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My March Reading Log

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Immortals: Olympus Bound by Jordanna Max Brodsky was a strange but intriguing mixture of Olympian gods with a suspense novel involving serial killings. The Olympians are fading away as they live in the modern world, gradually losing their … Continue reading →

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My February Reading Log

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Taking the Lead by Cecilia Tan is a contemporary romance with BDSM, first in a new series. The heroine and her sister have inherited their gazillionaire grandfather’s secret Hollywood BDSM club, and the hero is a rock star who’s … Continue reading →

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My January Reading Log

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Vulcanization by Nisi Shawl is the awesomest steampunk story ever; Leopold II of Belgian Congo colonialist infamy wants to rid himself of visions of the people he’s victimized, using a strange device. After reading King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story … Continue reading →

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November Reading Log

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: A Trifle Dead by Livia Day is a humorous small-town mystery. I enjoyed all the quirky characters and the to-me-unusual setting of Hobart in Tasmania; there’s also a lot of excellent, excellent food description, as the first person narrator … Continue reading →

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Book Sample-palooza

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I’m going to have some time to read over my Christmas holiday, so I went through my wishlist and downloaded a whole slew of samples (see below). I will report back once I get through them all! In the meantime, … Continue reading →

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October 2015 Reading Log

Posted on November 13, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

October was a pretty sad reading month for me! I was extremely busy, which was part of it, and I seem to be in a bit of a fiction slump as well. The only fiction I finished was 1) a … Continue reading →

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September 2015 Reading Log

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: That Scandalous Summer by Meredith Duran is the first historical romance I’ve read in, it seems, forever. The characters are intriguing! The hero is a doctor whose brother is trying to bully him into marrying; the heroine is a … Continue reading →

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July 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: I re-read Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in order to moderate a Readercon discussion on the book, for which I volunteered at the last minute. I also read Persona by Genevieve Valentine for a Readercon discussion. It’s not that … Continue reading →

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June 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace starts off violent and world-weary and continues to be gripping but painful. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world (isn’t everything, nowadays?) in which human cruelty and desperation take center stage. Wasp, the protagonist, is … Continue reading →

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May 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Nonfiction: A Companion to the Fairy Tale edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson and Anna Chaudhri is what is says on the tin. The introduction and the first couple of essays gave me a pretty good grounding in fairy tale scholarship … Continue reading →

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