"In Sartotias-deles, only once have we seen pirates enjoy the protection of the strongest naval power in the world." ~ Sherwood Smith, The Fox
Review: The Fox
Review: The Power
“This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.”
February TBR
February is a month packed with fantasy for both of us.
Review: A Monster Calls
"You do not write your life with words . . . you write it with actions" Patrick Ness.
Review: News of the World
"Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage." ~ Paulette Jiles, News of the World
Team Review: Tender at the Bone
The first dish was a consommé that tasted as if a million chickens had died to make it. ~ Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone
Team Review: Radio Free Vermont
“It was, he thought, a blessing to have lived out his life in a place that spun slowly like that yellow leaf, an eddy in the American rapids, a place that was shrinking when most of the country was growing, growing, ever-growing,” ~ Bill McKibben
Review: Without You There is No Us
"There's no freedom," he sighed, "They are watching us constantly. I know they are recording everything we say and keeping files on us, and I feel really bad all the time . . ." from Without You There is No Us.
Review: Eileen
“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back,” Ottessa Moshfegh
Review: Tehanu
While this still felt like Earthsea and the characters were as strong as ever, this story felt quiet compared to previous entries, in a way that I wasn’t totally grabbed by.
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