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Book review: Seven of Infinities
Book reviews / Science Fiction

Book review: Seven of Infinities

Posted on January 3, 2021 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

This story centres around Vân (a scholar and teacher) and Sunless Woods, who is a mind ship and a scholar as well. Or so they both seem to be at the beginning, but then their real identities emerge through the story, as they both try to unravel a mystery. Continue reading →

Book review: Silk and Steel
Book reviews / Fantasy / Science Fiction

Book review: Silk and Steel

Posted on December 17, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

This was a kickstartered anthology (which I contributed to), which takes the speculative tropes of a man rescuing a woman (and them falling for each other), but in this case they are both women. Continue reading →

Book review: Prime Meridian
Book reviews / Science Fiction

Book review: Prime Meridian

Posted on December 12, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

The story centres around Amelia, who had to give up on her dreams and university to care for her sick mother. But through it all, she keeps dreaming of going to Mars. Continue reading →

Book review: Irrationality
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: Irrationality

Posted on December 7, 2020 by blogendorff • 1 Comment

It is very much like Thinking, fast and slow, in that it details the various ways that our brain works against us when it comes to being rational. Continue reading →

Book review: The City We Became
Book reviews / Fantasy

Book review: The City We Became

Posted on December 1, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

The plot is basically cities are ‘born’, in that the accrue enough history, myths and legends that they pierce through different realities to become a living breathing thing, with a human avatar that becomes its champion. Continue reading →

Book review: How to Suppress Women’s writing
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: How to Suppress Women’s writing

Posted on November 24, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

Joanna Russ methodically goes through the various reasons, throughout the decades, that women’s (and other marginalised groups) writing is classed as inferior. Continue reading →

Book review: The route of ice and salt
Book reviews / Fantasy

Book review: The route of ice and salt

Posted on November 24, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

A translation of a Mexican gothic Dracula retelling, focussing on the Captain of the Demeter. Continue reading →

Book review: Do What You Want
Book reviews / Non fiction

Book review: Do What You Want

Posted on November 23, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

Do what you want is a history of one of my favourite bands, Bad Religion, who have been a band longer than I have been alive Continue reading →

Book review: Ring Shout
Book reviews / Fantasy

Book review: Ring Shout

Posted on November 22, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

Ring Shout takes place after World War 1, where in the southern United States, the Ku Klux Klan are on the rise. Except in this stories, instead of being just monstrous humans, they are monsters. Continue reading →

Book review: Lost Enlightenment
Book reviews / History / Non fiction

Book review: Lost Enlightenment

Posted on November 21, 2020 by blogendorff • Leave a comment

In short, the book looks at the period of Central Asian history of greatest scientific and other enquiry, taking us on an amazing voyage across a huge breadth of time and geography. Continue reading →

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