This has been a less busy week, thankfully, and I’ve got some work done on tackling my backlog — including an epic sweep removing about 70 books from the backlog that I’m no longer interested in, or where I didn’t enjoy the first book of a series, etc. I really should get back to work again, though, because my next deadline is approaching fast…
Oh well, books first!
Received to review:
I’ve been interested in this for a while, particularly since my mother actually writes to Yoon Ha Lee regularly, and I’ve read The Fox’s Tower and enjoyed the stories in it.
Books bought this week:
I wasn’t 100% in love with The Sin-Eater’s Daughter, but I love the covers of these books and I’m curious enough… Kameron Hurley’s The Geek Feminist Revolution is obviously going to be awesome, though I don’t know how much new content it contains (since I’ve read We Have Always Fought). Aaaand the Max Gladstone means I have all the books so far, until the next one is out.
Reading wise, it’s been a relatively light week. The M.C. Beaton books aren’t even that great, but they were just the right brain candy for me at the time.
Books finished this week:
Reviews posted this week:
–Tam Lin, by Pamela Dean. It took me a long time to really get into this, and then suddenly at 85% it made things work. Also, love the setting. 4/5 stars
–Spider-Woman: Spider-Verse, by Dennis Hopeless and Greg Land. Fun enough, and if you didn’t bother with Spider-verse in general, this does give you some info. Involves a lot of the Spider-ladies! 3/5 stars
–The Sudden Appearance of Hope, by Claire North. A very interesting one-sentence idea (“what if nobody could ever remember you?”) combined with a technology thriller type plot. 4/5 stars
–The Queen of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner. More complex than the first book, The Thief, this pushes the characters we’ve already been introduced them and develops them beyond the thumbnail sketches we had before. It was a reread, so maybe no surprise I loved it. 5/5 stars
–Hawkeye: Rio Bravo, by Matt Fraction and David Aja. This run of Hawkeye has been fun, and I appreciate a lot about it, but I think the storytelling style wasn’t ideal for me. It relied a lot on the art, and I am not a visual person. 3/5 stars
–Tales from Earthsea, by Ursula Le Guin. My main comment on this one is that you really need to read ‘Dragonfly’ to understand The Other Wind. 4/5 stars
–Flashback Friday: Debatable Space, by Philip Palmer. Fun and compulsive read, even though it didn’t seem like it would be my thing at all. 4/5 stars
Other posts:
–Top Ten Beach Reads. Except I was difficult about the theme, because I don’t do “beach reads”.
It does feel good to reduce the pile doesn’t it…so you can grab another pile with lesser guilt! *grins* Have a good booky week and I’ll be back posting my STS next week.
Ha, yes… though I’m trying so hard to behave myself!
Max Gladstone is one of those authors I’m hoping to catch up with over the summer, if I can keep the review pile in check.
I did enjoy the first book, but I need to reread it. And I love aaaaall the covers.
I love the cover of The Sleeping Prince! The covers of both books in that series are so great. Sadly I didn’t love book one as well, so I didn’t continue with the series! But hopefully you love The Sleeping Prince – and all of your new books!
Have a fabulous weekend, Nikki. 🙂
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Fingers crossed — I wasn’t overwhelmed with the first book, but oh, such pretty covers. Thanks for dropping by!
I’m super interested in what you think about the Diane Duane series and oooh Max Gladstone! I need to catch up to those books so much.
I was tempted by the Kameron Hurley book, but I’ve read that essay too, so I wavered. If it does have new material, then I might pick it up.
I… was not a big fan of Diane Duane. Wrong time, maybe? I liked The Door into Fire, but the Young Wizards books… nah.
Well, it definitely has more that just that one essay! But I’ve read a whole collection with that as the title essay, so… we’ll see.
I just finished Ninefox Gambit. It was very unexpected! Really cool premise, I’m really curious to see what you’ll make of it.
I’ve been hearing good things! Looking forward to it.