One post every six months? Is that even a blog? Not to lean on tired cliches, but life has truly gotten in the way of my ability to write. Having a baby, juggling work and various daycare outages, and trying to find time to keep our house in order leaves little time for other things. Regardless of what’s going on, however, I have been able […]
Title: The Priory of the Orange Tree Author: Samantha Shannon Date Purchased: 10/14/2020 Price Paid: $2.11 Date Finished: 6/4/2022 Rating: 4/5 Over the past several years, the fantasy and science fiction genres have seen a glut of books that are part of a series. Trilogies, duologies, sagas, cycles…no matter what you want to call them it seems like authors can’t keep a story contained within […]
Title: Amongst Our Weapons Author: Ben Aaronovitch Date Purchased: 4/16/2022 Date Finished: 5/1/2022 Rating: 4/5 Waiting a month or more to write a review is…problematic. This was the first book I’ve purchased in a year and a half. Given how my habits were going prior to starting this project, that’s an achievement all on its own. I had recently finished the seventh and eighth books […]
That’s right. For the first time in 537 days I purchased a new book. It was just as exciting as I remember it being! The thrill of clicking that button, the ding of my email with the confirmation, the book waiting for me when I open my iPad. Oh, man. I’ve missed this.
Title: The City We Became Author: N.K. Jemisin Date Purchased: 9/1/2020 Price Paid: $4.23Date Finished: 4/15/2022Rating: 5/5 Before I dig too deeply into this review, I will warn the reader that there are going to be some spoilers. Nothing massive in the grand scheme of things, but there is one thing I absolutely NEED to talk about and I can’t do that without some spoilers. […]
Title: The Ten Thousand Doors of January Author: Alix E. Harrow Date Purchased: 8/09/2020 Price Paid: $4.23 Date Finished: 3/24/2022 Rating: 4/5 I have spent a lot of time lately thinking about how much life changed in 2020. That statement seems obvious as I write this in April of 2022, but I think we are yet to see all of the ripples that were caused […]