Read on for shorter reviews of something fast paced and pulpy, and something more on the literary scale!
Continue readingMini Book Reviews: Aphrodite & The Gilded Crown
Read on for shorter reviews of two very different books!
Continue readingDoomscribe Recommends: A Bevy of Good Books
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve read a lot of good/great books since then. So here are some reviews of the ones I can best remember.
Continue reading2025 Goals – First Quarter Update
As promised, the slightly late update to my 2025 goal progress. It’s mostly going well!
Continue readingBook Review: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shroud is a claustrophobic xeno-sci-fi survival story, with additional themes of alien intelligence and inter-species communication (themes fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky surely love). It’s a strong entry into the genre that features a wildly imaginative setting inimical to human life.
Continue reading2025 Goals
I’m breaking format a little bit this year! For the last two or three years, I’ve split my goals into three categories – general goals, author goals and specific book goals. This past year, while I did fairly well with my goals, I did start to feel the strain of the sheer amount of books meeting my goals would require, versus the amount of books I’ve been reading (keeping in mind that I also do r/fantasy book bingo, which is a further 25 books that may or may not match up to those goals). This year I’m going to loosen it up a bit, and also leave myself an opportunity to re-jig my goals halfway through the year as my priorities change.
Let’s begin.
Continue reading2024 End of Year Review: General Observations
Welcome to my End of Year Review, where I will muddle along about the books that I’ve read this year.
Continue reading2024 Goal Updates: End of year
It’s the end of the year, so this notes my final goal updates for this year, encompassing the last three months, as well as the year as a whole.
Continue readingTop Ten Books Read This Year (2024)
It’s another top ten list to round out the year, this time highlighting my favourite books read this year. This time I’m doing my best to only select one book per author or series. It’s a little early, but the books I’m reading now aren’t likely to make it into my top ten this time (if they surprise me I’ll fit them into the next year’s list!)
Continue readingBook Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
In Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor, a woman wrestling with her own sense of self in a family that doesn’t quite accept her as she is writes a best selling sci-fi novel – and begins to become a part of her own science fiction story as technology starts to intersect with her life. It has complex characters, raw emotion, and plays with narrative subtly, making it a hard thing to pin down.
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