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Now this was a fantasy novel I really enjoyed. I went in with no expectations at all, randomly chose it from my Kindle, and oh boy, was I in for a ride.

Assassin’s Quest

by Robin Hobb · published 1997 · last read 2024-06-16

Concluding the first part of the trilogy trilogy, I still liked it. Yes, it's slowly paced high fantasy, yes, the protagonist is not a Mary Sue at all (whiny and annoying, more like), yes, the conclusion is a bit deus-ex-machina - I still l

The Dragon Keeper

by Robin Hobb · published 2009 · read 2024-08-18

The start of a new series, this is quite good – but it’s not nearly as good as Robin Hobb can write. The book is mostly character setup for the rest of the series, which results in some odd pacing choices. Following a group of teens is … al

The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince

by Robin Hobb · published 2013 · read 2024-08-13

Novella set in the Elderlings saga, telling the story of how the gift of the Wit came to be despised. Pretty cool point of view character (playmate to the princess, wet-nurse to the prince), and neat context, but also ultimately predictable

In the Stacks (Maisie’s Tune)

by Robin Sloan · published 2023 · read 2023-01-11

Cute little story. Bonus points for the vibes and the actual playable interactive part, but somehow, despite the aging and the library and the everything, it felt superficial and didn't grab me. It's really well-done! Just, I admire it from

Lord of Light

by Roger Zelazny · published 1967 · read 2021-03-15

Lord of Light is hard to describe without spoilers up to the last third of the book, so I won't even try. You have been warned: hic sunt ~~dracones~~ spoilers. Even adding this book to my "space monks" list is technically a spoiler.

Creatures of Light and Darkness

by Roger Zelazny · published 1969 · read 2022-01-21

Very Zelazny – I had hoped, after liking Lord of Light a lot, that something similar would work equally well. And it's somewhat similar, superficially. Egypt religion instead of Indian, but regardless, high-powered gods with their own age

Nine Princes in Amber

by Roger Zelazny · published 1970 · read 2020-06-29

I wish I could have liked Nine Princes in Amber. It has a lot going for it: It is Fantasy, but very nonstandard, all the while playing with the default Fantasy tropes. It's unapologetically weird. I adored the weirdness. I could even ha

A Night in the Lonesome October

by Roger Zelazny · published 1993 · last read 2024-10-31

I love this book to pieces, to the point of ~~making~~, uh, encouraging my book club to read it with me, as intended, one chapter a day through the whole October. It’s a delight. Sure, a bit cutesy in places, and way too genre-aware to be t

Sultana’s Dream

by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain · published 1905 · read 2018-02-11

Delightful role inversion.

The Steerswoman

by Rosemary Kirstein · published 1989 · read 2020-02-29

Gooood Fantasy! Highly likable characters, good world, good plot, excellent eye for detail. The concept of a mostly-female order/guild/group of scientifically minded truth seekers is very cool, and yet not overdone. Science Fantasy in an

The Jungle Books

by Rudyard Kipling · published 1894 · read 2008-11-01

Poems. If you ask me, the only relevant part of the Jungle Books are the poems. Which is enough, because they are a lot. Everything else has not aged very well.

Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling · published 1902 · read 2010-06-01

Pretty language expressing some sweet stories and some racism and other bullshit. If you want to read these to a child, go through them first and look at what you want to edit (except if you're good enough to do that on the fly, of course).

Light from Uncommon Stars

by Ryka Aoki · published 2021 · read 2024-12-04

Every minute I spent reading this book was a minute that I could have read trashy bad fanfics that still have more nuance, plot, character and consistent world-building than whatever this was. I don’t even know where to start. The writin

The City of Brass

by S.A. Chakraborty · published 2017 · read 2021-09-04

Set in Napoleonic Egypt, this is the story of Djinn, Daeva and related beings. Didn't do much for me – the concept of a hidden city of supernatural beings with tons of infighting sounded intriguing, and the stagesetting very promising, but.

Escape from Baghdad!

by Saad Hossain · published 2012 · read 2020-06-14

tl;dr: Fun, violence, fun.

