Tag: Book Appreciation Posts
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A Review of The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin
(Other Book Appreciation Posts can be found on The Reading Corner) I’m more familiar with Ms. Le Guin’s young adult stories set in the fantastical world of Earthsea. (The complete cycle is on my TBR list, and I hope to check a few of those books off this year.) The Beginning Place isn’t a children’s…
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A Review of The Night Raven: The Moonwind Mysteries by Johan Rundberg
(Other Book Appreciation Posts can be found on The Reading Corner) I stumbled across this exciting children’s/young adult mystery novel a couple of months ago because of Amazon’s Prime Reads benefit. At the beginning of every month, Amazon Prime sends members an email with 6 (give or take a few) new book titles of varying…
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A Review of Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang
(Other Book Appreciation Posts can be found on The Reading Corner) Oh man. As someone who’s dabbled with the Latin, Greek, German, and Hebrew languages to varying degrees over the past 14 years, and being fascinated by etymology—the meaning of words themselves—and magic systems rooted in the power and promise of words, Babel was such…
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A Review of True Colors by Karen Traviss
True Colors is the third book in the Star Wars: Republic Commando series. You can find my appreciation posts for the first two books here: True Colors continues the intense and engaging trend of going deeper into the consequences of war and politics, the ethical and moral ramifications of slave armies with no rights, and…
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A Review of Triple Zero by Karen Traviss
(Other Book Appreciation Posts can be found on The Reading Corner) Dangerous, unsanctioned black ops on a planet made up of a thriving massive city. Veteran clone commandos secretly wanting to have something of a normal existence apart from war. Mandalorian mercenaries desperate to share their culture and be father figures to clones who grew…
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A Review of Hard Contact by Karen Traviss
(Other Book Appreciation Posts can be found on The Reading Corner) If you’ve spent any amount of time on this website, it might seem odd to learn that fantasy was not my first genre of choice growing up. No, that was science fiction. That love for science fiction came primarily through books now considered part…
