Category Archives: reading

June 2014 Reading Log

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

A note here – I’ve mostly been listing nonfiction books in the month I started reading them, and combining my thoughts from throughout the time I was actually reading it. But I actually spent months reading some of these nonfiction … Continue reading →

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May 2014 Reading Log

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Knights of Breton Court by Maurice Broaddus (three volumes in this edition) could be described (and I think was, somewhere) as King Arthur meets The Wire. It’s brilliant and original, but I tend to find Arthuriana depressing in … Continue reading →

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March 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (galley) – I have known the author online for many years, though we’ve only met in person a few times, briefly. I loved this. Straight up loved it. And since now it’s been … Continue reading →

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February 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Marketplace (Book One of The Marketplace Series) by Laura Antoniou – this was a freebie of a well-known book about dominance and submission. I’d read it back when it came out, but didn’t remember much. Anyway, Submission is … Continue reading →

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Reading Log, September-October 2013

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I haven’t posted anything substantive in this blog in a really long time! Sorry about that. I haven’t been doing a lot of writing, but as usual when not writing much, I have been reading, and I’ve been logging that … Continue reading →

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In Search of Balance: Forever and Ever by Patricia Gaffney

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Victoria Janssen

The main discussion posts on the Wyckerley Trilogy may be found at Something More. My main takeaway from Forever and Ever by Patricia Gaffney is that it’s a story of a relationship between equals. This might seem an odd thing … Continue reading →

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To Love and To Cherish, Patricia Gaffney

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Victoria Janssen

Liz at Something More mentioned that she was planning to read Patricia Gaffney’s Wyckerley trilogy and post about it; I’d only read the middle book, To Have and to Hold, so I decided it would be fun to join in, … Continue reading →

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Some Recent YA Reading

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Victoria Janssen

I read a fair amount of recent Young Adult and Middle Grade books over the last year. These are some of my favorites, in no particular order. Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall is a YA fantasy involving … Continue reading →

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A Soldier’s Secret by Marissa Moss, out 9/1/12

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

I don’t normally post reviews in this blog, but this isn’t really a review. I acquired a galley of A Soldier’s Secret by Marissa Moss because I have a longtime fascination with crossdressing characters in fiction, particularly women who dressed … Continue reading →

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Daughter of Recent DNFs

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Victoria Janssen

I tried to read some books and stories recently but Did Not Finish reading them. 1. The concept behind this story intrigued me exceedingly – what an unusual twist on a famous myth! But after the prologue, which explained the … Continue reading →

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