Tag: book review
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2018-2019 Compilation Post
The end of summer is coming… Fall always feels like a time of reckoning. Harvest. Counting up what happened in the year, good and bad, and getting the books in order for winter. Last year I wrote 19 book reviews on this site and started the Diverse Reading Challenge with The Tale of Genji. It’s about 1000 pages,…
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Tybalt Perdition by John Cordial
Rating: 4/5, good This is the story of a water fairy born from a shipwreck who helps a fox god escape the wrath of a wolf god. Caldyr, the fairy, has a take-no-prisoners personality with extremely strong water magic to back it up. Reynardine, the fox god, is a flirty, selfish trickster god. The…
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The Cast by Danielle Steel
Rating: 3/5, average This is the first Danielle Steel book I have read. I can count the romance books I’ve read on one hand, so this is not my usual genre, however, I got curious about Danielle Steel after reading an interview with her in Glamour in which she talks about her harsh schedule. Steel…
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Your and My Secret by Ai Morinaga
Rating: 4/5, good I’ve only read volume 1 so far, but this manga is really cute! It’s a bit old (2003), but I think it’s still worth a look. I picked this up at the swap meet at Fanime. It’s about a teenage boy and a teenage girl, Akira Uehara and Nanako Momoi, who switch…
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Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Rating: 4/5, good When this was published last year (2018), it took the Twitter world by storm. It seemed like everybody was posting about it, but I didn’t buy it when it first came out because the premise didn’t appeal to me. It’s a scifi novel about some Earthlings…
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The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus Rating: 4/5, good I read this in high school and all I remembered was that he didn’t cry at his mom’s funeral and he shot a guy because it was too sunny. I picked this up to reread on a trip because it’s small (a little over 100 pages) and…
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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Rating: 4/5, good I originally read this on a plane, quickly, without much thought. I tried to sit down and review it a few weeks ago, but I felt like I didn’t understand it well enough. I looked up Osamu Dazai’s biography and then reread No Longer Human, and it seemed to come into place.…
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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin Rating: 5/5, excellent I loved this book. N.K. Jemisin creates a whole world for readers to explore. The way she obscures secrets to build tension and then reveals them at just the right dramatic moment is nothing short of masterful. N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is the first book…
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The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Rating: 5/5, excellent WARNING: This review contains spoilers! This book is a touchstone for me. I read it the first time in middle school, and it really resonated with me. The Invisible Man is a very irritable, impatient, smart person. He reminds me a lot of myself and my…