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Tag Archives: review
NYT Otherworldly Column: Princesses, Priestesses and Time Travel
Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s THE MERRY SPINSTER, Aliette de Bodard’s THE TEA MASTER AND THE DETECTIVE, Kelly Robson’s GODS, MONSTERS, AND THE LUCKY PEACH, and Tessa Gratton’s THE QUEENS OF INNIS LEAR Continue reading
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Tagged aliette de bodard, column, daniel mallory ortberg, kelly robson, nytimes, review, tessa gratton
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First OTHERWORLDLY column at the NYT Book Review
My first column for the NYTBR is here! The print version will be in this week’s Sunday edition. In it I review Del and Sofia Samatar’s Monster Portraits, Subterranean Press’ Weight of Words anthology, and Jo Walton’s Starlings. Here’s a taste: More than any … Continue reading
NPR Reviews: Nnedi Okorafor’s THE NIGHT MASQUERADE and Kim Purcell’s THIS IS NOT A LOVE LETTER
A couple of reviews I wrote went up on NPR these last couple of weeks! Here are samplings of them: Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor The Night Masquerade picks up where Home left off, with Binti learning, through her newly enhanced … Continue reading
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Tagged kim purcell, nnedi okorafor, novel, npr, review, reviewing
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NPR Review: THIS MORTAL COIL by Emily Suvada
Nothing quite signals the approaching end of the year like the number of reviews I have left to write. This is probably the last one I’ll do (though won’t be the last one to appear), and it’s fitting that it … Continue reading
NYT Review: THE POWER by Naomi Alderman
If you blinked at the title, well, I’ve been doing that for about a week. I wrote a review for the New York Times. It’s my first time doing so. Many thanks to Bo Bolander for securing me a print … Continue reading
NPR Reviews: AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS by Rivers Solomon and THE RULES OF MAGIC by Alice Hoffman
So many amazing books have come out these last two months, and it’s been my privilege to read and discuss them. Here are another two. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon When I finished An Unkindness of Ghosts and put it … Continue reading
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Tagged alice hoffman, novel, npr, review, reviewing, rivers solomon
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NPR Reviews: SHADOWHOUSE FALL by Daniel José Older + AUTONOMOUS by Annalee Newitz
More reviews! So many reviews! First, my review of Daniel José Older’s Shadowhouse Fall: Everything I loved about Shadowshaper is found in Shadowhouse Fall, but sharper and fiercer, pushed harder and farther. The love and loyalty Sierra and her friends feel for each other … Continue reading
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Tagged annalee newitz, daniel josé older, novel, npr, review, reviewing
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NPR Review: THE RIVER BANK by Kij Johnson
My review of Kij Johnson’s The River Bank, delightfully illustrated by Kathleen Jennings, is up at NPR Books! Here’s a taste: The River Bank is set a year after the events of The Wind in the Willows, and takes up its familiar, much-beloved characters … Continue reading
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Tagged kathleen jennings, kij johnson, novella, npr, reading, review, reviewing
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Lightspeed Column: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST’S DAUGHTER and THE REFRIGERATOR MONOLOGUES
The September issue of Lightspeed magazine contains, among many other fine things, a column in which I review Theodora Goss’ The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and Catherynne M. Valente’s The Refrigerator Monologues. These books make a beautiful double bill, and reading … Continue reading
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Tagged catherynne m valente, lightspeed, novel, novella, review, reviewing, theodora goss
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NPR Review: THE STONE SKY by N. K. Jemisin
I’m still in the process of assembling something like All the News of All the Things that have happened over the first two weeks of this month, and fully intend for those to go up starting Monday — but this … Continue reading