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March 26, 2018
Down the TBR Hole 11
This is a meme started by Lia at Lost in a Story. The “rules” are: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last …
March 23, 2018
Mini Reviews, Vol. 12
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote some weird stuff. This is his most well-known work (written in 1816), though most people are more familiar with the ballet than the original story. The ballet smooths out some of the weird, like the seven-headed rat king, to …
March 19, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 3/19
…Reading? The Chronological Man: The Monster In The Mist by Andrew Mayne – I have about 25% left on this one. The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis by Shawn Francis Peters – An ARC! All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater – This wasn’t at …
March 17, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 11 ~ “Retro Demonology”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Retro Demonology” by Jana Oliver Card picked: A♣ – Finally a club! Found at: Amazon freebie The Story This is an introductory short story for Jana Oliver’s Demon Trappers series. Riley is the seventeen year-old daughter of a prominent demon trapper, out on her first solo …
March 15, 2018
Review ~ Frankenstein Dreams
Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Science Fiction edited by Michael Sims Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The great themes of modern science fiction showed up surprisingly early: space and time travel, dystopian …
March 14, 2018
Writing Update, 3/14
What Am I Working On? I’ve been reading stories for the automaton anthology I’m putting together. Basically, while I watched the Olympics in February, I search through digital magazine collections and gathered a list of stories (pre-1920) involving automatons. Now, I’m reading those stories and deciding which should go in this collection and which don’t …
March 12, 2018
Down the TBR Hole 10
This is a meme started by Lia at Lost in a Story. The “rules” are: Go to your Goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last …
March 10, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 10 ~ “Pythias”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Pythias” by Frederik Pohl Card picked: 8♥ (It’s week 10 and I still haven’t drawn a club…) Found at: East of the Web The Story “Pythias” begins with our narrator, Dick, in jail for the murder of his friend Larry. Dick tells us that the murder …
March 5, 2018
It’s Monday, What Are You… 3/5
…Reading? I’m not off to a great start for the month. I’ve DNFed two books in a row. Maybe I’m just grumpy or in a picky mood… The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin – I know this is currently a favorite for a lot of readers, but I’m already on the fence about it. …
March 4, 2018
Deal Me In, Week 9 ~ “Thirteen Steps in the Underworld”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “Thirteen Steps in the Underworld” by Su-Yee Lin Card picked: Ace♦ Found at: Tor.com The Story *peers suspiciously at her list of stories and her cards* Another story about a married couple. Maybe I always have this many stories about married people in my Deal Me …
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