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December 29, 2017
My Favourite Reads of the Year
It is that time again! The end of the year is nigh (OMG how did that happen it was February, like, last week!) and with the end of the year also comes the time to start wrapping things up. This year, partially due to timing constrains and largely because my emotional state is complete mush, […]
Book Talk: Winter Tide
Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys is a book that I would never have picked up had it not been on lists of asexual representation because Emrys has said Aphra is asexual in interviews. That is to say: I am not the target audience for this book by a very large margin. I’m not a horror […]
December 24, 2017
Ace Recs: 3 Thriller/Horror Books with Asexual Characters
As is undoubtedly no surprise to anyone who’s heard of me, I really really love giving recommendations for books featuring asexual characters. As a reader and writer on the asexual spectrum, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations lists that are about asexual characters or that include asexual […]
December 22, 2017
Book Talk: The Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green
The Faerie Godmother’s Apprentice Wore Green by Nicky Kyle is a delightful aromantic fairytale. It just squeaks past being a novella, but the story it delivers in these words is a lot of fun, especially if you enjoy fairytale retellings and stories that play on existing tropes and narratives. Despite delivering on a lot of […]
December 17, 2017
Ace Recs: 3 Fantasy Books with Asexual Characters
As is undoubtedly no surprise to anyone who’s heard of me, I really really love giving recommendations for books featuring asexual characters. As a reader and writer on the asexual spectrum, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations lists that are about asexual characters or that include asexual […]
December 16, 2017
Book Talk: The King’s Name
The King’s Name is set several years after the ending of The King’s Peace and starts with the first suggestions of civil war. The last time I read The King’s Peace I sadly didn’t have access to this sequel and time and my already massive TBR let it slip from my mind. Not so this time as […]
December 15, 2017
Book Talk: The Tropic of Serpents
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan is a book that’s been on my TBR pile for… a while. I’ve kind of been avoiding it because I knew it’s a first person narrative and I’ve in the middle of writing a first person narrative of my own since… before I got it. But, eventually, I […]
December 10, 2017
Ace Recs: 3 Science Fiction Books with Asexual Characters
As is undoubtedly no surprise to anyone who’s heard of me, I really really love giving recommendations for books featuring asexual characters. As a reader and writer on the asexual spectrum, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. I’ve seen plenty of recommendations lists that are about asexual characters or that include asexual […]
December 8, 2017
Book Talk: 27 Hours
So… 27 Hours by Tristina Wright. It’s made quite a splash in the online YA circles I frequent for a couple of reasons, notably its positive queer representation and its problematic race representation. I picked the book up specifically so I could familiarise myself with the asexual representation and here we are. If you’d like […]
December 7, 2017
Book Talk: The King’s Name
(Note: 2,531 words including quotations of surprise!book discussion. Let me know if this is an approach or format you’d like to see more of!) The King’s Peace by Jo Walton is actually a reread for me. I first read it in, so my records tell me, 2013, which will have been right around the time […]
