April 2012
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TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #14: Oryx and Crake by...
I’m a huge fan of Margaret Atwood, despite the fact that I’ve only read The Handmaid’s Tale and The Blind Assassin. It’s rare to come across a writer who can build worlds and characters equally well, and her lyrical writing style is absolutely gorgeous. Every time I read one of Atwood’s novels, I am deeply affected, and Oryx and Crake is no exception.
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TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #10 #11 #12 #13: The...
My Vertigo tarot deck recently reminded me that I’d been meaning to read The Books of Magic for quite some time (due to some BoM artwork on the cards, my tarot isn’t actually psychic or anything). I’m only four volumes in, and apparently my local library doesn’t have the fifth book. I’m really on the fence about continuing with the series. It hasn’t held up...
TheFatling’s #CBR4 Review #9: The Martians by Kim...
As a fan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s excellent Mars trilogy, which chronicles man’s colonization of Mars in painstaking detail, I had been meaning to read The Martians for quite some time. I read two of the short stories in the collection a while ago, but found myself put off by the fact that one of them (“Maya and Desmond”) didn’t fit into the chronology of the...
