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Mt TBR Report: April 2022

Posted on May 5, 2022May 2, 2022 by Elizabeth

My reading and acquisitions for April 2022.

Sanctuary by Andi C. Buchanan

Posted on April 21, 2022March 29, 2022 by Elizabeth

This week, I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of Sanctuary by Andi C. Buchanan. It’s a book that centres diversity through a found family ghost story.

Spear by Nicola Griffith

Posted on April 14, 2022January 12, 2022 by Elizabeth

Although I’m not a big fan of King Arthur and the legends of Camelot, I could not resist the promise of a queer retelling. Which is a good thing for me, because Spear was a book I genuinely savoured. It retells the story of the knight Percival, referred to here as Peretur which is the […]

Mt TBR Report: March 2022

Posted on April 7, 2022April 3, 2022 by Elizabeth

My reading is getting slower and slower this year. I’ve decided it’s time to officially downgrade my reading goals and have set my Goodreads Challenge down to 100 books. Speaking of reading challenges, I didn’t even glance at my selections for the mini Magical Readathon. I was rather disappointed, but recognise I’ve got a lot […]

Mt TBR Report: February 2022

Posted on March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 by Elizabeth

February was the month of short: two short story collections, a book of short poems and a couple of novellas. Perhaps that’s fitting for a short month. My reading has continued to be slower this year than it used to be. I’m doing my best to roll with it, but it trips up my planning […]

The Art of Broken Things by Joanne Anderton

Posted on February 24, 2022March 29, 2022 by Elizabeth

This week, I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of The Art of Broken Things by Joanne Anderton. It’s a new collection of short stories by one of Australia’s most talented writers of dark speculative fiction.

Mt TBR Report: January 2022

Posted on February 3, 2022February 2, 2022 by Elizabeth

My Mt TBR skyrocketed this month, as I got sucked into Kobo’s e-book subscription service. The plan is to stay with it for a couple of months to work through the things I’m interested in reading and then let it go… but we’ll see how that works out. Mt TBR Status Mt TBR @ 1 […]

Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat

Posted on January 13, 2022January 13, 2022 by Elizabeth

This week I’m over at Nerds of a Feather with a review of Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat. It’s a story that brings some shades of grey to the traditional battle between light and dark, walking a fine line between paying homage to classic works of fantasy and generic predictability.

Mt TBR Report: November 2021

Posted on December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 by Elizabeth

November proved yet another very slow reading month. However, this was offset by some serious unhauling of my Mt TBR. I’m hoping to squeeze in some more sorting so that I can go into the new year with more of a mound than a mountain. Or at least a mountain instead of a mountain range. […]

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

Posted on November 22, 2021November 15, 2021 by Elizabeth

An incomplete list of things that I love: historical fantasy romance; sunshine/stormcloud pairings; competent ladies (even as side characters); land magic; sentient (or semi-sentient) manor houses; stolen kisses in a private library. I’m pretty sure A Marvellous Light was written just for me. An administrative error sees Sir Robert Blyth (Robin to his friends) become […]