Rated 1984 8/10
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Rated This World Our Hell 8/10
Good, but I wished it was longer.
Have you ever listened to audiobooks?
Audiobook Appreciation Month takes place every June, celebrating the accessibility, educational value, and storytelling magic of listening to books.
Established by the Audio Publishers Association in 1998.
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Don Quixote is often cited as the first modern #novel - a book about a man who reads so much he starts living inside stories.
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Rated The War Master: The Master of Callous 8/10
Properly unsettling, as a good Master story should be, though I do wish there was a bit more of him in it.
Finished reading That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
Rated Doctor Who: The Oseidon Adventure 6/10
Not bad. Enjoyed having the Master around to ham around with the Doctor.
Rated Torchwood: The Grey Mare 10/10
<div>A good spooky Christmas story with Ianto. Have yet to go wrong with a Ianto-centered Torchwood story.</div>
Rated Torchwood: The Crown 10/10
<div>I very much enjoy the Queen Victoria installments of Torchwood. This is a good spooky Christmas Eve story.</div>
Rated Torchwood: The Victorian Age 10/10
Captain Jack and Queen Victoria chasing a monster through London? A good time for me.
Rated Torchwood: Uncanny Valley 8/10
Jack Harkness has hate-sex with a queer robot designed to look like a well-known billionaire? Yes, this sounds like Torchwood.
Orwell once explained his mission very simply: he wrote because there was “some lie” he wanted to expose and “some fact” he wanted people to see.
Happy Birthday George Orwell!
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Wants to read The Organ Grinders
Rated Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017 4/10
<div>Though I appreciate what this mag is trying to do in terms of prioritizing different voices in fantasy writing, unfortunately it doesn't bring much that I enjoyed. I liked a few things in here well enough (the Santería poem the most, maybe), but groaned at a LOT of the stories. Overcooked prose, badly in need of trimming, bangs out a thesaurus' most "whimsical" adjectives when a simpler approach would do. One interview was better than the other.<br><br>Just not for me, but at least it wasn't all bad. And it was short. I'm sure other issues are better, but I'm not in a hurry to find out.</div>
"Write the truest sentence that you know."
That simple advice guided Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) throughout his life. A reporter, soldier, traveler, Nobel Prize winner, and master storyteller, he transformed real-life adventure into timeless literature.
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Rated They Came to Baghdad 6/10
Rated Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls 10/10
Rated Upright Women Wanted 6/10
<div>This sounds like a backhanded compliment, and maybe it is a little, but I would have liked this better watching it than reading it, I think. The premise is good, though a bit "a metaphor for our possible future!" If this is aimed at older teen readers, then that's ok, but the writing style wasn't for me. We've got "side-long smiles" and "mops" and "shocks" of hair and other well-worn descriptors that can be twee when paired with the affected "Out West" cowgirl dialect. That said, it's a short book, a good premise, and always nice to have queer characters in a Western. Just not my fav. Ymmv!<br><br>Regarding the "diverse characters" question Storygraph has, yes there are mostly queer characters in this book (again, great!), but as far as I could tell, most of the characters are white ladies. In the Southwest US. So. </div>