. The ways Shioban and Owen's actions in the last book affect them in this book, thier experiences in the Oil Watch, THE ENDING.
#majchardeath #earned #good #somanycreys
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 2: Fandemonium Gillen, Kieron 4.33
MAJOR EVENTS EVENTING. KIERON GILLEN DOES GOOD WORK.
Chocolate: Sweet Science & Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat Frydenborg, Kay 3.43
There are worse nonfiction books for teens to read. There are better nonfiction books for people I like to read.
Pure Grit: How WWII Nurses in the Pacific Survived Combat and Prison Camp Farrell, Mary Cronk * 4.09
A very nice nonfiction book for the upper middle grades. good pictures, good stories (though I got the nurses mixed up rather a lot, sorry), compelling content.
There are SO MANY teen nonfictions books about WWII you guys. So. Many.
To Hold the Bridge Nix, Garth * 3.83
I did this one as an audiobook and had a GREAT time with it. Every story had a different reader.
I'd only seen Garth had put out a new book of short stories by happenstance - seeing it at a library I visited while on vacation! The first story, To Hold The Bridge was the only Old Kingdom story in the collection (as is usual) but there was also a story from the Shades Children universe AND one from the Confusion of Princes Universe.
I loved the variety of settings and genres the collection ran to. Vampire Weather was a particular favorite. I REALLY didn't expect one of the stories to involve Hellboy. How licensing?
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