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BOOKS READ in February 2015*
Fantasy with SF elements, or perhaps the other way around. Young Adult. Doesn't end entirely happy, but very good.
Review here: https://ghostgrrrl.wordpress.com/2015....
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Fantasy, Greek mythology, historical, philosophical. The goddess Athena decides to recreate Plato's Republic as an experiment. Apollo turns into a human to learn about free will.
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Fantasy. Basically HP fanfiction - what if Ron killed Voldemort instead of Harry, and years later Harry's a barista while Ron is an Auror, and Harry befriends and falls for Draco? It's like that.
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Fantasy, Welsh mythology/folklore. Even better than Raven Boys.
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SF. The next book in the Hainish series after Rocannon's World. It's technically better, but story-wise I prefer the first book.
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Fantasy, magic school. Not yet published/advanced readers' copy. Village boy discovers magical powers and sets off for magic school full of nobles. Interesting system of magic and cliffhanger ending.
Review to come.
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Fantasy. Sequels to Ginn Hale's Lord of the White Hell series. If you like Ginn Hale, you'll love this.
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Non-Fiction, essays. Kind of like reading Bitch magazine - some articles I agree heartily with, some make me want to make counter arguments, all made me think deeper about pop culture and how it affects my life.
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Children's picture book. Kind of like Thomas the Train. Truthfully, I only read this because I love the illustrator, Edward Ardizzone.
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Fantasy, Children's (9 to 99 years). Chrestomanci series. Re-Read (nth time). The perfect anti-Harry Potter: more realistic depiction of boarding schools, for one.
Review here.
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Fantasy, Welsh mythology/folklore. Young Adult. Aaand this series gets even better. Just give me The Winter King already.
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Fantasy (mostly), short stories. Some are re-reads. Like most collections, the stories are hit or miss. More hits than misses for this collection; in fact, with the omission of one particular story I'd like this anthology a whole lot more.
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Fantasy. Children's (8+ yrs). Re-Read (2nd time). I've seen the movie more than a few times since the first time I read the book, so I remembered it (the movie) better. Re-reading it, I was surprised by the differences, and liked the book a lot more.
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Contemporary. Young Adult. Not yet published/advanced readers' copy. Love triangles and teens cheating on each other, but really it's a lot more complicated than that.
Review to come.
BOOKS READ in March 2015*
Graphic Novel. My friend recommended this to me because she thought I'd like the depiction of Nao as a mixed race character, which is nice. But what I liked the most was the depiction of her morbid thoughts, because they resemble mine somewhat.
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Fantasy/Horror. Young Adult. A vampire story, but absolutely no sparkly happy romantic vampires in this story. Pretty chilling, and unique.
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Fantasy. Basically this is like the best heist movie you've seen, but magical.
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Contemporary. Young Adult. A story about two suicidal teenagers that made a pact to commit suicide together, but ended up saving each other instead.
Review to come.
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SF. Young Adult. Science fiction fairy tale retellings - Cinder is about a cyborg Cinderella, Scarlet is Red Riding Hood, and Cress is Rapunzel. The next book, Winter, will be on Snow White.
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Non-Fiction. Memoir. I am too biased a Sonic Youth/Kim Gordon fan to say anything really, but I loved this book.
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Fantasy, dystopian. Not yet published/advanced readers' copy. A dystopian world inspired by ancient Rome, but with a twist of Middle Eastern mythology.
Review to come.
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Children's picture book. Super cute.
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Children's picture book. Interesting way to teach words and how they're formed.
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Children's picture book. Carson Ellis' illustrations are gorgeous, and I liked the depiction of how "home" means something else to everyone.
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Manga, shonen. Contemporary/Slice-of-life. About a professional shogi player who is still a high school student.
* Naruto (1), Kishimoto Masashi
* Naruto (2), Kishimoto Masashi
* Naruto (3), Kishimoto Masashi
* Naruto (4), Kishimoto Masashi
* Naruto (5), Kishimoto Masashi
* Naruto (6), Kishimoto Masashi
* Naruto (7), Kishimoto Masashi
Manga, shonen. I almost didn't want to admit that I re-read these volumes, but I did. So I'm listing them here. (Not going to put book covers/links since there're too many)
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Contemporary. Young Adult. Not quite what I was expecting.
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SF. Children's/Young Adult. Not yet published/advanced readers' copy. Kind of like the movie Sky High, but better.
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Mainstream Comic. Re-Read (2nd time; the first was in single issues). Kamala Khan should have her own movie/tv series.
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Fantasy. Children's/Young Adult. Re-Read (nth time). A boy comes home from school to find a goon in his kitchen, demanding for "Archer's two thousand". Somehow, this leads to the discovery that their town is being run by seven megalomaniac wizards - some of whom would like to take over the world.
Review to come.
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Thanks, Najibah :)Also re: susunan, because I'm always asked "will I like this book?" at home and work, that I thought I'd include some info for people to be able to judge for themselves.
(I am better at understanding Malay than speaking/writing it, so I hope no one minds me replying in English!)
@MarisaOne thing I can describe about you is...that you a die-hard-fan of fantasy genre.
^_^
(same as me!)
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I count anything I read that is a book (even a wordless picture book), but I have to read it completely, from cover to cover. So - a manga or a wordless picture book will be included in this list, but reading most of the chapters in an academic book would not, because I didn't read the complete book. Single issue comics aren't counted, but collected volumes are.
BOOKS READ in January 2015
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Space Opera / SF. Sequel to Ancillary Justice, which was one of my favourite 2014 reads. This tops the first book, and is well on its way to becoming one of my 2015 favourites.
Mini review here.
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Fantasy. Young Adult. Re-Read (2nd time). Liked it the first time around, love it more now.
Review here.
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Contemporary / "Literary". Read for book club. I thought it was okay, but not my cup of tea, and not something I'd easily recommend.
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Fantasy / Low Fantasy. Young Adult. Not yet published/advanced readers' copy. Very lyrical prose, does meet the "The Fault in Our Stars meets Stardust" expectation, but probably an acquired taste.
Review here.
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Fantasy. Re-Read (nth time). Part of the Chrestomanci series. This made me kind of look down on the HP series, really. (And I was a huge fan when I was younger!)
Review here.
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SF / Magical Realism. Strange sort of SF that has fantasy elements. I enjoyed the prose a lot, and appreciated the way she described durians.
Mini review here.
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SF, but reads like a fantasy. Le Guin's first book, so it isn't as great as her following work, but still quite enjoyable.
Review here.
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SF. I wanted to read a book by Delany because of Jo Walton's Among Others, and chose this to be my first because of Jo Walton's review on Tor.com, as well as for the title. Does not disappoint.
Mini review here.
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Children's (6-8 yrs), realistic fiction. Needed something to read on the way home and happened to have this on hand. Found it surprisingly good.
Mini review here.
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Children's (6-8 yrs), Fantasy. Nice - very light and funny read.
Mini review here.
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Manga, seinen. Contemporary/slice-of-life.
Review of vol 5 here.
* Haikyuu!! (13), Furudate Haruichi
* Haikyuu!! (14), Furudate Haruichi
Manga, shonen. High school/sports. Not much to say; just continuing a long-running series :)
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SF, alternate history. Very interesting premise, but a bit too long.
Mini review here.
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Fantasy/Horror. Young Adult. Re-Read (3rd time). More bleak and creepy if compared to DWJ's other books, but utterly satisfying.
Review here.
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Fantasy, Welsh mythology & folklore. Young Adult. Kind of like a shojo manga, but better.
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Fantasy, Native American mythology. Children's/Young Adult. Re-Read (2nd time). Very small, short book.