Category Archives: reading

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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April 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Lone Wolf (Bluewater Bay Book 4) by Aleksandr Voinov and L.A. Witt is a male/male romance. I’d read one book previously in this series, which focuses on the creative personalities surrounding a series of werewolf books and the television … Continue reading →

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February 2015 Reading Log

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Partner by Lia Silver, the sequel to Prisoner; I know this author, though mostly online. I got an advance copy and read it all in one evening, and my only complaint was that it was not longer (it didn’t … Continue reading →

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January 2015 Reading Log

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Bone Rider by J. Fally features a romance between a human and alien symbiotic sentient armor…well, actually the male human’s romance is with another male human, and there is a plot involving the U.S. Army and the Russian mafia, … Continue reading →

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Readercon 2015

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I’ll be at Readercon in Burlington, MA next weekend. Guests of Honor: Nicola Griffith and Gary K. Wolfe. Memorial Guest of Honor: Joanna Russ. Friday, July 11, 11:00 AM. G Drift-Compatibile Fictional Characters. Amal El-Mohtar, Victoria Janssen, Nicole Kornher-Stace (leader), … Continue reading →

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