lewis_fishman's reviews
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this was utterly bizarre

what i'd give to live in a miyazaki world

i think we've all had our duncan phase - mine was about live versions of kodaline's 'all i want' which i still think is a perfect song but i no longer religious seek out different live versions to find the perfect one.

so ive been putting this off for a while, not for want of trying, but just i wasn't in the place to be back into feist. given he has a new one coming out, i was glad i came back. i knew the next book was going to crossover with the riftwar saga, but then nathan appeared, then ruffio, and it was everything i loved about feist. yes, it's not the world greatest fantasy, and this one was a little skip over the action, but it was a simple happiness and im glad im back in feist world.

its a shame nick hornby things music more or less ended after 2000

sometimes all you need is matthew reilly for the hideous february weekends when the week has been exhausting and youve been in bed until 4pm, ya'know

met benjamin stevenson once many moons ago (jan 2022 i think) doing some publicity to some book stores giving out ARCs for this upcoming book, everybody in this family has killed someone. somehow, i was seen as the person who liked crime (for the record, not really a crime reader. i will dabble). i was pleasantly surprised by this one, and was pleasantly surprised by this one. jury is still out if crime is for me, but i had fun, and sometimes thats all a book needs. plus, even if it takes place on the ghan, its a break from the glut of outback noir pervading crime fiction bookshelves

so this is a book i read for work (i work at a bookstore within a library) and if this hadn't been the case, i don't think i would have come across it, and i am so glad i have. since my fnd diagnosis of may last year, and now retroactively applying a lot of my mystery pains, ailments and symptoms that have haunted for almost 13 years now, i didnt realise how much i had been missing out on having chronic illnesses seen in fiction, especially those which aren't visible. given that my particular brand of fnd presents as sensory symptoms, it looks like there's nothing wrong with me, and it's incredibly demoralising. i've been both frida and sylvia in this story, and still feel myself caught between the both, trying to find the narrow road to some form of recovery. thank you for writing this katherine

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