Ink

by Sabrina Vourvoulias · published 2012 · read 2019-03-31

Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias is okay urban dystopic fantasy with a critical stance towards important issues within the US, mostly concerning latinx population and immigration. It touches on these issues beautifully, but came off a bit heavy

City of Lies

by Sam Hawke · published 2018 · read 2021-06-13

White-hat assassin siblings have to defend the realm. It's a bit generic. Good parts: the role of the protagonist as defensive poison expert (unusual and refreshing), and a well-handled siege story. The truly stand-out part of the story was

Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett · published 1952 · last read 2010-04-07

Waiting for Godot showed me how free literature was, and the things a determined author can do with and through (and arguably to) a group of actors. I like it for this learning impact, a lot.

Empire Star

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1966 · last read 2023-07-20

Second book by Samuel Delany, second book I positively adore. Thoroughly impressive, I don't think I've highlighted this much in any book in the past year, and it's a really short book at that. Describing it wouldn't do it justice, and so

Dhalgren

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1975 · read 2019-07-11

Asking me to rate Dhalgren by Samuel Delany is like asking me to rate Kafka's Process. I'm sure that they are both good books, objectively. I'm sure they are good books to many people out there. I can recognize their excellent languag

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1971 · read 2019-09-29

I think, despite all its brilliance and cleverness, the best thing about Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany is the playfulness. It's a short story that's won both the Hugo and the Nebula Awards back in

Nova

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1968 · last read 2023-08-29

Nova by Samuel Delany was alright – a beautiful space opera telling the story of a captain and is impromptu crew in a well-thought, well-described future a thousand years from now. I can't really say why it didn't grip me as much as other

Babel-17

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1966 · last read 2023-07-30

It's been a long time (apart from Too Like The Lightning) that I've read a novel that felt so tailored to me like Babel-17. I mean, it's a queer polyamorous scifi novel where linguistics are key, even to winning space battles, which the

Tales of Nevèrÿon

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1979 · read 2023-01-25

What a grand adventure. The tale of Gorgik, starting out free, becoming enslaved, working his way out of slavery through court and the military. The tale of Small Sarg, his friend, partner, slave, master, and them defeating slave-owners. No

Bread and Wine

by Samuel R. Delany · published 1999 · read 2024-11-11

Chip meets Dennis, who lives on the street. It’s everything. It’s romantic, it’s hot, it’s matter-of-fact. It only gets better by knowing they are still together. I’m not usually one for graphic novels (graphic novellas?), but this one … yu

Thus Was Adonis Murdered

by Sarah Caudwell · published 1981 · read 2019-12-19

This book sports a dry humour that's a lot of fun to read. The self-important unreliable narrator is incredibly well done, and makes for an unusual and fun narrative arc. I'm not a big fan of mysteries, so I wasn't all that interested in wh

Bread and Milk and Salt

by Sarah Gailey · published 2018 · read 2018-11-12

I like: Bread and Milk and Salt by Sarah Gailey is a delightfully creepy and scary fairytale short story. It's online, so there's no excuse for not reading it – it's definitely worth it.

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2019 · read 2021-06-15

Sarah Pinsker writes excellent short stories. This collection opens with some shorter stories, which I found too short: They ended before anything could happen, all just setting up a scenario, then leaving me hungry for something:

Two Truths and a Lie

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2020 · read 2022-03-01

Horror is not my genre, so I feel out of my depth in reviewing this story. It stuck with me, though – I'm writing this review nine months after I read it, and I still remember the story, the characters (the lying protagonist, the creepy U

And Then There Were (N-One)

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2017 · read 2018-02-02

A multiverse scifi story! A convention of variations of the protagonist meet up – they discover divergence points, similarities, identities, and a body (of course, you did catch the Agatha Christie reference?).

