Title: Time of Contempt (The Witcher Book 4)
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Translator: David French
Published: London: Orbit, 2013 (1995)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 330
Total Page Count: 205,160
Text Number: 607
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: Picking up where the previous book left off, the ( Read more... )

Title: The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland—For a Little While (Fairyland Novella)
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Published: New York: Tor, 2011
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 30
Total Page Count: 204,305
Text Number: 604
Read Because: continuing the series, free on Tor.com
Review: Long before the events of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, Mallow lives a ( Read more... )

Stonehearst Asylum/Eliza Graves, film, 2014, dir. Brad Anderson ( Read more... )

These are many months belated, and I am ashamed—but better late and incomplete than nothing, because what I don't record I'll forget I watched and never be able to recommend. The takeaways from this batch were: Ravenous, a cult movie that I'm surprised I hadn't encountered before because it is such fun—it feels like it should have overlap with the ( Read more... )

In bulk again, to prevent spamming again. And I'm still not caught up! I've been reading a lot, but more than that I've had a lot to say—about The Witcher, because I'm so invested in Ciri and her family and because I've watched Devon play the games and so we've had a lot to discuss about adaptation; about The Cursed Child, not because it's remotely ( Read more... )

Title: Forty Thousand in Gehenna (Unionside Book 1)
Author: C.J. Cherryh
Published: New York: Daw Books, 1984 (1983)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 445
Total Page Count: 201,290
Text Number: 593
Read Because: fan of the author/bond animal trope, purchased used from Powell's (as a gift from
( Read more... )

Title: The Last Wish (The Witcher Book 1)
Author: Andrzej Sapkowski
Translator: Danusia Stok
Published: London, Orbit: 2008 (1990)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 380
Total Page Count: 199,730
Text Number: 589
Read Because: familiar with the video game series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: As Geralt recovers from an injury, ( Read more... )

Title: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Published: New York: Magic Carpet Books, 1996 (1974)
Rating: 5 of 5
Page Count: 340
Total Page Count: 193,760
Text Number: 570
Read Because: fan of the author, purchased used from The Book Bin
Review: A distant wizard woman charged with the keeping of a menagerie of Beasts is drawn ( Read more... )

Title: Rose Daughter
Author: Robin McKinley
Published: New York: Ace, 1998 (1997)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 290
Total Page Count: 189,550
Text Number: 555
Read Because: reread, borrowed from Dee
Review: A retelling of Beauty and the Beast, about three lively sisters and a cottage covered in roses. Once upon a time, this was one of the first ( Read more... )

Title: Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders Book 1)
Author: Robin Hobb
Published: New York: Del Rey, 2004 (1999)
Rating: 4 of 5
Page Count: 800
Total Page Count: 186,520
Text Number: 548
Read Because: continuing the Realm of the Elderlings, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: The Liveship Vivacia awakes to sentience while ( Read more... )