May has been very busy, but I got some good reading in. There were so many titles I didn't get to this month that I'm very excited about, so look forward to the June post (assuming I can read a little faster!) The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin I loved this book. The Lotus Palace... Continue Reading →
Last Exit and Choosing Hope
Sometime in the past couple of years someone said, in an Instagram Story or a Tiktok or some other ephemeral medium, something that stuck with me: "You can't see the end of the path until you walk it." The person in question was talking about the environmental movement, about how it seems impossible to adapt... Continue Reading →
Reading Round-up: April 2022
A Marvelous Light by Freya Marske I did enjoy this book, but I don't think it is quite what I was expecting. It opened with a pretty gruesome murder. It was in fact dotted with murders, and abuse, and a lot of really grim things. But that was layered over with a romance that was,... Continue Reading →
The use of color in Encanto
There is nothing quite like comfort when you're sick, so it's no surprise that I finally got around to my planned rewatch of Disney's Encanto this month. And can I just say -- the movie holds up on the rewatch. It remains entertaining. And more importantly, there are all sorts of little hints and clues... Continue Reading →
A brief pause in our scheduled programming to remind folks that I will be reading at Story Hour on April 6th at 10 pm Eastern (next Wednesday). This is a live virtual event, but I'll post the recording here afterwards! **EDIT** Some of you may have noticed that this reading didn't happen. That's because I... Continue Reading →
Story Hour event!
Reading Round-up: February/March 2022
February was apparently sci-fi month. We do have something for fans steampunk and the Three Musketeers in here, but the majority of the list is different flavors of science fiction. Anyway, it's time to talk about some excellent books so let's DO THIS. Starfarers by Vonda McIntyre As part of my effort to go back... Continue Reading →
Nihilism gets you halfway there: ecocentric philosophy in Solarpunk
Last month I finally read Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers' new solarpunk novella from Tor.com. The sequel comes out this year, and I'd seen early rumblings for it and finally decided to dig into the first book. This story is part of an old-but-new wave of science fiction, a subgenre which imagines not the... Continue Reading →
Author Check In
Hello, dears! I hope you're all taking care of yourselves during this weird, weird week. No Reading Round-up this month because I only had three stories I really wanted to include and I felt like that would leave it a little short. Expect an extra long Round-up in March, by which point I anticipate that... Continue Reading →
REVIEW: Dark Breakers by C.S.E. Cooney
As you all know, occasionally I am blessed with an ARC, and if I read the ARC and enjoy it the book gets its own super special review. And seeing as I did indeed receive this review copy of Dark Breakers, out from Mythic Delirium on February 15th, allow me to tell you what you're... Continue Reading →
Reading Round-up: January 2022
A new year, a new list of books! Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton It took me an entire year to read this book, which was incredibly long and broken into three big sections which I treated as their own novels. It may not take you that long if you like your works on the denser... Continue Reading →
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