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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 12, 2024 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree is a prequel to Legends and Lattes, set early in orc narrator Viv’s career as a mercenary. When she’s sidelined in a small town by a leg wound, boredom leads her to make … Continue reading →

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My May Reading Log

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Strong Wine by A.J. Demas is third in a trilogy about former solider and all-around mensch Damiskos and his spy/dancer lover Varazda, set in a world reminiscent of Classical Greece. I’d recommend reading this series in order, as a … Continue reading →

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My July Reading Log

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Demon Fighter Sucks by Katherine Crighton is short fiction at Apex Magazine. It’s speculative fiction about YouTube and grief. After the Gold: A Twin Cities Ice Book by Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese is a contemporary romance whose protagonists … Continue reading →

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My September, October, and November Reading Log

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Golden in Death by J.D. Robb is fiftieth in the Eve Dallas series, and yes I read it, and yes it checked in with many recurring characters including a couple we hadn’t seen in a while, and yes it … Continue reading →

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My July and August Reading Log

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: I reread Wild Horses and then The Danger by Dick Francis. A friend recommended the author to me in high school; I’d read and re-read all of them over the years, but boxed them up about five years ago, … Continue reading →

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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Forbidden Stars by Tim Pratt is third in the Axiom space opera series. Like the previous books, it is banter-tastic, and has a lot of clever solutions to life-threatening problems as Our Heroes try to rescue colonists who’ve … Continue reading →

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My August Reading Log

Posted on September 13, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Nonfiction: The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I by Larry Zuckerman was a slog, but not because it’s a bad book. It was a slog because it’s difficult to read about so much pure, unadulterated fuckery … Continue reading →

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My July Reading Log

Posted on August 9, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: For a Readercon panel, I re-read The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein and its three sequels. It did not matter to her that she walked in danger; it only mattered that she could speak and act freely again, and that … 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 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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