Stacking the shelves – Buried giants and apocalyptic anthologies
Oh, man, my eyes hurt. Maybe the whole sinus-jaw-mess of things. I’m not even looking at the screen right now, just squinting and waiting for the hot shower and caffeine and everything to do their jobs...
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Readathon: Bookish survey
I had forgotten the read-a-thon started today! But then I remembered! And here I am, doing today’s challenge, which is a bookish survey. 1. How do you organize your shelves? …I don’t! I just don’t...
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Dreams of shreds and tatters, by Amanda Downum
Title: Dreams of shreds and tatters Author: Amanda Downum Genre: Horror, Fantasy Publisher: Solaris Release Date: 12 May 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 384 The blurb said "Lovecraftian urban fantasy", and...
View ArticleReadathon: Character face-off
I’m always stumped when there are questions about favourite books and characters and stuff, because… it’s kind of fluid stuff, to me, maybe? I always have to think hard. Unless… …Okay. I know. For...
View ArticleReadathon ending and birthday binging
Ha. As is the case with every single readathon I join, I feel like it hit a week in which I was completely out of the reading loop. But I’ve read about a thousand pages, which is really not a poor...
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Apex, by Ramez Naam
Title: Apex Series: Nexus #3 Author: Ramez Naam Genre: Science fiction Publisher: Angry robot Release Date: May 5 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 725 Ramez Naam's Apex is the last part of the Nexus...
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Cuckoo song, by Frances Hardinge
Title: Cuckoo song Author: Frances Hardinge Genre: Fantasy, horror, middle grade, historical Publisher: Amulet books Release Date: 12 May 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 420 Cuckoo song is the second novel...
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Rat Queens vol.2: The far-reaching tentacles of N’Rygoth, by Kurtis J. Wiebe...
Title: Rat Queens vol.2: The far-reaching tentacles of N'Rygoth Series: Rat Queens Author: Kurtis J. Wiebe (author), Rob Upchurch (illustrator), Stjepan Sejic (illustrator) Genre: Graphic novel,...
View ArticleYay the Nebulas! And things
The Nebula awards 2014 have been announced, I’m happy to see Annihilation getting the limelight (and remind myself to read the other two Area X novels). The rest of the novels/novellas list is mostly...
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The singular and extraordinary tale of Mirror and Goliath, by Ishbelle Bee
Title: The singular and extraordinary tale of Mirror and Goliath Series: The Peculiar adventures of John Loveheart, esq #1 Author: Ishbelle Bee Genre: Fantasy, Horror, YA Publisher: Angry Robot...
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Slow bullets, by Alastair Reynolds
Title: Slow bullets Author: Alastair Reynolds Genre: Science fiction, space opera Publisher: Tachyon Release Date: June 9 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 192 Slow bullets is a novella I would have liked to...
View ArticleCringe-reading
Ugh. I’m currently reading a book – a sequel to one I loved – in which a main character is, to be blunt, a bit of a naive bumpkin who is arriving in a larger, much more populated and sophisticated...
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The water knife, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Title: The water knife Author: Paolo Bacigalupi Genre: Science fiction, dystopia Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Release Date: May 26 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 386 The water knife will sort of inevitably...
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Time salvager, by Wesley Chu
Title: Time salvager Author: Wesley Chu Genre: Science fiction Publisher: Angry Robot Release Date: July 9 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 384 I started waiting for Wesley Chu's Time Salvager before I'd...
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Cities and thrones, by Carrie Patel
Title: Cities and thrones Series: Recoletta #2 Author: Carrie Patel Genre: Mystery, dystopian, speculative Publisher: Angry robot Release Date: July 7 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 444 In the...
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Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Title: Aurora Author: Kim Stanley Robinson Genre: Science fiction Publisher: Orbit Release Date: July 9 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 480 "Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach...
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Chapelwood, by Cherie Priest
Title: Chapelwood Series: The Borden Dispatches #2 Author: Cherie Priest Genre: Horror, fantasy Publisher: Roc Release Date: Sep 1 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 448 Birmingham, Alabama is infested with...
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The Flux, by Ferrett Steinmetz
Title: The Flux Series: 'Mancer #2 Author: Ferrett Steinmetz Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Angry Robot Release Date: Oct 6 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 464 Dear The Flux, This is a letter, not a review,...
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Bookburners episode 1: Badge, book and candle, by Max Gladstone, Mur...
Title: Bookburners episode 1: Badge, book and candle Series: Bookburners #1 Author: Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, Brian Francis Slattery Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Serialbox Release...
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The Scorpion rules, by Erin Bow
Title: The Scorpion rules Series: Prisoners of peace #1 Author: Erin Bow Genre: YA, Science fiction Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Release Date: Sep 22 2015 Format: e-book Pages: 384 In the...
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