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Return of the Reading Log: March and April, 2020

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter by K.J. Charles is a short romance between an ace trans music hall singer and an ace man who works as a fence for the notorious Lilywhite Boys. Both are in danger from an upstart criminal, … Continue reading →

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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 13, 2020 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Jade Temptress by Jeannie Lin is the second of her historical romance mysteries set in Tang Dynasty China. The heroine Mingyu, a highly trained courtesan, discovers one of her highest-ranking clients spectacularly dead and must work with big, … 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 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 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 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 April Reading Log

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey posits an extremely clever alternate American history in which hippo ranching took over the Mississippi Delta and other areas before the Civil War. Set in the 1890s, the plot follows an eccentric group … Continue reading →

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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Last October, my friend Natlyn recommended A Study In Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas to me. I’d read Thomas’ historical romances; she has really lovely prose, but I found her romances stressful (very good, just stressful!). I bought the … Continue reading →

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