“Tell me. Tell me how I did it. Because from where I’m standing, it looks like you’re the one going to prison.”
Review: People Like Us
Review: Three Tales
“The fields were empty, the river rippling in the wind; at the bottom long weeds were waving to and fro, like the hair of corpses floating in the water.” - Gustave Flaubert, Three Tales
Review: Every Heart a Doorway
A series of murders plague the Home and the murderer walks among them. This is the least intriguing possible aspect of McGuire’s unusual world.
Villette: Bronte’s lesser known but fantastic novel
“I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.” ― Charlotte Brontë
Review: Wizards of Once
“You do have to listen to the stories, for stories always mean something. The question that worries me is: WHAT exactly do they mean?” - Cressida Cowell
Is it right to write in books?
It’s a divisive question among book lovers. Some prefer to keep their precious tomes scribble-free. Others savor making notes in the margins and coming back to the memories later on.
Team Review: Winter
"Now it's the dark of early Christmas morning, the time before dawn, and this is the best time in the world for an old song about a lost child travelling in the snow." ~ Ali Smith, Winter
Review: The Fox
"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 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.
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