Two things on this brutally cold Saturday:

1. Here's a great post pointing out that Finn is the Zuko of TFA; Kylo Ren is the Azula. (though as
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So, thanks to the kindness of an unnamed benefactor, I was able to read The FitzOsbornes at War, the third book of Michelle Cooper's Montmaray Journals trilogy, and ZOMG SO GOOD. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.


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Yesterday on my train ride home, I finished Galore by Michael Crummey, which is about six (I think?) generations of fishermen in a hardscrabble Newfoundland town; it covers the Devine & Sellers families from the Napoleonic Wars through WWI. I would categorize it as magic realism - it begins when a whale beached on the shore is cut open and a still- ( Read more... )