Because I care about y’all and I do not want you to leap into one of Diana Wynne Jones’s books not knowing what to expect, I have hereby decided to construct a list of her books that says what world they are set in and what they are about. And, since I love Diana Wynne Jones, and I find it difficult not to compliment her extravagantly every time I say her name, I shall also say one thing about each of her books that charms me and pleases my heart. My Most Favorite One Fire and Hemlock The world it…
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December White is for Magic, Laurie faria Stolarz Blue is for Nightmares, Laurie faria Stolarz Sisterhood Interrupted, Deborah Siegel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, E. Lockhart Beau Geste, P.C. Wren The Siege of Krishnapur, J.G. Farrell The Possessed, Elif Batuman After the Falls, Catherine Gildiner The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton November The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O’Farrell The Sirens of Baghdad, Yasmin Khadra The War That Killed Achilles, Caroline Alexander Old School, Tobias Wolff The Sundial, Shirley Jackson Three Empires on the Nile: Egypt 1869-1899, Dominic Green Contested Will, James Shapiro The…
Leave a CommentA Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch The End of Everything, Megan Abbott Reading Angel: The TV Spin-Off with a Soul, ed. Stacey Abbott The Husbands and Wives Club, Laurie J. Abraham American Furies, Sasha Abramsky The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd Thames: Sacred River, Peter Ackroyd The Girl in a Swing, Richard Adams The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison Americanah, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Runaways, Brian Vaughn and Adrian Adolpha The Great Night, Chris Adrian River of Darkness, Rennie Airth Little Women, Louisa May Alcott The War That Killed Achilles,…
3 CommentsThe older I get, the more cynical I become about the consciences of the very rich. Used to be when fictional rich people were cartoonishly evil, I would think it was unrealistic. Now I’m like, no, actually, that sounds right. Rich people probably do poison each other at parties for shits and giggles. Tripping Arcadia had my number from the beginning by telling me in the introduction that a whole bunch of amoral rich people were probably going to die. Like, way to reel me in, book! Not just telling me the end before I read the middle, but promising…
Leave a CommentWell, look. I did not manage to get this podcast edited and release in January. As it’s going to probably be our second-to-last podcast (more to come on that), I was truly hoping to have it out earlier in the year, but then life got in the way, and I had to settle for having it out before the Super Bowl. (Bengals!!!!) We chatted about alllllllll the books we acquired over the holiday break, discuss some superlatives in our 2021 reading years, and then the rest of the podcast is just FISH FACTS. Which is honestly very on brand for…
Leave a CommentThe weirdest thing about writing this post was looking back at my reading spreadsheet for this year and going “Wait, that was this year?” In some cases, I was so sure I’d read the book in a prior year that I went and checked its publication date online to see if I was losing my mind. Result: I was! The feeling that 2021 passed by in a morbid, exhausting flash and also lasted for two thousand and twenty-one years would be notable were it not for the fact that all of the past few years have felt that way. At…
1 CommentThe mercenary librarians are back in The Devil You Know, and they’re just as librarian as before! If possible even more librarian, insofar as there are multiple scenes of scanning books so the books will be shareable to a wider group of people. Y’all may remember me screeching and carrying on about the first book in this series, Deal with the Devil, and how gosh-darn fun it was despite being about a dystopian future in which a few scrappy and independent-minded escapees of government torture banded together to carve out a small space for happiness and community. Well, this is…
Leave a CommentAfter a fallow period of YA reading, I’ve been absolutely tearing through new YA books this October. Hot take, YA is really good right now! Sometimes when I think about my own youth and the, like, three bookshelves worth of YA books my library had back then, and half of them were Lurlene McDaniel, and that was a good library system, I just feel very very happy that the youth of today have such an amazing profusion of great books. At least something is going right for the youths! The rest of the world is chaos and disaster but they…
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