Despite the oodles of spare time allegedly freed up by being forced to work from home thanks to Covid, I haven’t actually managed to read all that much this past year. Whether it’s lack of interest, lack of energy or something else I don’t know, but I’m lucky if I managed to get into the […]
The Outskirter’s Secret Rosemary Kirstein 342 pages published in 1992 The Outskirter’s Secret is the sequel to The Steerswoman, the second in what’s so far a four book, projected to be seven book series. Kirstein is one of those authors who’ve fallen between the cracks of the science fiction/fantasy field: incredibly loved by those who’ve […]
Following on from that list of science fiction by female authors I’ve read in the last ten years, here’s the same for fantasy: The Interior Life — Katherine Blake Tam Lin — Pamela Dean The Paladin — C. J. Cherryh God Stalk — P. C. Hodgell Dark of the Moon — P. C. Hodgell A […]
It’s that perennial middle class literary question: should your bookshelves accurately reflect what you read, or should it have the books read by the kind of person you would like to, as Ezra suggests: Bookshelves are not for displaying books you’ve read — those books go in your office, or near your bed, or on […]