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My October Reading Log

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker was my TBR Challenge book for October. System Collapse by Martha Wells is the new Murderbot book. I won’t spoil anything here! I definitely recommend reviewing the previous volume (Network … Continue reading →

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My September Reading Log

Posted on October 13, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

September involved some travel and other transitions for me, so I spent almost all of it reading a single series. Fanfiction: The Desert Storm by Blue_Sunshine and its sequel series are well over a million words of Star Wars time … Continue reading →

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My August Reading Log

Posted on September 15, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The School at the Chalet by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer is first in a long series of British girls’ school stories set in the Tyrol in Austria; the Chalet School is explicitly British, in that the Austrian students strive to … Continue reading →

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My July Reading Log

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe is an atmospheric novella set in a post-apocalyptic Kentucky. The United States, or at least some of the Southern states, have been devastated by a war with an AI, who created the Voluntary … Continue reading →

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My June Reading Log

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Witch King by Martha Wells only just came out, so I will avoid major spoilers, but it’s great. The worldbuilding is similar to the Raksura books in that there are different sentient species who interact, but except for the … Continue reading →

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My March Reading Log

Posted on April 14, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Iron Princess by Barbara Hambly is her first fantasy novel in about a decade and a half. To me, it had elements that reminded me of both the Darwath books and the Windrose Chronicles; it’s likely meant to … Continue reading →

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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Iron Children by Rebecca Fraimow will be out in early April; I read an ARC via Netgalley. In this novella, two countries are at war. The larger and more powerful Levastani want to take back the smaller country, … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Aftermath: Tides Turning (Clorinda Cathcart’s Circle Book 18) by L. A. Hall started my year off right with a check-in on old friends. I loved how the younger generation was taking up the slack to subtly change things for … Continue reading →

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My December Reading Log

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson is a charming romance with older characters set in a contemporary small English village. Major Ernest Pettigrew, a widower of six years, has just been told his brother unexpectedly died, when he … Continue reading →

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My November Reading Log

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch visited Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island, in 1878. After closing a politically sensitive case in his home country of England, Finch is pressured to visit the United States while the court case unfolds. … Continue reading →

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