Gracielis

Cute and lighthearted.

I bought this when it was pretty new and didn't get around to it.

I finally did. I really liked it! It takes place during an election in a world wide (almost) micro-democracy. There are rumors of someone trying to sabotage the election, and then all sorts of things go wrong.

It was exciting and interesting and I liked many of the characters: Ken, Mishima, Roz... I'm definitely reading parts 2 & 3.

I have a soft spot for the classic monster tales. Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Dracula etc.

So this book was great fun to read - it was exciting and fun and I'm looking forward to continuing the series.

This was really good. I especially liked the atmosphere. The book is quite short, well written and interesting. I kind of wanted some more of what happened later.

I'm interested to read more by Sarah Moss.

Powerful and upsetting.

For me the first 50-60% were pretty interesting, though I wasn't really connecting with the characters.

The ending didn't work as well for me. It seemed that things went from patriarchy to “men have to have a female guardian” super-fast, and there was so violence. Which is fine, but I was more interested in the cultural and political development.

An interesting start to a new series. I'm a big fan of the Alex Verus series, so I was very interested to read Jacka's new book.

The world is fascinating and liked Stephen well enough. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.

Favourite character: Hobbes the cat.
Oh, and I listened to the audiobook and really liked the narrator.

I read the English translation, for work.

Pretty cute, though the writing style annoyed me at times. To be fair the pairings in the sequels seem more interesting to me, so I'll probably keep reading the series.

“I am as true as anything you have ever seen. A dying child, abandoned by the world. And I say this: there is nothing truer. Nothing.
Flee from me if you can. I promise I will haunt you.”

Well, I'm finally done with the Book of the Fallen. It's been...really something.

So many parts that really spoke to me, so many characters to remember, like Fiddler and Hedge, Hellian, the Paran siblings to mention a few. And the children's snake...heartbreaking...

Onwards toward Ian C Esslemont.

“‘Will you all die in the name of love?' The question seemed torn from something inside him.
‘If die we must, what better reason?'”

Cute , funny and a bit silly, this has kept me company while doing chores, organizing my books and more. It was pretty good company.

A pretty charming fairy tale retelling. I really liked the characters in the Harton school, and Lady Cordelia made a devious villain.

I'm sick, so I spent the weekend listening to this.

A fun, fast-paced read. Reading the series in chronological, rather than publication order this is the first book where Miles is the main character. He's one of those characters with boundless energy and enthusiasm who, although he is very intelligent, manages to get into quite a lot of trouble because he doesn't really think things through. Oh well, he's only about 17 years old in this...

I really enjoyed this book. Am looking forward to the next one.

A nice little collection of short stories. I really like Bradbury's use of language.

I think the stories I liked best from this one were: The Next in Line, The Lake, The Emissary, Jack-in-the-Box, The Wind, There Was an Old Woman, and The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone.

All I want to do right now is read short stories and this collection is a large part of the reason why.

This is a fantastic collection, and I loved so many of the stories! There are, I think 15 stories in the collection. Usually when I read a collection I put a post it in it and write down the titles of the stories I love. My post it has 12 titles on it...

State Change, The Perfect Match, Good Hunting, The Literomancer, The Regular, The Paper Menagerie, The Waves, Mono No Aware, All the Flavors, A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel, The Litigation Master and the Monkey King, The Man Who Ended History: a Documentary.

For me the collection was uneven, and the stories fall inte two categories: stories I loved, and stories that were fine. The collection is well worth the read, though.

The stories I loved were: Among the Thorns, Phosphorus, Emma Goldman Takes Tea with the Baba Yaga, Lily Glass, and Burning Girls.

I've heard it described as low stakes high fantasy. Pretty cute, but perhaps a little too low stakes for me, personally.

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!

I really should be reading Malazan. My pattern has been one Malazan book, followed by something else. But, I'm a teacher, and it's grading season. And after readin Dust of Dreams followed by Women Talking I needed an easy action packed read.

I really like Kate, and I'm considering reading more like this, at least until grading season is over.

I had a hard time getting into this one, I was impatient with the bickering of the women. But as the book went on and I got to know them better I also started caring more about them.

This is a hard read, because of the subject matter.

I was born and raised in Sweden, so these stories are not new to me. Gaiman's version is well written, but doesn't really bring anything new to the table.

Well, I actually saw the play, by our small local English theatre company, starring Susan Akintomide and Lotti Brogan.

I'm not really interested in sports, but the play was great, and the acting was better

I starter reading this in June, but found it very difficult to get through. Turns out the text is very small and I needed reading glasses. I now have them, and can read the text without problem.

My biggest impression of this book is that I despise David. He cheats on his girlfriend with Giovanni, then cheats on Giovanni with a girl he doesn't even like, and hurts all three in the process.

I wasn't expecting a happy ending, of course, but I also wasn't expecting the main character to be so horrible.

Read for work.