Discworld Mini-Reviews (2/2) | Monstrous Regiment and Soul Music

Blink and another week lapses. By way of achievement, what I have managed to do is read two more Discworld novels, thus growing the absolute pile of unreviewed books for this blog, and thereby growing more nervous in the process. What is the self if not taking a beloved hobby and ruining it a little?  …

Discworld Mini-Reviews (1/2) | Mort and Reaper Man

Somewhere in the beginning of 2021, I had begun my humble foray into the splendid Discworld series. I had really enjoyed both my initial outings with the series, The Colour of Magic and Guards! Guards!, and had even managed to dedicate two separate reviews on this blog, with full ambition to keep up the tradition …

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History | R E D R U M

“Even the most psychopathic woman can realize, when staring death in the eyes, that what she valued, in the end, was life all along.”Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, Tori Telfer I have several unfinished blog-posts collecting digital dust on my archives explaining away both my long silence as well as my reading slump. There …

Horror Shorts (mini-reviews)

In this brief interlude between writing in the blog, I truly did something out-of-character. I read horror.  Do you ever feel like you need to be in specific circumstances, specific mental states to get to reading specific kinds of books? For me, the usual status quo is picking up character-driven, rich-prose speculative fictions. But in …

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold | Political fantasy and free will

“What is this astonishing foolishness, that shines brighter than all my father’s gold? Can you teach me to be such a fool too Caz?” “Oh,” breathed Cazaril, “I’m sure of it.” The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold [I have been in a bit of a slump. And in other news, water is wet. Work …

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett| Human nature | Flawed orders

“Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of …

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett | I have started to read the Discworld!

“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.” The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett. [I know I have made a weird tradition with myself that I open every book review with a random backstory that ultimately ties in with my feelings about the book, and sometimes I wonder if it’s …

Beach Read by Emily Henry | Romance is in the air!

“People were complicated. They weren't math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck.”- Beach Read, Emily Henry Okay, okay! I have read yet another contemporary adult romance and loved it. A long time ago, my GR bio had mentioned my reading interest to include everything but contemporary romances (and now I …