Gracielis

I always love returning to Phryne, she's such a character. In this one she deals with the murder of a painter of fairies and the absence of her lover.

Still sick, still listening to light reads.

This is probably my favourite book from this series...

I'm sick, and decided to listen to something light.

I wasn't very impressed with this one when I originally read it. A few weeks ago I found a bunch of this series as temporarily included on audible, so I dug it out to give another chance.

There are some interesting threads, but the characters are pretty dull. Cal is the most annoying teenage brat.

I found this series for free on audible, and it's cute enough to listen to while walking, cooking etc.

This was such a fun read! I really liked the first book, and I think I liked this even better.

The Green Rider messengers are a fantastic backdrop for the story, and I'm quite invested in them and some of the other characters. Finding out more about the history of Sacoridia and the Green Riders' history alongside Karigan was interesting, and mixed well with what was going on in the present.

I'm looking forward to reading more books in the series.

Things have changed a lot for Alex since Fated. There are things I miss about the earlier books, but the series is still compelling.

I'm experimenting with audio books. They don't usually work very well for me, but I'm starting with re-reads of fun & easy reads and we'll see where I go from there.

”Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context”

I had heard that this book would go to a different place than the first four, so I was prepared for that, though I wasn't sure I would like it. I did like it quite a lot. We met Trull Sengar in the last book, and I wasn't that interested in him. But this book does deepen his character and I now find him quite compelling.

Other interesting characters were Udinaas, Seren Pedac, Iron Bars and Corlo. My favourite characters this time around though were probably Brys Beddict, and especially Tehol Beddict and Bugg.

Last summer I really enjoyed listening to The Eye of the World. So, I got this. I've been trying to get through it since then.

My biggest problem was that so many characters, especially the boys, acted like complete idiots for so much of the book.

The ending was intriguing, though. So, I'll probably continue. Some day.

”we are Bloodsworn, bound to one another. Stand or fall, we are sworn to each other. That is our strength”

I enjoyed this book so much! The characters, the Norse world, the stories. I've always been fascinated by the Vikings, though I don't know as much about them as I would wish.

And, as a Swedish person it was fascinating to see the words and names that I could trace to Norse languages (not that I'm an expert in any sense of the word), and trying to figure out why it's vaesen, but Sälla, Frøya but Störr.

I will definitely be reading more by John Gwynne.

This took me so long to read because I haven't really had the energy to read much at home. It's fantastic, though.

I so wanted to like this poetry collection, but I didn't.

Another fantastic installment of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. I did not like quite as much as Memories of Ice, but it's not far behind.

A thought on Karsa Orlong: I had heard of him before I read the book, and had heard from several people for whom he was a favourite character. I did not understand why at the beginning of the book. He seemed fairly despicable. However, his journey was fascinating, and he learned a lot.

”When I began this journey, I was young. I believed in one thing. I believed in glory. I know now, ‘Siballe that glory is nothing. Nothing. This is what I now understand.”
“What else do you now understand, Karsa Orlong?”
“Not much. Just one other thing. The same cannot be said for mercy.”

Read for work.

Read for work.

I read this a few years ago, when I read Word Puppets, which is a great short story collection.

Recently I read The Calculating Stars, and realized I didn't remember this story very well and decided to reread it. Now knowing Elma and Nathaniel, it made me cry.

Another one down in my project to increase my poetry reading. There were both poems that ‘spoke to me' and those that did not in this anthology. But it seems to be an important collection and I'm very happy to have read it.

“Do you remember where you were when the Meteor hit? I've never understood why people phrase it as a question, because of course you remember.”

Oh, wow. I loved this book! The combination of space program and the 1950s was fascinating. I loved Elma and Nathaniel, and many of the other women computers, pilots and trainee astronauts. I really didn't like Parker.

Mary Robinette Kowal is one of my favourite authors and this is one of her best, in my opinion.

Another part of my project to become a “better” poetry reader. This is probably my favourite poetry collection since I started the project.

Of course, I have read and greatly appreciated several of Atwood's novels before, but this was the first time reading her poetry.

Revisited a childhood favourite. I never fell in love with Anne of Green Gables, but I read this several times.

”If you can, dear friends, do not live through a siege.”

This book is creepy, scary, upsetting, compelling and so, so good - but not for the faint of heart.

I read Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates around 2006. I can't for the life of me remember if I also read Memories of Ice back then, but the book looked entirely untouched when I grabbed it from the shelf, so I guess not.

I am definitely going to continue the series.

So, this is the second retelling of Sleeping Beauty I've read this year. They are very different in many ways, but both gave Sleeping Beauty some much needed agency.

Caleb's backstory is so sad. I'm glad the comic went all the way up to when he meets Nott.