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In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich …
I stand by my original assessment, that this length of story (four in a volume) is the right length for a raymond chandler story
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the …
unsurprisingly, beautiful and heartbreaking
I found this accidentally while looking for Miyoko Schinner's meat cookbook, it looks intriguing so far. It's nice to see a book that isn't just seitan variations, but it calls for a lot of super specialized ingredients that I'm not sure I'll be able to get
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
I think the reason I like this book so much is that in response to a whale-related traumatic situation, I too would incessantly regale anyone I could corner with whale trivia
the last two novels I read did not hit the spot so if nothing else this should be a splash of cold water deviation from dragging myself through historical fantasy
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a …
I enjoyed this very much! and if I ever in my life meet someone who is specifically interested in historical information management systems I will recommend it. but it's sure not a popsci beach read
Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya …
This isn't really my type of thing but I accidentally only brought it on a weekend away from home so I'm branching out
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
a big bite to chew for a chapter-a-day audiobook podcast
Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Where …
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't …
I think on some spiritual level, even though this wasn't published until I was an adult, I feel like I read and loved this as a young teen. Reading it now felt like wrapping myself in the coziest blanket of imaginary nostaliga. I stayed up late reading this and read it instead of doing other things I needed to do. It's been a very long time since I have felt this immersed in a world.
It reminded me a little of The Goblin Emperor in its depth of humanity, and its portrayal of cruelty that doesn't make light of it, and, weirdly, I feel like there's some backstory parallels with Gideon the Ninth, although it couldn't be more differently tonally.
There were times were I did find it a little moralizing, and when the writing rang a bit off, but I loved it very much and if you don't like it I don't want to hear about it because it's been retrconned into my cherished childhood lore.
Bertie and Jeeves do their best to help, and occasionally hinder, love-struck Bingo Little as …
comfort food in audiobook form
Benedict Cumberbatch reads five stories featuring the famous vegetarian railway detective, Thorpe Hazell, as heard …
This was very short and pretty silly
Even the Wild Man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that …
that was sweet
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a …
sickos: haha yes
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the …
This was excellent and I'm glad I got to revisit it as an adult, after being very not ready for it as a kid
In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first …
visited my family last weekend and it's hard to understate the extent to which I bothered them about sumerian cuisine