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- jun - @J I had the same thought about the rhino. And he’s nearly drowned twice so far. @K I’m glad to...
- K - It was the passage of time between advances that really got me. On the one hand, yeah, Cal is a 15 year old...
- J - Wow. You’ve convinced me I made the right decision in not reading the rest. How many times does he nearly...
- J - True. Like we can’t rebuild our society without some cataclysmic tragedy to motivate us.
- K - I think part of the issue is that so many dystopian books are also post-apocalyptic. It’s often used as...
romance Archive
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Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller: B-
Posted on September 1, 2009 | 12 CommentsFrom the back cover: Early in the nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women did something unspeakable, something unheard of—they fell in love with each other. With nothing and no one to... -
Patience and Sarah (Isabel Miller)
Posted on August 20, 2009 | 3 CommentsThe Plot It’s 1816 and Patience White is a spinster whose father saw to it that she’d not be dependant upon the charity of her brother after his death. With food, money and a place... -
The Sharing Knife: Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold: B+
Posted on July 6, 2009 | 3 CommentsFrom the front flap: Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of... -
J’s Take on Patience and Sarah
Posted on June 27, 2009 | 2 CommentsIt's been a couple of weeks now since I finished reading Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller. I totally should've written the review right after I finished it. Or, at the least, taken notes. I know this, yet I'll probably repeat the same mistake anyway. Patience and Sarah is a historical novel about two women on [...] -
J’s Take on Sharing Knife: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold
Posted on May 16, 2009 | 2 CommentsHorizon is the fourth and final book in the Sharing Knife series by Lois McMaster Bujold. Having reached the bottom of the river, Dag and Fawn go off to see if he can get some training from a Lakewalker healer. Wherein we learn a new term 'groundsetter', which I never did quite figure out. It seems [...]