Gracielis

I really liked this. Jane and Beast are fascinating characters and the story's fast paced and exciting.

Cute and lighthearted.

Very interesting second part. And Zachary Quinto is a fantastic narrator.

The two parallell storylines, one in the past, and one now is not my favourite trope. I did however enjoy both storylines in Blitz, so the book was very enjoyable.

I liked the linguistics part, being a language nerd. But I didn't like the story very much.

I read this in 2006. I remembered very little. This was really good, though bleak and painful. I challenge anyone to read this and then keep talking about the glory of war.

It moves continents from the first one and most of the characters are new. I miss many of the characters from Gardens of the Moon, but there are many interesting characters here too. Mappo & Icarium, Duiker, Heboric, Felisin, Coltaine and many more.

For the life of me I can't remember if I ever read Memories of Ice...

I've always found Bletchley Park fascinating, though to be honest I don't know that much about it.

The story bounces between following three women's lives and work during WW2 at BP and a storyline that happens a few years after the war. For most of the book I wasn't really interested in the after the war part. At the very end that one gets pretty interesting, though.

This was pretty cute.

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.

Först of all, if you do not enjoy stories with explicit sex, stay away from this book.

I found this as “included” on audible, and I've been meaning to read it for years. I really enjoyed it. It is complex, lots of court intrigue and drama. And I really enjoyed the language, there is a rhythm and a melody to it that is a little old-fashioned perhaps, and quite ornate, and rather beautiful.

There is a section that I enjoyed a less, but overall I loved it.

I've mostly read fluff and rereads for the last 6 months. There were circumstances and I needed that. Now I'm slowly getting ready to read more substantial things.

I really liked this book. I connected with Helen and Mirta from the start, Elizabeth took a little longer. The book takes place during the depression and the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. It doesn't shy away from the problems and difficulties, but it's not too graphic.

I was a little unsure about the star rating, but I think I'll go with 5 stars.

”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.

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.

My first ever Star Wars book. I audiobooked it. It may have been me, but I found it difficult to focus on. Maybe I should read it on paper?

I think I liked this one even better than The Ghosts of Sherwood. They were both very entertaining.

I love Rat Queens and when I saw that Wiebe was involved with this I was intrigued. So far I don't like it quite as much as Rat Queens, but I want to keep reading this to see where it goes.

Things have come a long way since Fated. I find myself quite sad for Alex and Luna. And I definitely do not trust neither Morden nor Drakh.

This series is exciting and fast-paced, and I now only have one more book to read and then it's over.

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.

As I grow older I'm fascinated by witches. The idea that witches were women who knew more, wanted more, refused to bend, to make themselves smaller.

This is exactly such a story. About three witches, and so much more. The power of language, of story, of rhyme. Three sisters with amazing names: Beatrice Belladonna, Agnes Amaranth and James Juniper.

It's been a long wait...

Fun and cute.

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.

I grew up in a small town. So small, in fact, that there was no bookstore.

So, when The Wheel of Time came out, it was the library, or nothing. But, the books were a hit and so there were like 30 people on queue for every part. I read the first 2 or 3 (Swedish translation where every book was divided into 2) and then decided to give up. It wasn't worth the waiting. I was about 17 I'd guess, and it was the mid 90s.

I never picked them back up. Then the other week I wanted to buy a long audiobook for my last credit and decided on The Eye of the World. Partially influenced, I'm sure, by the fact that there is a TV-show coming. I am absolutely SHOCKED by how much of it I actually remember!

And, I enjoyed it quite a lot!

This was fun, I really liked Robin and Marian's children.

This was very interesting.