Rated The Story of a New Name 10/10
<div>I wish I'd started on Ferrante when these books came out! I was even on the list for review copies!! AND YET.<br><br>Better late than never!<br><br>Anyway, this book was even better than MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, which I also loved.</div>
Rated The Story of Mary Maclane 6/10
<div>RIP Mary MacLane, you would've loved livejournal, tumblr, and AO3. We would have lost you to Poster's Madness years ago.<br><br>Mary MacLane, if you didn't know, was Winnipeg-born, but it was in Butte, Montana, where she gained notoriety as a "wild woman" who was going to write about herself and whatever else she wanted, and if that includes fanfiction about the Devil and shading Charlotte Brontë, then so be it!! <br><br>She was bisexual, feminist, angry, lonely, one child of many, breathing in mining fumes, confident, funny, complex, and unfortunately, a big Byron and Napoleon fan. You're not reading her for great literature, but I love that a Butte gal got everyone up in arms, circa 1902. #ButteAmerica<br><br></div>
Rated The War Master: Future Phantoms 8/10
Rated Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe 10/10
Rated The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith 10/10
If it's odd to have one of my favorite books be about a sociopathic murderer, I don't care. <br><br>(My full review appears at <a href="http://persephonemagazine.com/2012/09/27/book-review-the-talented-mr-ripley-by-patricia-highsmith/">Persephone Magazine</a>.)
Rated The Underworld 8/10
Very much enjoyed this, probably more so because it is a stretch of road with which I am familiar. A book full of grieving, realistically messy people (though the book is not one I'd call a tearjerker at all), doing the best they can, even when the best they can might be a poor decision anyway.
Wants to read The Universe of Us (Volume 4)
Rated The Vital Abyss 7/10
<div>Some interesting supplemental material.</div>
Rated The War Master: Escape from Reality 10/10
<div>The Master causing problems with fictional characters we already know? Yes of course this is a good time.</div>
Rated The War Master: Rage of the Time Lords 8/10
Poor Eighth Doctor. His brain is like a shredded sponge with all this memory mischief, ha. But this was good.
Rated Three Bags Full 8/10
<div>I heard about this book via Bluesky, maybe a year or so before the movie came out, but I didn't know it came out in 2005 originally! My library hold was very long until they recently got more copies.<br><br>Anyway, I enjoyed this unusual way of approaching a murder mystery story, and the sheep definitely still seemed like sheep, and not very human brains inside sheep bodies. I wouldn't necessarily call this a "cozy" mystery, but it's not grimdark either, and actually, there are a lot of funny parts. Glad I got to it. </div>
Rated The Wire in the Blood 8/10
<div>A few plot points were a little convenient, but this was a good one. A lot more gross, details-wise, than some of her others. Maybe that's just how this particular series is though, which is fine.</div>
Rated The World We Make 10/10
<div>A really excellent conclusion to this story of living cities, though the ending leaves just enough wiggle room for another story, should NK Jemisin decide to come back to this universe. I always enjoy how inventive and detailed she is with her world-building, but never at the expense of character. I'll read anything by her.</div>
Rated This Is How You Lose the Time War 7/10
<div>I don't know that this was exactly the book for me (which surprised me, since I do like a good time travel story), but I very much respect the unusual way this story is told. Count me among the many who picked this up after the posts about it on The Site Formerly Known As Twitter. Glad to see what the hype was about, but I think I wanted the worlds in which Red and Blue exist to be more clear, but that could be on me.</div>
Rated Tiamat's Wrath 10/10
<div>Definitely one of those books where you say, "Just one more chapter," and before you know it, you've read over 200 pages in one day. Really looking forward to the ninth book, even it is the last.</div>