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  • Book Haul WorldCon part 2
  • Book Haul Glasgow World Con part 1
  • Glasgow 2024: A WorldCon for Our Futures
  • Review: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner
  • Review: The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai
  • Books,  Review

    Review: Loki by Melvin Burgess

    17/11/2022 / 0 Comments

    It is almost like this was written for me.  I am a sucker for Norse retellings.  Doubly so when they are from Loki’s point of view. And this is a retelling of the Norse Myths from Loki’s point of view so obviously I am here for it.  Loki is always a figure of fascination, as a trickster and purveyor of chaos and often being the villian of the piece. Melvin Burgess here gives Loki a voice and a chance to intepret the norse myths his way. This is an earthy retelling, bodily functions and plenty of bedroom shenanigans including the weird things that gods of several mythologies like to do…

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    Review: This is How to Lose the Time War by Amal Al-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

    19/03/2020

    For Pterry

    12/03/2015
    Witchsign

    Review: Witchsign by Den Patrick

    08/10/2019
  • Books

    Book post squee

    17/10/2022 / 0 Comments

    Today has been long train delays and fixing stuff but I came home to some delightful book post from Orbit UK. How lovely does Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Fairies look? If I’m honest I was smitten with the title. If ever there was a book for Unicorn towers it’s this one. Review will be out in the new year but I had to share the pretty.

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    What have I been reading

    18/07/2019

    Jane's Great Re-read: Witches Abroad – Review

    04/05/2015

    Jane's Great Re-Read: The Time Traveller's Wife

    23/02/2015
  • Books,  General Jane,  reading

    Lost Mojo

    30/09/2022 / 0 Comments

    It has taken months for the desire to come back and its been a slow and incremental thing. But the habit is back and it is reliable and again I can get some solace by escaping to worlds created by others.

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    Review: Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

    01/03/2020

    Review: Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon

    05/12/2022

    Girls and Aliens

    31/08/2019
  • Books

    Selecting Next Reads

    07/10/2019 / 0 Comments

    Selecting books to read, how do you do it? My pile of unread books teeters in various places around the very small London house in which we live.  My partner sighs with exasperation at me and not a little fondness as I amass more books than I can get through.  I absolutely have the intention to read them,  but  I never have the time to get through as many as I think I should. There are also many books languishing on my kindle that I need to read too. This can lead to me being overwhelmed by choice when I finish a book. I need to know what I should…

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    Review: Cult of Chaos by Shweta Taneja

    03/11/2019

    Review: Planetfall by Emma Newman

    11/09/2015

    Review: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

    20/10/2022
  • Books,  reading,  Review

    Girls and Aliens

    31/08/2019 / 0 Comments

    This was quite the collection, five contrasting stories that featured girls and aliens in often very dark and disturbing ways.

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    YALC 2019

    29/07/2019

    Book Haul WorldCon part 2

    19/08/2024

    Hello from Dublin

    15/08/2019
  • Books

    Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – a Squee post.

    15/09/2017 / 5 Comments

    Its rare that I feel compelled to write about something I’m reading before I’ve finished reading it but Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time has crawled under my skin and it is preying on my mind so I need to tell you all why.

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    Review: Where it Rains in Color by Denise Crittendon

    05/12/2022

    Review: Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

    01/03/2020

    Jane's Great Re-Read: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett

    11/04/2015
  • Books,  Review

    Review: The Silver Tide by Jen Williams

    29/01/2016 / 0 Comments

    Trilogies are tricky things to work properly they should do more than simply be one long story there should be themes that ebb and flow. Narratives which build and peak and then build again. I usually count myself lucky if the trilogy I read is three decent books which hold together well. And then there’s Jen William’s Copper Cat trilogy which I am so deeply in love with right now it is a little bit obscene.

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    A Cream coloured book with a line drawing of a woman carrying both a sword and a baby. The novel's title is A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark

    Book Haul Glasgow World Con part 1

    16/08/2024

    Review: Last Smile in Sunder City by Luke Arnold

    01/03/2020

    Ragged Alice Review

    25/07/2019
  • Books

    The books I do not read

    14/09/2015 / 0 Comments

    I am a recovering book snob. I’m in the process of overcoming the baggage I picked up whilst studying English Lit at university. I’m now able to read widely not caring for some invisible judge and yet there is one line I do not want to cross. Why can’t I read romance? That’s not to say I haven’t read any I’ve dabbled in the paranormal romance end of things and faeries who like to get hot and heavy. But straight romances in genre terms are problematic. A lot of this is bound up in my heavy allergic reaction to the tag chick lit. I have never been a chick, I…

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    World Con Round up

    25/08/2019

    Review: Shattered Minds by Laura Lam

    30/08/2017

    Review: This is How to Lose the Time War by Amal Al-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

    19/03/2020
  • Books,  Jane's Great Re-Read,  Review

    Jane's Great Re-Read: Lords and Ladies By Terry Pratchett a Review

    27/08/2015 / 0 Comments

    Lords and Ladies is the fourth Granny Weatherwax and the witches book. If Wyrd Sisters is Macbeth, Lords and Ladies is a Midsummer’s Night Dream. This picks up post Witches Abroad just when the trio have arrived back from Genua and sprints off into the distance. This book is about belief; it is about susperstition; it is about quantum and iron.

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    Review: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry

    13/02/2020

    The books I do not read

    14/09/2015

    Review: The Witch and the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

    08/12/2022
  • Books,  Fiction,  Geekery,  Jane's Great Re-Read

    For Pterry

    12/03/2015 / 0 Comments

    I was thirteen when I read my first Terry Pratchett novel. It was Good Omens with Neil Gaiman and I loved that book as only a teenager could. I obsessed over Crowley and Aziraphale and it has been a favourite of mine for a long time. After Good Omens came the Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic which were okay but the novel that got me hooked was Wyrd Sisters. As the cauldron bubbled an archaic voice shrieked: “When shall we three meet again?!!” There was a pause. Finally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: “Well I can do next Tuesday.” Wyrd Sisters Over the years I…

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    A Cream coloured book with a line drawing of a woman carrying both a sword and a baby. The novel's title is A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark

    Book Haul Glasgow World Con part 1

    16/08/2024

    Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

    09/01/2023

    Review: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

    20/10/2022
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