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Tag Archives: Female Author
Thoughts: This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Truly, this is the briefest palate-cleanser between Tarzans. Partly because this book is a novella, but also because it’s of that kind of particularly swallowable book. Lately I feel like I talk about swallowing books whole or inhaling them a … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Record of a Spaceborn Few, by Becky Chambers
It feels like I’m absolutely racing through books lately, so here I am again lest I overtake myself in reading and give myself a backlog again. There are some cracking books I ended up just skipping over to get back … Continue reading
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Thoughts: A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers
Lucky me ended up going into work for a thing that could only be done in the office, and to make up for this outrage, with me went the colleague who had lent me The Long Way To A Small … Continue reading
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Thoughts-ish: Tristan et Iseut, edited by Michel Zink
I’m not going to write a scholarly essay on this, sorry and you’re welcome. This is just closure for me, and letting myself brag a bit, because this was a really difficult read and I got through it! (Musical accompaniment!)
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Thoughts: Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes
I’m only… eight years late? Well, let’s get stuck in. Spoilers abound, probably.
Thoughts: The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel
Oh man, this one is going to be disappointing in terms of analysis and detail. What can I say? I’ve been waiting years for it, and it came. It was what I was hoping for. I only had to haul … Continue reading
Thoughts: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, by Becky Chambers
So, given all the Covid-19 that’s going around, it’s probably a good time to catch up on reading, yes? I have a bit of a (totally normal) cold right now, so I’m feeling particularly sympathetic to the quarantiners. And happy … Continue reading
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Thoughts: The Power, by Naomi Alderman
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! Not because I was thinking ugh I will hate this book, better read it, because I uh definitely never do that (let me kick Thomas Wolfe under this carpet here), but … Continue reading
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Thoughts: Findings, by Kathleen Jamie
This is going to be a short one, partly because I’m implausibly still full of cold and partly because I just couldn’t think of a lot to say about this one – but not in a bad way.
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Thoughts: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko is in a genre of book that I tend not to gravitate towards but pretty much always enjoy when it finds its way into my hands – long, sprawling family saga. I don’t know why exactly I don’t seek … Continue reading
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