Sneaking in with a bit to spare, on a borrowed computer, and one book behind last year's pace I'm finally posting my last review of Cannonball Read 10. This was the Read Harder 2018 task I was looking least forward to, and I managed to push it off until the last possible moment, but at least I am … [Read more]
Get more Nell Scovells!
For a book that explores the difficulties of making it as a writer while female in the 1990s, with all the boys club exclusion and outright sexual harassment that implies, this was a surprisingly fun read. The cover of the book says it all; if you watched broadcast tv in the late 1990s to early … [Read more]
Think if fantasy world Romeo and Juliet had better or absent parents
I made myself a promise: no more starting a new read until I finish the four partially read books on my coffee table. Not counting the occasional graphic novel. At least one of those books has been on that coffee table unfinished for I think a year, maybe a little more. I here review not that book, … [Read more]
“LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?”
Its been quite awhile since I read my last Discworld novel, but I wanted to read Hogfather this year (a goal I will be missing by a few days, but I’ve got it out from the library) and my need to read the various subseries in their orders meant I decided to go back and pick up where I left off with … [Read more]