I still have the last two books in the Lymond Chronicles to review, and I’ve remembered that I mentioned but never properly reviewed Love in the Blitz.

• Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff: Sequel to Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning (which means Aurora Ending would have fitted the pattern better).

After the first two books, I’d ( Read more... )

Books I read in August and September -- retellings, fandomy romances (baking shows count as fandomy, right?) and young adult.

• Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price: Lizzie Bennet wants to convince to her father that he should officially hire her to work at his law firm, Longborn & Sons. She decides to do this by proving that a recently-accused ( Read more... )

It’s possible I’ll read something else historical in the remaining ten days of winter. It’s also possible that wintry weather will continue into September. So not necessarily an all-exhaustive round-up.

• Fletchers End (1962) by D.E. Stevenson: The sequel is less focused and not quite as delightful as Bel Lamington, but I still liked it. It ( Read more... )

I have *counts* 23 books I haven’t reviewed and I am determined to get through at least 20 of them before the weekend ends.

(Oh, now I see now how I’ve managed to read more books than I sometimes do! And it’s not just that I read some of these over Easter, or that others were short, or that I took a few days off work this last week when I had a cold ( Read more... )

It had been over three months since I'd last read a bunch of contemporary romance, and it was the end of term. Upon reflection, my recent reading choices make so much sense...

In other thoughts, I wish there was some way to turn off Kindle's auto hyphenation of words. I find it unnecessary and sometimes actively unhelpful, forcing me to go back to ( Read more... )

That applies to three things I’ve watched lately.

(Four, if one includes the film adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader -- I had successfully managed to avoid seeing what Hollywood did to this childhood favourite until recently, when I spent an hour in the same room as some children who were watching it. My chief impressions were that the ( Read more... )

I set myself some reading goals for the rest of the year -- namely, to finish any books I’ve already started. But it seems those unfinished books just weren’t the right genres. Because here I am, having read a bunch of other things instead!

Oh well, there’s still time. The year isn’t quite over.

• The Lonely Hearts Dog Walkers by Sheila Norton: ( Read more... )

But first, some preamble:

Sometimes, it feels like the internet has a tendency to assume that everyone reading is from the US.

I’m finding it hard to distill all my thoughts into something concise and accurate, but I can’t fault people for making this assumption. Statistically speaking, people in most English-speaking internet spaces are going to be ( Read more... )

Out of all the books I’ve read this year, my favourite is one I read back in September. I stayed up nearly all night reading it; I reread it at least twice in the following weeks and this weekend I reread it again. The last time I liked a book this much was March last year, when I read Possession.

• From All False Doctrine by Alice Degan: The cover ( Read more... )

That title might be a bit of a stretch but I like alliteration.

• Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade: April and Marcus are both very careful to keep their fandom separate from their professional lives. April wants to avoid negative comments from colleagues about her Gods of the Gates fanfiction and from fandom friends about her weight. Marcus, a Gods of ( Read more... )