A Better Way of Saying

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2021 · read 2022-03-02

Magic born in the silent movies, or rather, in the people reading out the dialog cards in movie theatres. Creative, fun, nice commentary on the power of language and editors (did Pinsker write this to appease her own editors? who knows). I

Wind Will Rove

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2017 · read 2018-02-24

Very nice scifi about an intergenerational conflict on a multi(think >100) generational spaceship, focussing on music, both the people keeping old music alive, and the younger people rejecting history. I liked the setting and world build

We Are Satellites

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2021 · read 2022-04-02

Let this website attest that I like Sarah Pinsker a lot – I'm not a short story person in general, and I love hers. That said: I wasn't a fan of this book. Her usual skill with small scenes and emotional gut punches showed, but the plot w

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2021 · read 2022-08-10

Sarah Pinsker's done it again: great story, this one in the form of forum/footnote discussions about a creepy creepy old English poem. Won awards for a reason, very well done. This book is part of the [2022 Backlog Incident](/p/2022-ba

A Song for a New Day

by Sarah Pinsker · published 2019 · read 2023-01-22

This is not a bad book, and I like Sarah Pinsker a lot. I liked it, and it put my biggest worry at rest: that she wouldn't manage the transition from amazing short stories well. Her plot arc might be a bit wobbly, but her character work is

Asches to Asches

by Scott Alexander · published 2014 · read 2019-09-20

What is truth, quoth Pontius Pilate. Asches to Asches is one of those witty stories by Scott Alexander. It illustrates precisely the source of my anxiety when reading non-fiction: I think I can be conned into believing anything if yo

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

by Scott Alexander · published 2017 · read 2019-09-20

What is it with rationalist fiction and that stilted style? Can't people make an argument without sounding like badly written robot hybrids? Ars Longa, Vita Brevis is not one of Scott Alexander's best stories. Skippable, to me, because t

It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue

by Scott Alexander · published 2015 · read 2019-09-20

Speak about writing to a narrow target demographic: This is a rationalist short story by Scott Alexander, exploring the impact of logic and colonialisation on an island tribe. KIDDING! While technically correct, it is also false, and I can'

The Library at Mount Char

by Scott Hawkins · published 2015 · read 2019-04-09

It's always fun finding out that everything you assumed about a book is wrong – I had this pleasure with The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. It was beyond not what I expected (shame on me for having preconceived notions of wha

The Lies of Locke Lamora

by Scott Lynch · published 2006 · read 2016-10-19

Gripping heist adventures in a unique and well-built world: Locke, Jean, Bug, the twins and Chains grew close to my heart really soon. There is a phase in the beginning where the book is going slowly and the characters don't mean anything

The Republic of Thieves

by Scott Lynch · published 2013 · read 2018-06-11

This was terrific. We get Locke, Jean, and Sabetha, their backstory (Scott pulls off the old past-present alternating chapters well), and a contest with unfair rules and unfairer outcome. I loved how, again, Scott makes clear that the women

Red Seas Under Red Skies

by Scott Lynch · published 2007 · read 2017-05-15

3.5 stars for me, a really, really solid follow-up to a wonderful first part. Excited for the last one.

Every Heart a Doorway

by Seanan McGuire · published 2016 · read 2018-10-06

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire is a nice little fantasy tale of the place where children go after going through a Door to Another Place (Fairylands, for example), and then coming back. It's short, and sweet, and sad, and gruesome

Down Among the Sticks and Bones

by Seanan McGuire · published 2017 · read 2019-01-03

I loved everything about Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire. I think I might like it even better than the first volume, and knowing about the future makes the book even better – I bet it works without the added layer, t

In an Absent Dream

by Seanan McGuire · published 2019 · read 2019-09-23

As with every book by Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream is full of charm and wit and very real observations about how children work. As a part of the Wayward Children series, we follow yet another child into a Door to a place tha

Come Tumbling Down

by Seanan McGuire · published 2020 · read 2020-01-26

I liked Come Tumbling Down okay, but I feel it repeated previous plots. The worldbuilding and writing was still good, but I felt that character growth was taking place mostly between books. Both the boys involved were useless for most of th

Beneath the Sugar Sky

by Seanan McGuire · published 2018 · read 2019-05-10

While Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire was yet another pleasant entry in the Wayward Children series, it didn't grab me nearly as much as the previous novellas. I'm not into Candyland in the first place, or that of the troupe

