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In a lush solarpunk future, plants have stripped most of the poison from the air and bounty hunters keep resource …
After their parents are killed, twins Kael and Brenna Skyborn become Seraphim, aerial soldiers who use ice, fire, stone, and …
Station Eleven is a novel by the Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel. It takes …
So this was pretty good yarn, but I would say that choosing to read it in the middle of a pandemic was not all that great for improved mental health. Maybe read it in 2022 :-)
Liked that all the sailing stuff was pretty accurate -- I've sailed a trimaran on the open ocean -- didn't like that there was a lot of sexism -- women in the galley, men making all the decisions.
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun …
This was one of the weirdest books I've encountered. I didn't really read it; after a while I just skimmed, picking up most of the important scenes, I think. I don't really recommend this book, and I fail to see why the back cover blurbs are all about "brilliant". I think the presentation would have been better in a much shorter work; a lot of the things said by the different characters and the bits of plot presented as newspaper clippings seem like wastes of good paper. Also, I might have read the whole thing if it were shorter. Come to think of it, I DID read a shorter work! :-)
The novels of the Dresden Files have become synonymous with action-packed urban fantasy and non-stop …
I couldn't get into this book. There was casual sexism that annoyed me. I suspect the author thought he was presenting his female characters in a positive light, but I didn't like it, and put it down after a hundred or so pages.
This book was weird, even for Modesitt. I'm used to his heroes philosophizing, but usually they make some sort of sense!
I was disappointed that there wasn't a "low fat" recipe in the "good for you" section where it says how to hide wheat germ in your cookies to make them healthier. I've been experimenting with my own recipe (www.olum.org/yduj/recipe/chocolate-chip-cookies.txt) but I'm not completely happy yet.
Still, I plan to try several of the recipes in the book. One of them is low fat because it uses a cup of milk. We'll see how that one goes, whether you end up with muffins.
Immortal Muse is a tale that takes the reader on a fascinating journey from Paris of the late 1300s with …
