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#WAYWARD CHILDREN#PLEASE#it's so danged good!!!#i eagerly await every new installment every year#i love the fascinating worlds she takes us to#and characters we meet#and they're so diverse and lovely and beautifully written (@only-by-the-stars)

#OH GOD#impossible decision. i went with wayward children bc i assumed it would be losing and i want to even the odds#i was right#but it's closer than i expected (@tiabwwtws)

#I think wot is one of the top seeds but vote it anyway#wheel of time#robert jordan (@anyboli)

#wayward children sweep!#in this house we love explorations of the beauty and sadness of portal fantasy (@nerdfaerie)

#aww vote for wayward children those kids deserve a win :( (@asexualbookbird)

#If you follow me you know what to vote (@kaarchin)

#Seana McGuire#Wayward Children#Wheel of Time?#more like Wheel of Snooze Time#Wheel of Time is great for insomnia (@middleearthorcseeksspaceorc)

#seeing seanans caption and then voting for wayward children and seeing that its at 72%#if wheel of time wanted to win robert jordan could get a tumblr 😤 (@iamanoccasionaldoodler)

#as someone who has read both this shouldn't be a competition sorry seanan's is better#i liked wheel of time but reading it was harder than reading rushdie on a time limit (@solitarelee)

#I've read neither#but I have heard good things about wayward children#whereas I have heard wheel of time described as#'nerd homework' that 'doesnt get good until book 7' (@jarl-deathwolf)

#I have read Wheel of Time#I have not read Wayward Children#...#I voted for Wayward Children (@pelahnar)

#ok look i get it wheel of time is like one of the big fantasy masterpieces#But#wayward children is about and for all the people who grow up loving books and stories and other worlds#and theyre all highly accessible and inclusive and sincere and FUN to read#wheel of time takes forever to get through and is good and fun but it doesnt feel like its FOR me#ive read every book in the wayward children series and they feel made for me#i am older than the target audience but those books fit in my heart so completely (@sometimesfairytale)

#as much as i love wot#and can credit it with introducing me to internet fandom#wayward children is so much better written#and i say this as someone whose tumblr username is the same one I had on the wotbf#so like#wot shaped a lot of who i am#but nostalgia does not equal quality (@nogling)

#love me both of these but wayward children always and forever#books (@heartsyhawk)

#ooof i autoclicked WoT#cause it's one of my all time favorites#then i saw it was up against#Wayward Children#and sure did feel conflicted that i couldn't have voted for both (@unadulteratedsuitphantom)

#reblogging again for the excellent breakdown of WoT#it’s so funny how far this skewed lol every other poll is like five to eight hundred votes total#and this one’s nearly ten times that at almost 5000#wot fandom i don’t know if we can gaslight gatekeep girlboss our way out of this one now (@amemoryofwot)

#WoT’s my main fandom but I can like both series!#voting for Wayward Children b/c it’s very good#also in apology for WoT fans being rude in the notes#idk if I know anyone who was acting out but I hope not (@highladyluck)

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The Unwomanly Face of War

Author: Svetlana Alexievich

First published: 1983

Pages: 372

Rating: ★★★★★

How long did it take: 12 days

No review is needed for this book. It is as gut-wrenching as any true voice crying out from the darkness of war. It also reminds one how alive, how near to our central and Eastern-European minds and hearts this particular war truly is still.

Across the Green Grass Fields

Author: Seana McGuire

First published: 2021

Pages: 174

Rating: ★★★★☆

How long did it take: 1 day

This is a lovely one. It seemed more for children than the rest of the series (to the point of being almost didactic), but I was glad of it. I was really in need of a "comfort" book and this one delivered on exactly that.

Vigée Le Brun

Author: various

First published: 2016

Pages: 288

Rating: ★★★★★

How long did it take: 1 day

This is a truly beautiful catalogue of works of celebrated during her life and yet somehow forgotten up until 1980s Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. I loved it. I have always been fond of portraits because they carry the stories of people in them as well as the stories of their creation. And Vigée Le Brun´s work truly appeals to my aesthetic tastes.

Solutions and Other Problems

Author: Allie Brosh

First published: 2020

Pages: 519

Rating: ★★★★☆

How long did it take: 1 day

Put a bitter-sweet smile on my face. Some parts hit me in the chest like a freight train.

You Had Me at Hola

Author: Alexis Daria

First published: 2020

Pages: 384

Rating: ★★★☆☆

How long did it take: 3 days

This was my first ever contemporary adult romance and... it was a pleasant experience. I am probably never going to be a big fan of the genre, but it was a welcome palate cleanser after some really depressing and emotionally (as well as mentally) taxing reads. The story was completely predictable, at times a little slow and dull, but I liked the characters, the Latinx representation and the wholesome feeling the book has throughout. And that cover is gorgeous.

Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917

Edited by: Louise McReynolds

First published: 1998

Pages: 448

Rating: ★★★☆☆

How long did it take: 7 days

If I should rate it for the educational value - educational as in getting a telling glimpse into a common mind of a common man in the Imperial Russia of the 19th century mostly - the rating would be high. If I should rate it for the literary value and quality of the included texts, it would be very low. Naturally, the excellent and interesting writing of the period has found its recognition (we have all heard of or read Tolstoy and Pushkin etc), and these are the scraps of what we might call "folk artistry" where the "art" part is really the least of the author´s concern. Many of the included text make a reader of today uncomfortable with its sexism, xenophobia, racism and antisemitism so I would advise some caution if you choose to read them. In any case, an interesting collection for anyone vested in researching the period.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Author: Susanna Clarke

First published: 2004

Pages: 1006

Rating: ★★★★☆

How long did it take: 22 days

This book is a delight of storytelling and plot gradation. Set in England during the time of Napoleon and Lord Wellington, it wonderfully combines the real historical characters and events with elements utterly other-worldly. And thus we see that Napoleon was defeated, among other things, by the "English" magic. The folklore of Great Britain is the basis for the rest of the plot and the source which the two magicians - Strange and Norrell - study and use to do their magic. The book has the social observance of custom and human flaws as penetrating and humorously presented as any Jane Austen novel yet at the same time Susanna Clarke conjures up scenes of complete desolation, terror and bleakness when she needs to. This book does many things at once and does them very, very well, no plot thread is useless and everything ties together in the end. Considering the length of the novel, it certainly takes you on a journey, starting off slow but being all the more rewarding to those who persevere. Just the ending I wished a bit different. For even though it makes complete sense, it was not as satisfying as I wanted it to be.

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Author: Ibram X. Kendi

First published: 2016

Pages: 582

Rating: ★★★★★

How long did it take: 12 days

Important and above all illuminating. I definitely learned a lot and it put many things I have already known into their correct context and perspective. A neccessary read for anyone living in European-based society.

Caravaggio

Author: Milo Manara

First published: 2015

Pages: 128

Rating: ★★★☆☆

How long did it take: 1 day

Geniální dílo Michelangela Caravaggia jsem objevila poměrně nedávno a byla jsem zcela nadšená. Tento komiks si jistě zaslouží ocenění za výtvarnou stránku a tím, že dýchne vším tím ošklivým, v čem Caravaggio žil, aniž by to narušilo jeho schopnost vnímat krásu. Odhalených zadnic a poprsí je na 120 stránkách bohužel tolik, že je jasné, že Milo Manara si je prostě nedokázal odpustit, ne proto, že by byly pro příběh nějak zásadní, což je vždycky problematické. Celkově zajímavě zpracovaný příběh o jednom nenormálním leč skutečně talentovaném umělci od jiného poněkud sexem-posedlého talentovaného umělce. Jen je vtipné, že mezi všemi těmi nahotinkami není jediný náznak Caravaggiovi bisexuality, ne-li přímo homosexuality. Na to asi Manara neměl dost odvahy.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Author: V.E. Schwab

First published: 2020

Pages: 560

Rating: ★★★★☆

How long did it take: 8 days

This was possibly the most talked-about and hyped book of 2020, so it feels rather useless rehashing what it is about. I am just going to say I liked it. It was beautifully written (this was my first V.E. Schwab), I enjoyed the historical parts a great deal and even the contemporary setting had very charming moments (I tend to be bored to tears by anything set in a modern world, so this was a nice surprise). I only cannot decide if the ending was frustrating or clever.

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Review party • "Middlegame" di Seana McGuire

#Reviewparty Vi staccherete difficilmente da questo libro! Esce oggi per Mondadori, "Middlegame" di Seana Mcguire. Venite a scoprirlo nelle tappe del Reviewparty!

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Esce oggi per Mondadori un libro di cui avrete sentito parlare sicuramente molto negli ultimi tempi, he oltre oceano ha lasciato dietro di sé, una lunga scia di apprezzamenti e fan. Mi riferisco “ Middlegame” di Seanan McGuire; un autoconclusivo inizialmente, che invece avrà dei seguiti a detta dell’autrice. Partecipo con enorme piacere al Review partye credetemi, non vedevo l’ora di…

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Books finished this morning: Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone and Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire.

Three Parts Dead might be best described as fantasy with a liberal sprinkling of legal thriller seasoning, if by legal I mean necromantic firm and I do. The world building reminded me not a little of Steven "Jhereg" Brust and Scott "Locke Lamora" Lynch. 

It was good, and I'll pick up Max Gladstone's other books soon.

Sparrow Hill Road is a fix-up novel, a collection with interstitial material make the overall arc more obvious. It's the story of Rose Marshall who was run off the road by Bobby Cross in 1952 and serves as a psychopomp in her afterlife. I want to read more of Rose Marshall.

Which book will be pulled off the To-Read pile next?

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