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When I was young and utterly in love with The Lord of the Rings films and The Hobbit book, I kept telling myself I would read The Silmarillion by the time I turned 18. In fact, I did not even read the entire The Lord of the Rings until I was 20 years old. Now I have read The Silmarillion, at 26 years old. I don’t regret waiting. While not as difficult as a read as I anticipated, the […]
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Some Changes Around Here: A Change to My Rating System This discussion post grew out of a response to Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction’s post about her rating system (above). Negative Reviews Nicole’s post addressed how, as an aspiring author, she has a different perspective on writing negative reviews than other book bloggers might. She has made the decision not to post such reviews on her blog. I don’t […]
I began this post as an ordinary review of A Conjuring of Light, the final book in V.E. Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy. I realized most of my thoughts stemmed from the frustration of reading a trilogy’s conclusion, so I’ve structured this post to reflect that. If you haven’t read the Shades of Magic trilogy, you can avoid spoilers and skip to the section “The Problem of a Trilogy” for some general discussion on multi-volume […]
I drafted this post back in January when I was trying to add a genre label to Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. I didn’t know what to tag it, so I took to Google and came across the term specfic, short for speculative fiction. I thought, “Aha, yes, that must be right! Wait, what about the other books I’ve labelled scifi? Is spec fiction a better label? What’s […]
How is it mid-June already?! I always find the first half of the year goes more quickly than the latter half, but this year has been on another level, filled with traveling and visitors and a new school year that started in April. 32 days until the last day of classes, and only 64 days until I go home. It concerns me a little that I’ve been in Japan for […]