For the last 100 pages of this book, I was mainly making incoherent noises at @psythor as all the shit kicked off in the book, with the whole arc of the story winding its way to the end. Most of the incoherent noises were either something along the lines of “omfg they’re so adorable” or … Continue reading
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Book review: The Three-Body Problem
Yay! I read a book! I’m currently neck-deep in PhD writing and so haven’t been reading that much outside of that area. However, this weekend I was going to take a break and read something fun. I bought The Three-Body Problem on a wander through Forbidden Planet not that long ago but still hadn’t read … Continue reading
Book review: Cities and Thrones
Cities and Thrones is the sequel to Carrie’ Patel’s The Buried Life and what a sequel! I’ve recently interviewed Carrie Patel for Science Fiction Double Feature, which will be out later this month. The series is steampunk, mystery, revolution, post-future funtimes. I hope that makes sense. It’s hard to describe as a genre, but it … Continue reading
Book review: The Ministry of Nostalgia
What an angry book. No that this is a bad thing. I think there were two chapters that I found the most interesting and fascinating and one that I lost the plot a bit. The first chapter that I really liked was the whole exploration of nostalgia via things like ‘keep calm and carry on’. … Continue reading
Book review: Herding Hemingway’s cats
I think if I needed to pick a single word to describe Kat Arney’s first (and fabulous) book on how genes work, it would be irreverent. And I mean that in the best possible way. Full disclosure, I know Kat and have brewed beer with her. To be fair, this is so far a one-off … Continue reading
Book review: Station Eleven
So, I’m going to start off with a slightly annoyed tangent. When in Toronto at the beginning of this month, we went to a bookstore. I was perusing the science fiction novels and decided I wanted something written by a woman. Nothing on the shelf jumped out (there were the usual familiar names) and so … Continue reading
My top reads from 2016
So out of my utter annoyance from not being able to find Station Eleven in the science fiction section of a bookstore, I decided that I wouldn’t read any science fiction or fantasy novels in 2016 that were written by white men. That meant that I could read any books by women, or books by … Continue reading
Giving up on The Luminaries
I stopped reading this ‘for a break’ after finishing part one but I’m not going to kid myself, I’m not going to read the rest. There are many things I don’t like about it. I think historical novels are fine but I think there’s just a bit too much casual racism and sexism for me … Continue reading
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Book review: Supergods
I think I picked up this book by Grant Morrison at the comics exhibition at the British Museum. I have read a few comics by Morrison, like Joe the Barbarian and All Star Superman. I enjoyed both. So in the post-script to the paperback edition, he describes Supergods as a subjective history. Ah ha ha … Continue reading
Book review: The Summer Book
I bought this book while I’m Finland, it was written by Tove Jansson of Moomin fame. It is hailed as a modern classic in Scandinavia, reads the jacket. There isn’t really a linear story, it is a series of events that happen on island. The two main characters are a young child, Sophia, and her … Continue reading
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