The Light Ages

by Seb Falk · published 2020 · read 2021-08-06

Seb Falk follows the reconstructed life story of one particular English monk, John Westwyk, to show off how life and particularly science and research worked in the High Middle Ages. This means a lot of tangents, naturally, but it also mean

Spellslinger

by Sebastien de Castell · published 2017 · read 2024-01-03

Incredibly annoying. Every twist signalled miles in advance (hint: the society subjugating some of its people based on who has magic or not? Not great, it turns out), a random cowboy lady introducing the worst tonal dissonance, more predict

Night Watch

by Sergei Lukyanenko · published 1998 · read 2010-01-01

Russian Urban Fantasy. Amazing – the characters were alright, but the world building was excellent and the plot was at least above average. I enjoyed the whole series a lot, and the 90s Russia vibes were impressive.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

by Seth Dickinson · published 2015 · read 2019-05-05

I loved The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. I don't even know where to start. Our protagonist is a young girl in a "primitive" country when the story starts. Her country is annexed by the big empire next door by economic and

The Monster Baru Cormorant

by Seth Dickinson · published 2018 · read 2019-05-08

I really liked The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. It was provided to me as a review copy by the publisher. Some parts were weaker than the first part of the series, which was rich due to its time skips and introduction into

Laws of Night and Silk

by Seth Dickinson · published 2016 · read 2022-09-19

Short story by Seth Dickinson, who feels like an author who attacks the ever-same problem from varying angles. Made me emotional. Omelas vibes (which is tough, because suddenly the story feels worse, the language too flowery, the gestures h

survival is a talent

by ShanaStoryteller · published 2024 · last read 2024-10-30

Solid fanfic. Hypercompetent kids get a bit much sometimes, maybe, but competence porn is a thing I’m happily falling victim to sometimes, so this is just a nice read when I want to be reassured that sometimes people are competent and have

Don We Now Our Gay Apparel: Gay Men’s Dress in the Twentieth Century

by Shaun Cole · published 2000 · read 2020-02-18

This book is a treasure! It follows the history of gay men's dress from the days of Oscar Wilde to the 90s, and by necessity along the way explains the cultural changes in and around gay groups. It explains hidden and implicit cultural mea

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson · published 1962 · read 2019-03-21

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson is very "what did I just read"? It's a weird horror short story, in a way, that makes vrey good use of the first-person narrator. Soft and slow horror, coupled with very good informati

Growing Old in the Middle Ages

by Shulamith Shahar · published 2002 · read 2023-01-27

Old age was generally precarious and on the margins in the Middle Ages. However, the status and practical circumstances of old people varied by country, century, class, identity and so on, and the results are a fascinating study in options.

Safety Anarchist

by Sidney Dekker · published 2017 · read 2025-03-09

★☆☆☆☆ (did not finish)

You’d think that this book would be catnip for me: The premise (compliance and security theatre has grown way too much, rules like that are good at preventing some accidents but not others, give people some agency and watch how they’ll make

For He Can Creep

by Siobhan Carroll · published 2019 · read 2020-02-12

Cat-lovers, take note: This short story lovingly combines cat stereotypes, and then goes two steps further. Very enjoyable.

Independent Study

by SomewheresSword · published 2020 · last read 2024-02-13

Actually sweet fanfic. Things happen, most of them are not nonsensical, the fluff is somewhat earned and slow to build. Good finale, but then drags on into an overly excessive (even by fanfic standards) happily-ever-after. Anywho, fun. T

Lily’s Boy

by SomewheresSword · published 2020 · last read 2024-02-21

Again, actually nice fanfic – same author as the last one, so that's not too surprising. Covers the whole story. Bit standard and boring in places, but then picks up, with some actual foreshadowing. Cedric's death

The Same, But Different

by SomewheresSword · published 2020 · read 2023-02-07

This author just gets queer fanfics. Nice takes on reincarnation, dysphoria, old wisdom and new hormones. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.

