Since I liked the Wee Free Men, I thought I would continue with Tiffany Achings adventures with the Nac Mac Feegle.

A Hat Full of Sky is about Tiffany as she begins her training in witchery. Unfortunate;y she's beeing hunted by something unpleasant and of course the Nac Mac Feegle have to try to rescue her. Unfortunately the Pictsie way of trying ( Read more... )

I picked this up because I thought that the pretense sounded interesting. A library full of working magical items? I am so there.

So the story is about Elizabeth, a new student page at the New York Circulating Material Repository. There are some particular esoteric collections of stuff from the descendants of the Brothers Grimm, among others (don't ( Read more... )

In the effort to break away from the overwhelming US/European cultural trend that runs rampant through so much of fantasy, I decided to start expanding my reading to a more diverse set of authors. I decided to start with Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor.

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It should be noted that some of the first fantasy stories I ever read fell quite solidly into the sword and sorcery sub-genre. I remember liking them and then starting to move towards other things. Anyway, it's been a while since I found a sword and sorcery story I truly delighted in reading and Theft of Swords reminded me of everything I love ( Read more... )

This is one of those times where I have to kick myself a little for not picking a book sooner.

I had heard about the zombies and airships and politely went “Okay, that sounds interesting” and would then commence reading something else. If someone had mentioned that there was an awesome middle aged mother who sets off to rescue her son, I MIGHT HAVE ( Read more... )

I've developed a taste for steampunk in the past year or so and find I enjoy it a lot. So naturally when someone hands me a steampunk novel, I'm frequently quite happy about it (with some caveats, of course).

( A little spy versus spy to liven things up. )

I don't really have any cute stories about why I picked The House of Discarded Dreams
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 In my general pack-rat type way, I picked up The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett. I really needed something lighter that the collection of novellas I'd been reading before and this looked like it would fit the part quite nicely.

( What's 6 inches tall and can stop a horse with his face? )

I'm going to take this time to remind my lovely readers as to why I generally tend to not read urban fantasy. There isn't a diversity of plots. There isn't a diversity of character tropes going on. I get bored very easily. However, I've a sibling who is a connoisseur of this particular fantasy sub genre who kept pestering me to read this. Since the ( Read more... )

Frequent readers here will know that I like to try out books I've never heard of. Since steampunk-ish type things have been my sub-genre du jour, I thought I would try out the Bookman by Lavie Tidhar.

( Lizards and androids and bookworms, oh my! )