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EX LIBRIS: STORIES OF LIBRARIANS, LIBRARIES, AND LORE – Paula Guran, editor
A collection of stories centered around libraries and those who work in them is a near-perfect concept for a book. What reader hasn’t had an experience at some point with a library? What writer hasn’t interacted with a librarian? I’ve come to have greater appreciation for the role of editor for a short story collection.… Continue reading
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JOHN TIFFANY – graphic novel
John Tiffany – the James Bond for the Gen-X readers. Meaning darker, more violent, and the sex is much more in-your-face. He’s a bounty hunter for some of the toughest cases on the books and he needs to think like a spy in order to infiltrate criminal organizations to catch his prey. He’s cool under… Continue reading
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LACKADAISY – graphic novel
Lackadaisy is a historical fiction graphic novel set during the U.S.’s Prohibition era. Bootleggers, and speakeasies and budding romances. And the story is told with anthropomorphic cats. Yeah, you read that right. Walking, talking, shooting, loving, dressed to the nines … cats. In an introduction to the ARC reader, author/artist Tracy Butler notes that “grown-up stories… Continue reading
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SIGN HERE – Claudia Lux
There’s a corporate structure to working in Hell, and Peyote Trip knows this better than most. He is a dealmaker, currently working on the fifth level where the basic utilities don’t work and haven’t for centuries and the only thing to drink is Jägermeister. Another dealmaker is Cal. They share some of their work and… Continue reading
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THE TERRAFORMERS – Annalee Newitz
Two stories in one … The Environmental Rescue Team is an old organization dedicated to preventing the collapse of ecosystems. Destry is an analyst with the E.R.T. currently working on the planet Sask-E to terraform an earth-like world. Her companion is a moose named, Whistle. But Destry discovers an ancient city on this supposedly barren… Continue reading
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GASLIGHT: LANTERN SLIDES FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY – Joachim Kalka
The nineteenth century … a boring time for civilization, right? Literature was dry and unimaginative. Entertainment was stodgy theatre or the comics in the newspapers. This is how we generally look back a little more than a century, isn’t it? Historian and essayist Joachim Kalka looks at the 19th Century through a series of essays… Continue reading
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LONE WOMEN – Victor LaValle
Adelaide Henry is heading to Montana, a state where a woman can be a ‘lone’ woman and own her own parcel of land. She leaves California behind by burning more than bridges and she’ll carry her family curse with her … both of these, literally. She leaves California by saying goodbye to her parents –… Continue reading
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THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF RANGERGIRL – Tim Pratt
I have recently enjoyed a few of the new Tim Pratt novels and I thought maybe I would go back and read some of his earlier works. As it turns out, this is apparently his first published novel (if my sources are correct). This is the story of Marzipan (“Marzi”) – a young woman who… Continue reading
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THE ISLAND OF EXTRAORDINARY CAPTIVES – Simon Parkin
Being from the U.S., I was moderately aware of POW and Internment camps here in the States. I honestly hadn’t given much thought to such camps in England during WWII, but of course there were. This book examines one such camp, meant to detain Germans and German sympathizers during the war. Unfortunately, camps such as… Continue reading
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CULT CLASSIC – Sloane Crosley
Reading the description of this book I thought I might be in for something along the lines of the 1985 film, After Hours. Lola is a hip, modern New Yorker. She’s an editor, now in her early 30’s. She’s had her string of boyfriends and lovers but is currently living a boyfriend whom she will be… Continue reading
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THE FENCING MASTER – Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Madrid, 1868. Don Jaime Astarloa is a fencing master. He is reputed to be the only fencing master in the world to know how to execute a rare, unstoppable thrust move. Don Jaime is approached by a young woman, Adela, who asks him to be her fencing instructor. It is a highly unusual request – for… Continue reading
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THE FINAL STRIFE – Saara El-Arifi
In a cruel empire, in a different world, there is a caste system at work in which people are sorted by the color of their blood. Red blood (“Embers”) is for the elite group, in control of everything. Blue blood (“Dusters”) is for the working class. And those with clear blood (“Ghostings”) are relegated to… Continue reading
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