Tag: Opinion
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Vibrant World-building
A vibrant and immersive world that reflects the fury and injustices of our modern world back at us.
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2024 IN BOOKS
My best and worst books of 2024 and reading goals for the year ahead
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African Fairy tale
A compelling hero telling a simple but compelling tale with a bittersweet ending.
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NaNoWriMo 2024
How did the National Novel Writing Month Challenge go for me in 2024, and what did I learn from the experience about novel writing
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What’s her freaking problem with cars?
Further commentary on Manage your Money like a Grownup. Particularly a Challenge to her position on vehicle ownership
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The Great Debate
A recent news article reminded me why I am glad I got an e-reader
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Making Absurd Tropes Believable
An analysis of how to make a really entertaining and compelling romcom
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Middle Book Syndrome
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse I loved the first book in this series Black Sun and have been waiting excitedly for more than 1 year to get a ebook copy of Fevered Sun. Sadly, on its own, its not really worth the wait. It suffers a solid case of second / middle book syndrome; it…
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An Uplifting Fairytale
Rhapsody: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik The author tells us on the first page that Spinning Silver is about paying one’s debts. And maybe that is the moral of those fairytales, pay your debts or else, stay in your place or else. But this story is about so much more than that, its about reaching…
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It’s not as queer as they want you to think
Rant: Loki TV-Series by Marvel In a recent argument a friend insisted that Marvel’s Loki was queer-coded and I looked at her – on the basis of having watched maybe 3 Marvel movies in the last 10 years – in astonishment. So I recently paid my poundage and tuned into the Loki TV-series, mostly to…