Date Read: February 6
Author: Susan Palwick
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 5/5
I loved all of the short stories in the collection.
Be happy for us. Think of us dancing.
– All Worlds are Real
All Worlds are Real
The Chessmen
Date Read: February 6
Author: Peter May
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 5/5
The third novel in The Lewis Trilogy, this is an excellent finale for the series. Peter May continues to craft mysteries that are impossible to figure out until the final chapter.
Great fat raindrops spat on his windscreen like tears spilled for the dead.
– The Chessmen
Mongrels
Date Read: February 5
Author: Stephen Graham Jones
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 5/5
An intriguing style of narration, and also an intriguing take on werewolves.
Everything makes sense if you look at it long enough.
– Mongrels
Where the Crawdads Sing
Date Read: February 4
Author: Delia Owens
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 5/5
This novel has such a secretive narrator that even the reader seems to never know the truth.
I wasn’t aware that words could hold so much. I didn’t know a sentence could be so full.
– Where the Crawdads Sing
The Lewis Man
Date Read: February 3
Author: Peter May
Genre: Mystery
Rating: 5/5
The Lewis Man is the sequel to The Blackhouse, and it also takes place on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. I actually liked this book better than the first book in the series. Peter May has a way of creating a mystery that is impossible to guess until the end of the novel, and yet the answer makes perfect sense when it’s revealed.
Faith is the crutch of the weak. You use it to paper over all the contradictions. And you fall back on it to provide easy answers to impossible questions.
– The Lewis Man
The Analects of Confucius
Date Read: February 3
Author: Confucius
This is another book that I read for English, and I enjoyed it more than Nichomachean Ethics.
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Date Read: February 1
Author: John Crowley
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 5/5
This is a particularly interesting book because it is told from the point of view of a crow. It’s interesting to take a step back and think about how life would look like from the point of view of something that isn’t human, and the story of the crow in the novel does it very well.
Stories were the way People lived. Like paths, they could be traveled in any direction, yet always ran from beginning to end.
– Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Best Book of January
And the best book of January is…..The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen!
Any time that I stay up until two in the morning to finish a book, I know that it’s a good book. For my original post, click here.
Parable of the Sower
Date Read: January 30
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 5/5
An excellent post-apocalyptic story.
They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.
– Parable of the Sower
Doomsday Book
Date Read: January 29
Author: Connie Willis
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: 5/5
This is probably my favorite time travel book that I’ve ever read. It manages to convey a sense of hope in even the worst possible situations.
None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one’s never thought of does.
– Doomsday Book
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