Enno Rehling

This book is ambitious, and tries to cram so many things into the story: A trans protagonist, a love for violins, video game music, a faustian bargain, and a space alien crew running a donut shop. I'm still not sure about that last one, but I think it pulls of the rest with aplomb.

A perfect little short story that makes me look at our local little free library in a new way.

I wish I could have read this in the original Spanish, but alas, that's not a language I understand.

The ending was telegraphed in the very first volume, but it was still nice to see. Go Kato!

The Outlaw, another story featuring Gen and Stray Dog, is heart-breaking, and I think it's my favorite in this volume, even if it does not feature Usagi.

It's the classic British whodunit, set in a seaside town, with two elderly ladies taking on the role of the nosy private investigators. They are no Miss Marple, and I feel that this book didn't add anything new to the genre, so I probably won't read any of the others. But if this genre is your jam, then it's competently written, and you'll probably enjoy it.

These Color Specials are too short for my liking, and the stories too simple.

I like a good twist on time travel, and this book is definitely that. Oona jumps through the years of her life, and the book never delves too deeply into the questions of how or why it happens. The story raises many questions: can she change her fate, or is any attempt to do so doomed? Are there multiple stories of her life? How did this start - how could there have already been an Oona who lived the previous year when she does her first jump? Is everything predestined? Do we have free will? In the end, it's left to the readers to find our own answers to these questions, and enjoy the story as we go along. Lots of good music gets a nod, too.

Still getting very emotional reading this book. What a good story.

There isn't much happening here, was my first thought, bit I think that's a little bit the point. Most of this book os happening in the head pf Aza, a teen struggling with OCD. Good portrayal of mental illness, worthy of a John Green novel.

As a big fan of the Wayfarers universe, I am happy to find that Becky Chambers has built this other world. More to love!

This was a nice little read, with two very kind main characters. I can't wait to read more about these two in a sequel.

Even though this book doesn't feature Eleanor West's school for wayward children, it's of course still about a child who goes through a doorway to a magical realm like the others in the series. Regan loves horses, and her portal takes her to a world of centaurs and unicorns, where she tries to avoid her destiny as a hero and savior in favor of a life with a new family.

Nothing much happens in this book, and yet it's wonderful. A variety of alien species are stuck together in a small family-run space motel, and they get along, because by some lucky coincidence, they are the nicest cosmopolitan outsiders that their respective species has to offer.

Becky Chambers' Wayfarers universe has always impressed with its wide range of unusual alien races, from bugs to dinosaurs, and this book gives us a lot of backstory for several of them. My favorite scene was the one where they discuss the phenomenon of cheese, and universally agree that humans are the weirdest. I'm especially thankful for the extended epilogue that brings each individual's story to a satisfying happy end.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is obviously an autobiographical book about a struggling young artist finding her voice. It deals with struggles of eating disorders and loneliness, LGBTQ issues and having to make new friends when the old ones leave you. It's also clearly written for a younger audience than myself :-)

This book hit me more than I expected. John Green at his best.

This story is way more scary than Chernobyl.

This book took a while to grow on me, the way it was with white noise. Going to need to chew on it for a while.

This collection of nearly a thousand pages containing every Gaston comic (or so it claims) took me two months to finish, but it was well worth it.

In the future, when people ask me what it was like working in Silicon Valley, and why I left, I'll be able to point them to this book, which contains a some of the answers. My own time overlaps with the time covered in the book, and I found myself nodding in agreement many times.

Several short stories set in Usagi's Japan. I enjoyed “Showdown” which is a retelling of Kurosawa's “Yojimbo” involving Gen, whose heart is bigger than he lets on, but my favorite was “Kitsune's Tale”, where we get to hear the origin story of Usagi's friend, the clever thief.

Very touching immigration story, excellent artwork. The complete absence of words works very well in support of the feeling of isolation.

A decent sequel. All the exciting world building already happened in the first book, so this one had little left to do. Overall, a typical “second in a trilogy” book.

This book was amazing. I never managed to get into Jonathan Strange, but this book gripped me from the first pages and still hasn't let go. It's impossible to describe what it's about without spoiling it, but it's safe to say that it's a real puzzle box of a book. The puzzle is not just ours to figure out, it turns out our protagonist has memory problems that means he's almost as clueless as the reader. A masterpiece, and I hope it wish the author wins every award it's bound to be nominated for.

You never know what you're going to get with a Jo Walton book, but it's always an interesting idea. I loved this one, maybe not as much as I adored Lent, but definitely up there with my favorite books this year. And there are two more for me to read!

This collection of stories might be my favorite of the Hellboy books I've read. Especially the Humunculus and the Wolves.