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Monday, May 25, 2026

A Good Review For A Change - What Stalks The Deep by T. Kingfisher

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Occasionally, when I’m perusing modern fiction, I start to wonder if I have deeply embedded bigotries that predispose me to dislike the subj...

Reviews: Cinder House, by Freya Marske and The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar

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I bounced off of both of these relatively early. I liked Cinder House for a while, due to its intriguing premises – the protagonist is a hau...
Saturday, May 23, 2026

Review - Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite

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 A mystery. With body swapping. In some kind of steampunk Bridgerton setting. I noped out on page one. There's science fiction, which ha...
Friday, May 22, 2026

I Must Say I'm Really Enjoying the Asian Presence Among the Hugo Nominees

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 I figured out in 2020 that South Korea had gone far beyond us in both cinema and pop music, and that was before the Korean Fried Chicken po...

Reviews - Oathbound by Tracy Deonn; Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee; and Holy Terrors by Margaret Owen

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Everyone provided e-pubs except for Oathbound by Tracy Deonn – that one was a Word document. With a link (Windows Defender: are you sure wan...

Review – They Bloom At Night by Trang Thanh Tran

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Nhung, aka Noon, is a Vietnamese-American kid from a Louisiana shrimp boat family, dealing with a red bloom, which coats her section of coas...

Review – Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

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When I pulled this one up on my Kindle app because I read books on my phone or ipad or pc, it was already at 99%, indicating I already read ...