Romanitas

by Sophia McDougall · published 2005 · read 2020-07-29

After reading The Dragon Waiting, I wanted more Alternate History, and Romanitas seemed like an obvious choice. It's, to say it with the [recommendation](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fa

Solaris

by Stanisław Lem · published 1961 · read 2013-11-01

Solaris is creepy, but in a good way. One of the relatively few earlier scifi books that spoke to me. A bit too kafkaesque for my taste, maybe, but good execution nevertheless. The foggy planet is creepy even before it starts doing things.

Die Stimme des Herrn

by Stanisław Lem · published 1968 · read 2022-04-24

Did not finish. Dense, philosophical, felt deeply pointless and like I was just waiting for it to be over. The alien message gets never decoded, and everything is grey and sucks. This book is part of the [2022 Backlog Incident](/p/2022-b

Ein Drei-Tassen-Problem

by Stefan Winges · published 2014 · read 2022-01-27

Sherlock Holmes, just German and in the 1920s. If that sounds exciting to you, uh, here you go? I'm not kidding it's really straight up Sherlock, just in Cologne. There's a Mrs Hudson, the story is told from the point of view of his flatmat

Joseph Fouché

by Stefan Zweig · published 1929 · read 2008-07-01

Stefan Zweig just has a way with words, and his biography of Joseph Fouché taught me more about Napoleon's France (and the France before and afterwards) than my history lessons ever did.

Chess Story

by Stefan Zweig · published 1942 · read 2007-06-01

Mandatory reading in many German schools. Not all that exciting a read, unless you are into chess or the art for of the novella tackling the rise of fascism and the cost of obsession.

The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig · published 1941 · read 2008-12-01

Autobiographical memories of Zweig's youth in Austrian empire Vienna, as an intellectual jew. Balancing on the line between "elegant" and "overly flowery", late-life Zweig had surprisingly turned into a fan of the monarchy. He's busy romant

Anti-Ice

by Stephen Baxter · published 1993 · read 2019-09-25

I finally read a book by Stephen Baxter! Anti-Ice seems like it should be very much down my road: Victorians! In space! Science! Alternate history!

Song of Susannah

by Stephen King · published 2004 · read 2017-06-22

Dark Tower just doesn't stop wowing me.

The Wind Through the Keyhole

by Stephen King · published 2012 · read 2018-02-17

Loved it. Both the inner and the outer stories took me right back.

Wizard and Glass

by Stephen King · published 1997 · read 2017-06-16

Oh man, story time! Looking back into Roland's youth made this a tremendous book.

11/22/63

by Stephen King · published 2011 · read 2018-10-09

I found 11/22/63 a good time travel story (Would you give five years of your life to stop the JFK assassination, given the chance?). Stephen King, as always, excells at the depiction of real, gritty human life with all its ups and dow

The Dark Tower

by Stephen King · published 2004 · read 2017-06-24

A really, really good end to the series. Wow.

The Gunslinger

by Stephen King · published 1982 · read 2017-05-30

Wow. I read King's revised version from when he had finished the series, and it's stunning. I need to read the rest. It's what Firefly is to sci-fi: the fantasy edition, and so much fun, and with wonderful characters, and … wow.

Carrie

by Stephen King · published 1974 · read 2018-08-26

Carrie was a good book, and I think its biggest failing was that it felt like a great book that followed a blueprint to greatness. But you can't say that the blueprint doesn't work – because it does. Carrie is one of those horror books

Wolves of the Calla

by Stephen King · published 2003 · read 2017-06-20

I can't describe what King's books do to me.

The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King · published 1987 · read 2017-06-03

Not quite as brilliant as the first volume in my mind, but still extremely good. Expanding the universe, introducing Susannah and Eddie (boy is he annoying though), and pushing ever onwards.

The Waste Lands

by Stephen King · published 1991 · read 2017-06-05

4.5 – This one was a bit slow, I thought, but it stil pushd the story on briliantly. I loved the play between worlds, and man was Charlie the Choo-Choo creepy.

Full Dark, No Stars

by Stephen King · published 2010 · read 2016-10-26

So, thriller is most definitely not my genre, but I can't deny that Stephen King is a master - both in his genre and with words in general. He paints incredibly vivid people, murdering for reasons they think right, and dealing with the cons

The Little Sisters of Eluria

by Stephen King · published 1998 · read 2017-12-25

I liked returning to Roland quite a lot, and while you can read the story without any knowledge of the larger series, there are SERIOUS SPOILERS CONTAINED wtf Mr King. Otherwise creepy in a nice way.

