Favorite Movie of the Week Kung Fu Panda (2008) I watched Kung Fu Panda a long time ago and remember really enjoying it. I don’t expect a lot from American…
Read more“Assassin’s Fate” by Robin Hobb
Warning: This review contains spoilers for the previous books in the Realm of the Elderlings series. Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings books are one of my favorite fantasy series’…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: May 7-13, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week The Science of Sleep (2006) We started watching The Science of Sleep in 2015, but I hadn’t watched a lot of movies then, and its…
Read more“City of Miracles” by Robert Jackson Bennett
I enjoyed the first two Divine Cities books (see my reviews of City of Stairs and City of Blades) so I was looking forward to see how City of Miracles…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Apr 30-May 6, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week Thelma and Louise (1991) I’ve been wanting to watch Thelma and Louise for a long time – it’s a classic, plus Ridley Scott is one…
Read more“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” by Matthew Desmond
I don’t usually read much nonfiction, but I was interested in Evicted because a few of the people I follow on LibraryThing wrote rave reviews of it on their threads.…
Read moreWeekly Movie Reviews: Apr 23-29, 2017
Favorite Movie of the Week Moonlight (2016) I knew we were going to have to watch Moonlight eventually, since it won the Oscar for Best Picture this year, but I…
Read more“The Waking Fire” by Anthony Ryan
Anthony Ryan has been on my wishlist for a long time, so I was excited to receive a copy of The Waking Fire from Ace recently. I’ve been reading a…
Read more“Snapshot” by Brandon Sanderson
Snapshot is a near-future science fiction novella set in a world where an entire city can be recreated virtually so that detectives can investigate crimes (kind of like the movie…
Read more“Within the Sanctuary of Wings” by Marie Brennan
I’m a huge fan of the Memoirs of Lady Trent series, and I’ve been waiting for this concluding volume, Within the Sanctuary of Wings, for a long time. This series…
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