Wants to read These Deathless Shores
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Rated Doctor Who: Time War Uncharted, Vol. 1: Reflections 8/10
<div>I suffered slightly by jumping in to this portion of the Time War, having not heard the previous installments with the Eighth Doctor, but it was easy enough to get the lay of the land. I'm glad to hear more from the Doctor's great-grandson, Alex (played by Paul McGann's son, Sonny).</div>
Rated Electric Literature no. 1 8/10
(Actually the paperback cover I have is the one that's shown on the Kindle edition, but...)
Rated Emergency Skin 8/10
I enjoy it when someone can pull off second person POV well.
Wants to read The Book Censor's Library
Wants to read Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
Wants to read To Ride a Rising Storm
Wants to read Wake of Vultures
Wants to read Seed to Harvest
Much like the actual military, this tale of soldiers vying for dominance was a lot of "hurry up and wait." It took until the second half of the story for things to kick off, and once they did, there was a level of violence that is quite unlike a regular DW story, a distinct relishing in the villains' cruelty at times. Also, I did not care for the way Richards describes the women, of which there are very few. Even in times of stress or action, their bodies are described with cheap, schoolboy longing. I didn't wholly dislike the book overall, but it was definitely one of the weaker Doctor Who novels I've read.
Rated Electric Literature No. 5 10/10
From the first paragraph of Kevin Brockmeier's "A Fable For the Living" until the last line of Lynne Tillman's "The Original Impulse," I remained so glad that I'd purchased a subscription to the quarterly publication.<br><br><i>Electric Literature No. 5</i> is a fantastic collection, with all five stories bleeding into one another to make a cohesive whole. Each one deals with people trying to fill some void in their life, some unspeakable absence, even when their methods for doing so are unhealthy. These are flawed, interesting individuals, and I couldn't ask for more in a collection of short stories. I flew through this slim volume, and I am eager to read <i>No. 6</i> when it arrives in my mailbox.<br><br><i>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/06/electric-literature-no-5-stories-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)</i>
Wants to read Queen of the Conquered
Rated Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day 2024 8/10
<div>Really good start to a new Doctor's comic run.</div>
Wants to read The Night and Its Moon
Rated Fiennders Keepers 8/10
I waffled a bit between three stars or four because there are too many damn characters to keep track of and sometimes the writing is bogged down in superfluous detail, but I kinda get that was part of the point -- that our histories are complex, and the English class system could really muck things up for people.<br><br>You can tell this is a first novel -- though it was released as Jean Marsh's second, she wrote this one first. Big ambition, sometimes shaky in execution. Still liked it, but would recommend her other two books first.
Rated Electric Literature no. 2 8/10
Lydia Davis' "The Cows" is easily my favorite story in this volume, and it's an overall strong collection of stories. I love these cows.<br><br>(For my full review, head to <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/07/electric-literature-no2-stories-from.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Wants to read Nuestra parte de noche
Wants to read Cien años de soledad
Wants to read Cyber Mage
Rated Maradona's mythe: Diego en de kinderen van Napels 2/10
Een slappe herschrijving van het boek van Sjoerd Mossou. 95% van het boek is oude, bekende kost. De overige 5% gaat over de zogenaamde mythe van het weeshuis. <br/>Bekende Napolitanen als Geolier worden op geforceerde wijze bij het verhaal betrokken. Er is echt weinig uniek aan het boek. <br/><br/>Daarnaast is het boek ook nog eens gewoon slecht geschreven. Het zit vol domme grappen, onnavolgbare vergelijkingen en onnodige linkjes naar het zoontje van de schrijver. <br/>Ik keek uit naar dit boek en ben teleurgesteld. Sorry, Sander.