Well written and very interesting. But whenever I put it down, I didn't have the urge to pick it back up, though I enjoyed while I was reading.
Some of these stories were great, and some of them didn't really do anything for me. This was my first Ali Smith, and I definitely liked it well enough to read more.
I had this idea to spend October reading romance books as my own little protest against “spooky season”, primarily because I'm not really interested in horror.
But then, this was on my shelf...
In the end it didn't feel very “horror-y”, but then I'm not an experienced horror reader. The part of the book that seemed most important to me was the fact that the main characters are African American in the 1950's. The portrayal of how they were treated by white people, including authorities, was the scariest part of the book, as well as absolutely infuriating.
I don't read a lot of non-fiction, and I almost never read biographies or autobiographies. So, I don't really know what to say here.
I finished The Art of Asking just a few minutes ago. It's honest, and touching and heartfelt. It made me cry in places (I'm a dreadful crier when I read). In short I really, really liked it.
I'm and ESL teacher and every autumn I give my students of a certain course the assignment to write a song analysis. This is a struggle for a great many of them, they don't really pay attention to the lyrics when they listen to music. After the deadline for the analysis I play them the youtube clip of the TED-talk and we discuss it. They struggle with this too, but in the end we all get something out of the conversation. Thank you, Amanda Palmer.
It's been quite a while since I read Ancillary Justice. I'm not sure why I waited so long as I loved Justice.
I loved this one too. One of the fascinating ideas is that Breq, when she was Justice of Toren was a colonizer. Seeing how she deals with that when she meets people who have been colonised by the Radchaai gives much food for thought.
This series is very entertaining. In this book we see more of Plenimar when Seregil and Alec are captured by slavers and sold to a Plenimaran alchemist, leading to the creation of a rhekaro.
Ilar i Sontir, Seregil's first lover who betrayed him and got him banished from Aurënen, also shows up, and Phoria is still annoyingly paranoid.
This book was so moving and sad. And also beautiful with some truly fascinating turns of phrase.
I really liked this, although I don't think it was exactly what I expected. I'm not entirely sure what I expected, though. I especially liked the ‘living - not just surviving'-theme, with the symphony, the museum, the newspaper...
University intrigue, city politics, treason and old magic. Of the three Riverside books this would probably be my least favourite. A reason for that may be that I didn’t find a character to care about the way I cared about St Vier in Swordspoint and Katherine in The Privilege of the Sword.
I'm not a big reader of graphic novels, but am starting to explore...I really like this one. It was a lot of fun :) and I really like the characters of Nimona and Blackheart.
Oh, wow. So many great stories! A female Japanese swordfighter on Iceland, wine-making in a future India, clones, AIs an Evil Robot Monkey and the Lady Astronaut of Mars, to mention a few.
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 bought this about when it came out, but never got around to reading it. Possibly because time travel isn't my favourite.
Then a few weeks ago there was a to do about the book on Twitter, and since I was waiting for a book from the library, and this is short, I decided to give it a go.
It's really good, and beautifully written!
All in all a good collection. Some stories were fantastic, while others I didn't like at all.
Caleb's backstory is so sad. I'm glad the comic went all the way up to when he meets Nott.
DNF. I'll probably give it another go someday. It was far too complicated for me to listen to the audiobook - I'm a distracted listener at best.
It's been a long time since I started this series. Usually I tend to not read books by the same author directly after each other. This, is a great series, though, and I thoroughly recommend it.
Interesting take on zombies. I liked the first book in the series better, but this was still good.
I loved The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, so of course I had to read this. I liked it a lot, it was sweet, and there was enough new details and thoughts from Lizzie, that it wasn't just the same again.