This is another post that I have been dragging my feet on. It's funny since I had conceptualized what my goals were in December, but then after the 1st of the year, I've had to already begin adapting and creating new targets as more hurdles emerged. I guess that's just what happens right? So, looking … Continue reading 2019: Writing Ahead
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Review: Descender #1-6
This series was an unexpected surprise. I've been chugging through a lot of graphic novels/comics of late and this is one that I just have to take a moment and gush about. The Descender series by Jeff Lemire with art by Dustin Nguyen, is a fantastic space opera. While some of the thematic elements and tropes … Continue reading Review: Descender #1-6
Review: Borne
What a strange and wild ride. This was a really great read and anyone looking for a more "biotech" sort of dystopia, this has to be your first pick. Anyone willing to tolerate a bit of weird in the mix of their fiction, then you will be in good hands here, then again has Vandermeer … Continue reading Review: Borne
Review: Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng has to go in as my favorite book of 2019 so far. Wow. This was also my first audiobook of the year and by the end, I was so pleased to have made this the first one, although I wince at following this one up. Jennifer Lim narrated this … Continue reading Review: Little Fires Everywhere
2018 in Books
Sorry for the delay, but January proved to be a very busy month. I have my recap and some favorites below, so please take a moment a peek at those. Otherwise, I read a total of 137 stories(novels, graphic novels, short stories & novellas), so don't be too amazed by that count. Without putting this … Continue reading 2018 in Books
Review: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
This was a very different anthology, but a good one. Edited by by Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Christopher Wieland, we have a collection of upcoming writers who were asked to write science fiction in a new way, that imagines humanities' future in a context of climate change, far future realities, and new understandings of culture … Continue reading Review: Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
Review: The Wanderers
I really wanted to like The Wanderers by Meg Howrey, especially with how it was initially sold to me via the blurb: "Howery's exquisite novel demonstrates that the final frontier may not be space after all."(J. Ryan Stradal). At the end of the day I could only really give it two stars and wondered why … Continue reading Review: The Wanderers
Review: The Collapsing Empire
I might have had my expectations too high for the writer of Old Man's War, but John Scalzi did not exactly dazzle me with this first installment of his Interdependency Series. This was also a Hugo nomination from last year that I'm still wrapping up(got caught up on my own TBR list). The Collapsing Empire is really … Continue reading Review: The Collapsing Empire
Review: Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes was one of the last books I finished in 2018 and I loved it so much that I decided I needed to make it my first review of 2019. I realize this is more of a classic and many people have either already read the story(it won the Hugo … Continue reading Review: Flowers for Algernon
2018: A Review
So, this is much overdue and I won't even be able to cover everything that I want to cover here, like reading/writing stats and everything else. (I'll cover this in January.) What I do want to take a moment to reflect on is everything that happened in 2018 and what I am looking forward to in … Continue reading 2018: A Review
