by admin | Feb 8, 2024 | Reading Matters
I just finished Jenny Kiefer’s This Wretched Valley, by first-time novelist Jenny Kiefer … and I almost liked it. But there was something missing… and I wonder if anyone else felt it, too. You remember the podcast, Talking Scared, that I reviewed a while back? They...
by admin | Jan 15, 2024 | Reading Matters
Nat Cassidy’s Mary is basically the story of Carrie suffering through a very bloody version of menopause – among so many other things. In the beginning, Mary herself looks like a singularly uninteresting woman: quiet, middle-aged unassuming, working in the basement of...
by admin | Nov 29, 2022 | Reading Matters
Yeah, it’s that simple: Joe Abercrombie is one of the best writers of gritty, realistic fantasy working today. His only flaw is that there isn’t enough of him. Abercrombie has created a number of interlocking series set in a world of barbarian nations,...
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