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Kent State by Deborah Wiles
Summer 2021 (June);
Fall School Bookclub Pre-Read
This was so beautiful and so harrowing. I love how this was written, with so many different voices and points of views intersecting at all times. I think I made the best decision in deciding to listen to it, because the narrative is in story and relating, but also in deeply acknowledging how different these people are, how unique and varied the voices themselves in sounding in the use of these words.
Fall School Bookclub Pre-Read
This was so beautiful and so harrowing. I love how this was written, with so many different voices and points of views intersecting at all times. I think I made the best decision in deciding to listen to it, because the narrative is in story and relating, but also in deeply acknowledging how different these people are, how unique and varied the voices themselves in sounding in the use of these words.
Never, Never Quit by Karen Hallion
Summer 2021 (May);
Kickstarted book by Hallion. This was so adorable and absolutely worth it. I loved getting to see her personal-character younger, trying to find her way with inspiration and challenges all along the way. I loved all the fandoms in little easter eggs everywhere. I will buy everything I can of hers.
Kickstarted book by Hallion. This was so adorable and absolutely worth it. I loved getting to see her personal-character younger, trying to find her way with inspiration and challenges all along the way. I loved all the fandoms in little easter eggs everywhere. I will buy everything I can of hers.
Guardians of the Galaxy/All-New X-Men: The Trial of Jean Grey by Brian Michael Bendis
2021 Summer (July);
Reread of Baby!Jean Arc
Most of these were read in a blur of summer bliss in a hammock in a backyard garden as I finally followed up on my original reads of the baby!Jean storyline that I'd gotten half into before falling out of again. I really do continue to love this storyline mostly for her.
This one is delightful in the fact it continues the warpath the Shi'ar went on after Jean died, when they originally killed everyone in her genetic line in case The Phoenix might return to her line. This time, they put baby Jean up for trial on the genocide caused by her older self back in [b:X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga|103111|X-Men The Dark Phoenix Saga|Chris Claremont|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409504820l/103111._SY75_.jpg|99407]. There are so many feelings here and I feel it's actually handled as being the crazy it sounds like.
Reread of Baby!Jean Arc
Most of these were read in a blur of summer bliss in a hammock in a backyard garden as I finally followed up on my original reads of the baby!Jean storyline that I'd gotten half into before falling out of again. I really do continue to love this storyline mostly for her.
This one is delightful in the fact it continues the warpath the Shi'ar went on after Jean died, when they originally killed everyone in her genetic line in case The Phoenix might return to her line. This time, they put baby Jean up for trial on the genocide caused by her older self back in [b:X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga|103111|X-Men The Dark Phoenix Saga|Chris Claremont|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409504820l/103111._SY75_.jpg|99407]. There are so many feelings here and I feel it's actually handled as being the crazy it sounds like.
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
Spring 2020 (March);
~ My Sisyphean Sanderson Challenge
I've known for a long time this was a short piece that won a Hugo earlier and I've been working my way toward these shorter pieces, between my vast novel reading through my challenge to read all Sanderson. It didn't disappoint in the slightest, of course (not that I had even a 5% doubt chancing that; Sanderson hasn't let me down in over 4o pieces now).
This is a delightful little story, told for the most part from inside a jail cell. I loved every bit of our plucky, wily heroine and the new magical system (of stamps, rewriting history, and the ability for it to work from solid objects to people). The ending surprise was a tiny touch predictable, but I'm finding that's true with a piece here and there in the first decade of Sanderson's work, but I'm glad it was in the way where it had me pumping my fist yes.
~ My Sisyphean Sanderson Challenge
I've known for a long time this was a short piece that won a Hugo earlier and I've been working my way toward these shorter pieces, between my vast novel reading through my challenge to read all Sanderson. It didn't disappoint in the slightest, of course (not that I had even a 5% doubt chancing that; Sanderson hasn't let me down in over 4o pieces now).
This is a delightful little story, told for the most part from inside a jail cell. I loved every bit of our plucky, wily heroine and the new magical system (of stamps, rewriting history, and the ability for it to work from solid objects to people). The ending surprise was a tiny touch predictable, but I'm finding that's true with a piece here and there in the first decade of Sanderson's work, but I'm glad it was in the way where it had me pumping my fist yes.
The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson
5.0
This was the first novel is the 2nd Era of Mistborn, taking place nearly 350 years after the first trilogy.
High on the PERFECT ENDING of the conclusion of the first trilogy, I felt two very different ways about heading into the other: one, that I was super excited because Sanderson proved his mastery and mettle and blew me over with so much I couldn't predict; and two, that I was nervous about heading into an all-new round of people and being so attached to the last crew.
Needless to say, we are now in the near-cowboys lands, as well as the modern society that's slowly progressing into the industrial age, as people are starting to have electric lights and motor cards, watching people negotiate the changing world around them. This one, again, was such a DELIGHT, and I love our three main new characters. I never predicted the big twist, but it had me cackling a little while out of delight and the terrible things that could fall out of it.
High on the PERFECT ENDING of the conclusion of the first trilogy, I felt two very different ways about heading into the other: one, that I was super excited because Sanderson proved his mastery and mettle and blew me over with so much I couldn't predict; and two, that I was nervous about heading into an all-new round of people and being so attached to the last crew.
Needless to say, we are now in the near-cowboys lands, as well as the modern society that's slowly progressing into the industrial age, as people are starting to have electric lights and motor cards, watching people negotiate the changing world around them. This one, again, was such a DELIGHT, and I love our three main new characters. I never predicted the big twist, but it had me cackling a little while out of delight and the terrible things that could fall out of it.