In my opinion, this is the best shot from Season 8 of Game of Thrones. Somewhat underwhelmed by the finale, because it all felt so rushed, but I’m excited for what the novels will bring. Winds/Dream. 🙂
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Sharp Objects by Gillian FlynnMy rating: 3 of 5 stars Sharp Objects is a solid first novel, to which I would have given a higher rating, were it not for the summary technique in the conclusion that robs the reader of the experience of that year of discovery. Flynn does everything else right. Her characters
Devoured this scrumptious morsel in but a few hours and still left a little hungry. Read More »
I’m just posting this so I don’t lose it. — For Anonymous-George, long ago I saw one of the first, I believe, novels about a young woman who wasn’t allowed to use magic or whatever because she was a woman, and the thought occurred to me as to how it might go if men were
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. LoewenMy rating: 5 of 5 stars A long horrific account of America’s deliberate segregation, its underlying current of white-onliness, born out of Loewen’s personal journey of awakening to the fact he was surrounded by Sundown Towns, those locales so hostile to blacks that the
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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiMy rating: 5 of 5 stars An important story written from a vantage point above a landscape of suffering and tears. Adeyemi does an excellent job with setting, painting a colorful mosaic rich in magical realism but grounded in pain and tragedy. I especially found compelling her use
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