Stephen Fry has a voice that is made for audiobook narrating. I mean, not only is his voice pleasant in its timbre, but he puts his acting chops to work and brings real emotion to what he’s reading.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan enticed me from the moment I saw it on a list of anticipated 2024 releases. I was really looking forward to reading it, and it was in fact the first new release I read this year.
Book Review: I Know What I Am by Gina Siciliano
I was excited to pick this up during the 2022 Seattle Indie Bookstore Day promotion, because I wanted to read it and I was pretty confident it would be easy to fit into that year/s SAL/SPL Book Bingo. I mean, it was by a local author, it was a graphic novel, it was about history, art, a trial, it had elements of feminism, it was from a local publisher… and yet somehow I couldn’t fit it into a single dang square.
Book Review: The Marquis Who Mustn’t by Courtney Milan
Historical romance is a pretty hit or miss genre for me. Courtney Milan is an author in that arena who I generally like, because her books often focus on less-represented groups of people, she does a lot of research, and I’ve just enjoyed what I’ve read from her so far.
Book Review: Pockets by Hannah Carlson
Pockets apparently started out as an idea for a dissertation, and despite being published by a mainstream publisher, it wears its academic origins on its sleeve. It takes several hundred pages to not say very much, and gets weirdly theoretical about pockets and gender.
Book Review: All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows
With this book, Meadows has given us a book that not only explores what it might take to make an arranged, hasty political marriage work while also trying to heal your own individual trauma, but also the “what next” inherent in coming out after a lifetime of being closeted.
Book Review: Cat Tale by Craig Pittman
On a recent visit to the library to avail myself of printing services, I saw a copy of Cat Tale by Craig Pittman on the shelf, and I thought that the story of saving the Florida panther from extinction sounded like just my sort of thing.
Book Review: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
The first book I finished reading in 2024 was The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. Surprisingly, this was my first time reading this classic of fantasy fiction. I also have no memory of ever seeing the animated movie. This strikes me as weird because I loved unicorns as a kid and grew up on…
Book Review: The Conductors by Nicole Glover
The Conductors blends elements of fantasy, mystery, and history together to create something that feels like an urban fantasy, but set in the 19th century instead of the modern day.
Book Review: Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis
Scales and Sensibility is a regency romance which takes place in an England that will feel very much like the England of most regency romances (which is to say, historically accurate-ish but with a gloss of wishful thinking over everything). The main difference of course, is the presence of dragons.