Monthly Archives: October 2017

Ghostwritten – David Mitchell

Posted on 24/10/2017 by Roseanna

I really rather love David Mitchell. No real qualification to that, he just writes really well and it pleases me. However, this was his first book, and often that is a bit of a disappointment compared to a favourite author’s … Continue reading →

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Kindred – Octavia Butler

Posted on 15/10/2017 by Roseanna

Welp. I read this in a day. That probably says more than the thousand words I’m going to write could possibly convey about how good I thought this book was (spoilers, I’m going to write those thousand words anyway). Because … Continue reading →

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Ms. Marvel vol. 1 (No Normal) – G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

Posted on 15/10/2017 by Roseanna

MOAR COMICS. That is the theme of today (I have one more after this to read, and then I’m done on my reasonably sized ones until I buy WicDiv vol. 5, I think – I still have Lucifer vol. 2 to … Continue reading →

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Monstress vol. 1 – Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Posted on 14/10/2017 by Roseanna

Another birthday present (yes, I’m taking forever to get through them – I need less of a social life so I can read more books), but also one I’d been meaning to buy myself and read for AGES. And then … Continue reading →

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House of Names – Colm Tóibín

Posted on 14/10/2017 by Roseanna

Hot on the heels of Bright Air Black, another literary reinterpretation of a Classical myth (this time, the Oresteia)… which was probably a bad idea. I mean, this has been on my reading pile for ages, so I was going to get … Continue reading →

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Who Fears Death – Nnedi Okorafor

Posted on 13/10/2017 by Roseanna

Another book-club book, but one I was very much intending to read anyway. It’s the same author as The Book of Phoenix, though this is the earlier work, and I believe The Book of Phoenix is meant as a sort of prelude, … Continue reading →

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Lumberjanes – Stevenson, Ellis, Watters & Allen

Posted on 02/10/2017 by Roseanna

I shall sum this book up in two sentences: Someone: “Ripley, no!” Ripley: “Ripley YES!” Ok, so, if I’m being brutally honest, it’s over-silly and definitely over-sweet, as a story. It’s too twee. It’s too self-absorbed… But there’s a bookish … Continue reading →

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