I liked this one as much as I liked Dragonfly in Amber and Drums of Autumn. A definite improvement over the last several books, although I did enjoy #7 as well, if not quite as much. I’m officially caught up on this series now, and that feels weird! These books are so long, and they’re still not done! Not even going to try and sum up what happened in this book. It was a lot. There was a lot of drama, but unlike in past […]
Do Every Stupid Thing that Makes You Feel Alive
The Kristin Lavransdatter books tell the story of the life of Kristin Lavransdatter, a Norwegian woman living in the 14th century. I read historical fiction only very rarely, and a series about a Norwegian housewife in the Middle Ages wouldn’t normally be something that would be very high on my TBR list. I chose these because at some point in the last year, I was reading an article which had a short quote from one of the books. I can’t remember the quote or the […]
The Ballad of the Reluctant Hero
I have always loved ancient myths, I read every book of myths from every single part of the world I could get my hands on as a kid. Being that I grew up in the Western World this mostly meant Greek Myths. While I could find a couple Chinese, and Korean, and Indian myth books in my local libraries, and there were several on Norse and Celtic mythology as well, all of these were far outnumbered by the books of Greek and Roman myths and […]
Their names written on water. Or scorched into the earth. Or atomized into the air. Legion.
CBR10Bingo: This Is The End (BINGO!) Have you ever read a book that you hated to put down but also hated to keep reading because you couldn’t bear the thought of reaching the end? That’s how I felt reading Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, the companion to her brilliant Life After Life. Unlike Ursula in Life After Life, her younger brother Teddy only gets one shot at life. He still becomes a bomber pilot during World War II, still gets shot down over Germany, […]