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I really enjoyed 'Cast Long Shadows' by Cat Hellisen—a tense fantasy novel of court politics and women's lives in a quasi-medieval setting.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/4fa99467-dd6d-469b-9a06-8b06ae507ced
'Count Brass' is the last of Michael Moorcock's disavowed 'Tale of The Eternal Champion' series, in which the Hero with a Thousand Faces meets its mystical Apocalypse. It's pretty loosely written, but entertaining and thought-provoking.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/f179d609-805f-4be2-81b5-3c7f7945cca4
#fantasy #eternalchampion #michaelmoorcock #books #bookstodon
'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan is a wonderful wordless comic, that uses surreal fantasy worldbuilding to explore the immigrant experience. He's an incredible artist and it's a thing of great beauty.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/190068de-b91d-4b68-b03f-24723e33285f
#comics #illustration #books #bookstodon #shauntan #thearrival
I'm looking for my socks, as they've been knocked off by 'The Works of Vermin' by Hiron Ennes. A baroque, New-weird-ish, twisty, beautifully written dark fantasy thriller in which nothing is what it seems.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/5092f338-5324-4b06-b2eb-932a6d8eaf50
'The Essential Cuisines of Mexico' combines the three best known books by Diana Kennedy, the grand dame of Mexican food-writing in English. A fascinating, mouth-watering read.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a4c7ee94-26e3-466f-a188-831e24180bb2
#food #mexico #mexicanfood #dianakennedy #theessentialcuisinesofmexico #books #bookstodon
'Wiliam Blake Now' by John Higgs is a short, erudite and inspiring argument for the continuing relevance of Britain's most contested poet.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/68a1b007-67d9-40f8-9949-7278f8c5e165
#blake #poetry #art #johnhiggs #williamblakenow #books #bookstodon
Tasha Suri's 'The Lotus Empire' book 3 of her 'Burning Kingdoms' trilogy, was less involving than the earlier books for me, but it's still some of the best-written, most vivid contemporary epic fantasy I've read.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c72144eb-b386-403b-8caa-5cf0f84fdf3d
#fantasy #epicfantasy #tashasuri #burningkingdoms #thelotusempire #books #bookstodon
In 'The Mark', Fríða Ísberg uses some well-drawn characters and a low-key SF premise to explore some important ideas around the cultural divisions currently troubling wealthy societies. I enjoyed it a lot.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/158dacb4-ba8b-42a8-9570-35466e07a70c
#sf #sciencefiction #themark #fríðaísberg #books #bookstodon
I picked up this book on a whim in The Book Hive in Norwich. It's a beautiful chapbook containing a single, exquisitely wrought SF short-story in translation. Lucid, polyvalent, and ambiguous.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a0b1359f-dc0d-478c-af62-da666d88d1e0
#sf #sciencefiction #chapbook #translation #cloudlabour #sabrinahuang #linking #strangerspress #books #bookstodon
I'm exploring some of Ursula K Le Guin's lesser known books, and loving most of them. 'The Beginning Place' is a beautiful, subtle and perceptive allegorical portal fantasy about the passage into adulthood.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/769076d8-ff94-439c-aaed-d8f51223f213
#fantasy #ursulakleguin #thebeginningplace #books #bookstodon