The Jaunt

by Stephen King · published 1981 · read 2022-08-14

Classic sci-fi horror short story. Read it too late, when I had read more than one work that had built on it, so it didn't feel all that special anymore. But Stephen King always just … gets people right, to the point that the story is optio

By the Waters of Babylon

by Stephen Vincent Benét · published 1937 · read 2018-02-11

Post apocalyptic. Not my thing.

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer · published 2005 · read 2008-10-01

First famous for the bad love story and the sparkling vampire, then famous for the SM fanfic. I dutifully read it right when I was the correct age and hated it.

Transforming your self

by Steve Andreas · published 2002 · read 2023-02-25

Reviewing this book a year and a half after reading it is rough, because I … barely remember reading it, tbh. But after going through my notes, a lot of it seeped into my thoughts, especially the attitude of “don’t try to do the thing, inst

Jhereg

by Steven Brust · published 1983 · read 2022-11-11

Really, really good. Vlad is cool, but more importantly, so is everybody else. There is clearly a lot of worldbuilding to come, but I wasn't bothered by the book dropping a huge reveal with too little context: The whole thing was too fun an

Yendi

by Steven Brust · published 1984 · read 2023-03-15

Prequel to the first book, showing Vlad's beginnings. I continue to be super into the series, and i already know I'll have to re-read it in the end to catch all the connections, the politics, the relationships. Also we see Vlad and Cawti ge

Gardens of the Moon

by Steven Erikson · published 1999 · read 2019-01-05

I did not finish Gardens of the Moon – I gave up after a month, and that's saying something with 180+ read things in 2018. I just wasn't feeling it. It dragged on and on and on and – I'm sure this is a good book to many, and I have the feel

Jumper

by Steven Gould · published 1992 · read 2017-06-28

Ehh, to me, it was a really nice idea (guy can jump everywhere, woo teleportation), but so horribly Mary Sue'd that I nearly didn't finish the book. Eugh.

Stoker’s Wilde

by Steven Hopstaken · published 2019 · read 2021-03-14

Imagine, if you will, Bram Stoker: a dour, somewhat dull man who is always out of place in the illustrious company of his fellow fantastical authors – like a clerk joining a circus. Do you really believe that this man came up with Dracula

Where Good Ideas Come from

by Steven Johnson · published 2010 · read 2020-04-11

This book has got a couple of good things to say (be playful, be prolific, facilitate accidents and clashes), and tells a bunch of really neat anecdotes of past inventions and big ideas. I don't really think the anecdotes are good arguments

The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone

by Steven Sloman · published 2017 · read 2020-01-03

I finally finished The Knowledge Illusion. The five stars here are given despite the writing: It annoyed me a lot, but the thoughts in the book are important enough that they changed my thinking on some issues, so five stars are appropria

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson · published 2005 · read 2016-02-01

Ohh, this book made me uncomfortable, and I finished it rather fast because it absolutely would not wait.

Harleen

by Stjepan Šejić · published 2020 · read 2020-02-29

Stjepan Šejić is a brilliant artist, and he's done right by Harley Quinn. Good origin story, great writing, and brilliant artwork. I'm not really one for graphic novels and even I can tell that this goes above and beyond.

The Cry of the Icemark

by Stuart Hill · published 2005 · read 2009-01-01

One of my favourite fantasy books back in the day. Thirrin, at age 14(?) becomes the warrior queen of the Icemark, and has to find allies and prepare for war and invasion. Thirrin is far from perfect, but ferocious and amazing. Her friends

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke · published 2004 · last read 2022-08-13

First book I'm really sad that I'm reviewing it only so much later: I'd have more thoughts to share if I hadn't waited so long. This was my second attempt at reading this book – I bounced off hard at the slow pace and the stuffy old men the

Piranesi

by Susanna Clarke · published 2020 · read 2024-01-12