Category Archives: reading

My May Reading Log

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Shirt on His Back is tenth in Barbara Hambly’s Benjamin January series. I always buy her new ones in hardcover, and the line of unread ones on my shelf is a little embarrassing, so I dove in. Such … Continue reading →

Posted in fanfiction, mystery, reading, romance novels, sf/f | Tagged | Comments Off on My May Reading Log

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 →

Posted in fanfiction, m/m, mystery, nonfiction, paranormal, reading, sf/f | Tagged | Comments Off on My December Reading Log

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 →

Posted in fanfiction, mystery, nonfiction, paranormal, reading, romance novels, suspense/thriller | Tagged | Comments Off on My November Reading Log

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 →

Posted in historical fiction, mystery, nonfiction, reading, romance novels, sf/f | Tagged | Comments Off on My October Reading Log

My May Reading Log

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang is Asian-flavored science fantasy with a familiar plot, following the twin children of a dictator as they grow into their paranormal abilities and oppose their mother’s reign. Only one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, fanfiction, mystery, reading, sf/f, wwi, ya | Tagged | Comments Off on My May Reading Log

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 →

Posted in comics, fanfiction, nonfiction, reading, sf/f, western | Tagged , | Comments Off on My April Reading Log

My September and October Reading Logs

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Victoria Janssen

Nonfiction: In War’s Dark Shadow: The Russians before the Great War by W. Bruce Lincoln took me a year or more to finish. This book is from the 1980s, when it was a big deal that Lincoln had actually been … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, fanfiction, nonfiction, reading, research, romance novels, sf/f | Tagged | Comments Off on My September and October Reading Logs

My August Reading Log

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Victoria Janssen

Nonfiction: Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction by John Rieder is highly recommended if if you’re at all interested in the subject. This book helped me make/clarify a plethora of mental connections between colonialism and Social Darwinism and racism … Continue reading →

Posted in nonfiction, paranormal, reading, romance novels, sf/f | Tagged | Comments Off on My August Reading Log

My April – May Reading Log

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older is a YA novel that ties in to his Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series. The magic of the shadowshapers is very, very cool, and so are the different ways it can be manifested. … Continue reading →

Posted in comics, fanfiction, nonfiction, reading, sf/f, ya | Tagged | Comments Off on My April – May Reading Log

My December and January Reading Log

Posted on March 24, 2017 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: I breezed through Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts). This series isn’t getting any better, but offers the comfort of familiar characters and plot patterns. A new character was introduced, a deputy from out of state, who … Continue reading →

Posted in fanfiction, mystery, nonfiction, reading, sf/f | Comments Off on My December and January Reading Log