Archive for the 'Reading Recommendations' Category
Reading Recommendation: Heart of Iron, by Ekaterina Sedia
Just finished Heart of Iron last night. Part steampunk, part penny dreadful, part alternate history, and all fun. I decided I loved Ekaterina’s writing when I read The Alchemy of Stone, and so I picked this up shortly after it came out. The two books are very different, but both are full of voice. I [...]
Mayan Reading (Watching!): The Fountain
One of the authors whose books I’ve been using for reference in this time period mention Darren Aronofsky’s movie “The Fountain” to me. It really does seem to mirror the Mayan sense of time, and I liked it very much. It’s part new age trip, part science fiction, and all love story, complete with some [...]
Reading Recommendation: The Winds of Khalakovo, by Bradley P. Beaulieu
I found this debut fantasy novel intense and immersive. The world is right on that fine balance of being familiar enough that I felt grounded and yet full of enough differences in culture and appearance to be fascinating. Brad thrusts the reader directly and deeply into Khalakovo – I’m not sure I actually saw even [...]
Reading Recommendation: WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer
Loved this book. In fact, I loved the whole series, and happily the ending lived up to the other two books, maybe even exceeded expectations. Excellent YA SF, which there isn’t nearly enough of in my opinion. Also an excellent read for adults. By the way, I just found a whole website devoted to these [...]
Reading Recommendation: Matchmaker, by Erin Hartshorn
I listened to this in the podcast version over at Clarkesworld. It’s a lovely tale. I’m enchanted with it becasue it directly addresses alien race relations through the eyes of a race that has been persecuted here. I can’t say much more without spoilers, but it’s a brave story, well-told, and also narrated quite nicely [...]
Reading Recommendation: River Marked by Patricia Briggs
I love Coyote stories. I love Patricia Brigg’s work. This book is both. It may be the best of the Mercy series so far. This is, by the way, what I did last Sunday afternoon. I sat in a big comfy chair, put my foot up (still recovering from surgery) , and read the thing [...]
Mayan (er…Aztec) Reading: Servant of the Underworld, by Aliette de Bodard
I’m busy reading books and stories set either in 2012 or in the Yucatan Peninsula. I read Aliette de Bodard’s Nebula nominated novelette, “The Jaguar House, In Shadow” and loved it so much that I went right to her novel “Servant of the Underworld.” It’s a bit of a cheat for this post series because [...]
Reading Recommendation: Nnedi Okorafor’s “Who Fears Death”
While finishing up as much Nebula Awards reading as possible, I ordered and then devoured Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful novel “Who Fears Death.” Interestingly enough, her story that I recommended a few posts ago, “The Book of Phoenix” fits into this novel. The world-building is phenomenal, full of symbolism and magic and yet close enough for [...]
Reading Recommendation: Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix….
The whole title is The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book). I listened to this as a podcast on the way over to the Rainforest Writer’s Retreat. It was quite awesome. I don’t really want to say too much about it since it’s not very long, but I like it a lot. And, [...]
Reading Recommendation: Mozart’s Blood, by Louise Marley
Louise Marley is a good friend and we sometimes share bits of writing with each other. So I saw Mozart’s Blood born a few years ago. I hadn’t read it all the way through, or even seen the last half at all. My theme for recovery has been “read the things you want to read” [...]
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