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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The City and The City by China Miéville is actually a mystery, though set in a bizarre speculative world. Two cities occupy the same space, and the inhabitants learn to “unsee” and “unhear” their counterparts. There is bureaucracy surrounding … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman is first in the contemporary Decker/Lazarus mystery series. A violent rape and then a brutal murder take place in a tightknit yeshiva community in California; we get the pov of Rina Lazarus, the … Continue reading →

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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Mile High Murder (A Hannah Ives Mystery) by Marcia Talley was a contemporary mystery centered around two women who take a fact-finding trip to Colorado to look at the marijuana industry, in preparation for creating legislation for Maryland. I … Continue reading →

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My November Reading Log

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch had some resolutions happen in the series! I shall not spoil which ones. The plot raised some new questions in Peter Grant’s quest to understand how magic works, because it’s always much more complicated … Continue reading →

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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 30, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Exit Strategy: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells concludes the series, at least so far, and made me very happy, except I still want more. There is a lot more world out there to explore, and a lot more … Continue reading →

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My September Reading Log

Posted on October 12, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Hild by Nicola Griffith is a historical novel about a medieval woman who eventually became an abbess. There’s very little actual information about the woman, but Griffith did a ton of research and it shows, in a very very … Continue reading →

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My August Reading Log

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Deep Roots by Ruthanna Emrys is second in the Innsmouth Legacy series, set only a short time after the previous book ends. Our heroes have to travel to New York City in search of a lost relative, and there … Continue reading →

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My July Reading Log

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse is post-apocalyptic dark fantasy/horror set in Dinetah, a Navajo nation that survives ecological disaster but has problems with monsters and supernatural creatures of the sort that want to kill and eat humans. The … Continue reading →

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My June Reading Log

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold is very Bujoldian, and I wish it had been longer. It takes place before Cryoburn. My favorite part was the speculative science of dealing with a heavily-irradiated landscape, and how to … Continue reading →

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My May Reading Log

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang is Asian-flavored science fantasy with a familiar plot, following the twin children of a dictator as they grow into their paranormal abilities and oppose their mother’s reign. Only one of the … Continue reading →

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