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Book Post: Doerr, Jones, Bujold and Chekhov
Cloud Cockoo Land by Anthony Doerr, 622pp
This book was excellent. Doerr has a talent in the way he uses language to just draw you into the world. I really enjoyed his "All the Light We Cannot See" so I wanted to check this out. This book is split into three time periods or there about with several young child/teenager (we see many as they grow as ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Bujold, Sacks, Hosseini, Bester, Rowling and Vernon
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold, 328pp [Vorkosigan Saga]
I wasn't sure what to expect - Vorkosigan series hasn't disappointed me yet but I knew very little about this book or the plot. It turned into a pretty fun caper with a few coincidences and several hilarious moments (I love how Miles is pulling out the pictures of his family to show ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: El Saadawi, Munroe, Sapkowski, Bechdel, Saget and O'Leary
Since crossposting from DW is not working, I am copying to LJ and I can't figure out how to hide spoilers in the new editor. I see the button, put the info but it doesn't seem to work. So here is a general spoiler disclaimer here. Some spoilers below. If you read this on DW, I put spoilers behind a cut.
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, ( Read more... ) -
Movies and TV in 2021
Movies in 2021
I watched 29! movies. Compared with the last how many years that is actually a lot. I think part of it is finally being able to do some family movie night and watch all together. There were a lot of rewatches. A lot of Netflix movies since that was convenient. But also, we went back to the library in the fall and I realized I could ( Read more... ) -
Book Meme 2021
2021 was a good year for books for me. I read 60 books, well 10 of them were children's books, and a few very short ones but I also had several very long one including one of 1000 pages. I also read more than usual modern books that were not sci-fi and fantasy so that was a bit unusual. In fact, my top two were contemporary books. And I enjoyed ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Clanchy, Smith, Galgut, Gaiman, Austen and Headley
Last six books from 2021. I will write up a summary book post for the year next but I just wanted to finish up some thoughts on these ones.
From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 by M.T. Clanchy, 334pp
This is a classic medieval history book that I read some off but I always wanted to read the whole thing. Clanchy traces the rise of ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Gaiman, Ovid, Adichie and Gromyko
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman, 120pp
I got this one in the library when we went with the girls sometime in October. It was a beautifully illustrated edition and a quick read since it is a children's book. The girls were not interested so I read it myself. It was about a 12 year old boy named Odd and his interactions with Norse Gods, Odin ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Jackson, Bujold, Bacigalupi, Bulychev, Novik and Dragunskiy
Shirley Jackson: A rather haunted life by Ruth Franklin, 499pp
A biography of Shirley Jackson, an American writer, famous for "The Lottery" short story and books like "The Haunting of Hill House" and "We have Always Lived in the Castle". I'm not a fan of horror stories and I never read much of her (I do believe I read "The Lottery" in high school ( Read more... ) -
Book Post: Galbraith, Brust, Cleary, Gaiman and Wllis
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) [Cormoran Strike 5], 1000pp
It was 1000 pages but I didn't want it to end. I think this might be my favorite of this series, and this is Book 5. I really liked the balance between the case - and it was a really interesting cold case of a woman that disappeared without a trace in the early 70s - and ( Read more... )