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  • Readux: Story of My Life Edition

    In trying to collect my thoughts about Fangirl, I’ve found it difficult to achieve any sort of literary discussion or even logic. Read more

  • Readux: Through the Looking Glass Edition

    Readux: Through the Looking Glass Edition

    It was the premise of Every Heart a Doorway that enticed me most: the idea of a school–a haven–for children who went through fantastical portals and experienced adventures and magic and danger. I imagined a cast of characters that would be like putting Dorothy Gale, Alice, the Pevensie children, and so many other characters who… Read more

  • Readux: Dramatis Personae Edition

    Readux: Dramatis Personae Edition

    For such a huge book, The Falcon Throne tells quite a tight story. The dramas are quite personal and intense ones–lovers torn apart by others’ political ambition, a young woman trapped in the gilded cage of her rank, an innkeeper protecting her children even from their own pasts. Read more

  • Readux: Me After Me Before You

    Readux: Me After Me Before You

    I’m not usually a contemporary literature type. There’s not enough swords. So I was as surprised as anyone to find that I, epic-fantasy-adventure-time addict that I am, veritably inhaled this book. Read more

  • Readux: Pride & Prejudice & Magic Edition

    Readux: Pride & Prejudice & Magic Edition

    The Glamourist Histories are the first books I’ve ever read that take place in Regency England and are not in same way connected to the Jane Austen canon. So how did this reader gauge these books against the most demanding measuring stick of all time? Read more

  • Reading 2015: A Year in Review

    This year got away on my in strange ways–some enjoyable, some less so, such is life. But 2016 is looking like a pretty neat dive while I only stand on the edge of it. Read more