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Showing posts with label blog: reading project tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog: reading project tuesday. Show all posts
15 July 2025

Hugos 2025: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky Originally published: 2024 Acquired: May 2025 Read: July 2025 Cover blurb...
08 July 2025

Hugos 2025: A Sorceress Comes to Call by Ursula Vernon

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I have enjoyed a lot of previous books and stories by T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon, but this one didn't do it for me at all. I find it a ...
17 June 2025

Hugos 2025: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

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I try to approach Hugo finalists with as few expectations as possible. If I don't know anything about a book going in, I try to keep tha...
10 June 2025

Hugos 2025: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

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One of my goals in reading Hugo finalists is to gain more exposure to contemporary writers of great sf&f—otherwise, I am perpetually beh...
03 June 2025

Hugos 2025: What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

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Ursula Vernon (who usually writes for adults or even YA audiences as "T. Kingfisher") has been one of my favorite discoveries from...
27 May 2025

Hugos 2025: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky has his devoted fans— 2015's Children of Time , which I read for the first time last year, has many adherents!—but it...
20 May 2025

Hugos 2025: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell

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This was the first finalist I read for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. It's a fantasy novel about a monster who lives in the woods in a f...
13 May 2025

Hugos 2025: "Lake of Souls" and Other Stories by Ann Leckie

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Lake of Souls collects all of the short fiction by sf&f writer Ann Leckie to date; compared to some writers (say, Sarah Pinsker ), this...
06 May 2025

Hugos 2025: Star Trek: Warp Your Own Way by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio

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Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way Published: 2024 Acquired: December 2024 Read: April 2025 W...
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11 March 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. XVII–XIX (Chs. 52-62)

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I'm afraid my Dombey and Son project got away from me in February, both in the sense that I didn't get very much of it read, and it...
06 February 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. XV–XVI (Chs. 46-51)

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No. XV (chs. 46-48) She did not sink down at his feet; she did not shut out the sight of him with her trembling hands; she did not weep; she...
28 January 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. XIII–XIV (Chs. 39-45)

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No. XIII (chs. 39-41) Towards his first wife, Mr Dombey, in his cold and lofty arrogance, had borne himself like the removed Being he almost...
21 January 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. XI–XII (Chs. 32-38)

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No. XI (chs. 32-34) It’s entered on the ship’s log, and that’s the truest book as a man can write. (505) As I had kind of predicted, after ...
14 January 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. VIII–X (Chs. 23-31)

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No. VIII (Chs. 23-25) Sir Barnet and Lady Skettles, very good people, resided in a pretty villa at Fulham, on the banks of the Thames; which...
07 January 2025

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, No. V–VII (Chs. 14-22)

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No. V (Chs. 14-16) This deviates from the structure of the last couple installments. Instead of going Paul→Paul→someone else (probably Walte...
31 December 2024

Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, Nos. I–IV (Chs. 1-13)

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Every winter break, I read the most popular Charles Dickens novel that I haven't previously read. This year, that brings me to Dombey an...