On the last weekend of February, I went into a fugue state and 48 hours later, woke up to discover that I had posted a vlog on the YouTubes: → Lire ce billet en français And, nearly five years after I
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Brief recollections from the Tolkien Society Seminar (2020-02-13)
A wonderful interruption to the drudgery of confinement this last weekend was the Tolkien Society Seminar on Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien!
Reading the entire Jane Austen canon for the first time
I read Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma, and Northanger Abbey for the very first time this year. Here's what I thought about each entry into the Jane Austen canon!
Three Enjoyable SFF Reads (& Three Tea Pairings)
This summer I read CL Polk's Witchmark, Tamsyn Muir's Gideon The Ninth, and Lindsay Ellis' Axiom's End. Here are my first impressions!
Reading Log on Cockroaches In Autumn by Lydia Davis
There is one particular short story in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis that I’ve adored since the very first time I read it, called Cockroaches in Autumn.
Some of my winter reading (& a shout-out to the Book Rant Podcast)
This month's #DrinkTeaReadBooks: Silvia Moreno Garcia's Gods of Jade and Shadow, the first three Witcher books, I finally read Frank Herbert's Dune, amongst several others! And a shout-out to Book Rant Podcast for being awesome.