Rated Doctor Who: The Switching 8/10
I wished it WASN'T a Short Trip! I wanted more! But I very much enjoy Simon Guerrier's stories, and I always like Doctor/Master stories, so this was a good time.
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Finished reading Yoke of Stars
Finished reading The Poppy War
Rated Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold 8/10
Felt like a Silmarillion of Greek mythology for people in a hurry. Felt slow paced at certain stories but enjoyable nonetheless.
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Finished reading Babel
Finished reading A Wrinkle in Time
Finished reading The Unspoken Name
Rated Doctor Who: The Time Machine 8/10
A really good wrap-up. And Jenna Coleman is a great narrator.
Finished reading Ancillary Justice
Finished reading Ancillary Sword
Rated Doctor Who - The Vault: Treasures from the First 50 Years 10/10
Really great in a nuts-and-bolts, behind the scenes sort of way. This is not the book you want if you need detailed descriptions of every episode, but this is perfect for the overarching details and almost everything that has gone into making the show over the past 50 years. I could've used a little bit more on the Big Finish productions, since the Eighth Doctor content is so scant, but by the time this book was in production, I don't think they'd even made the audios canon yet through <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo">"Night of The Doctor."</a> But that's a small quibble because I am so Team Eighth Doctor. Otherwise, excellent stuff and worth the money for hopeless obsessives like myself.
Finished reading The Three-Body Problem
Rated The Confessions of Dorian Gray: Isolation 6/10
An interesting, short one-off for these interesting times.
Finished reading Provenance
Rated Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume 1 10/10
This was so great. As great as the best DoctorDonna TV episodes. I love that she calls him on his shit, and I love the great enthusiasm of their stories. The behind the scenes bits are also quite amusing.
Finished reading Revenant Gun
Finished reading Phoenix Extravagant
Rated Wondermond 8/10
Finished reading Hexarchate Stories
Wants to read In Darkness, Shadows Breathe
The trouble with reading an excellent, supremely funny book is that I could probably read the whole thing aloud to passerby (though some of it not while small, parroting children are present), and as such, I could flip open just about any page and excerpt it here. Shukert never falls into the navel-gazing, “look how important and witty I am” trap that other memorists might — she is who she is, and that’s how she writes. It’s refreshing, having an author talk about both good times and also the most embarrassing, since any good writer knows that the humiliating stuff is really just more writing fodder.<br><br><br>This is not a group-hug, Elizabeth Gilbert-style memoir, and the world is better for it.<br><br><br>(Full review can be found at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/09/everything-is-going-to-be-great-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Finished reading Loki's Ring