Wants to read These Deathless Shores
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Finished reading The Mountain Crown
Rated Doctor Who: Travel in Hope 8/10
<div>I was maybe a little less into the middle story, "The Butler Did It," compared to the others, but it's still good. I'm always very happy to have new Ninth Doctor stories.</div>
Rated Doctor Who: Trial of the Valeyard 10/10
Very much enjoyed this, and it adds some context to the "12 regenerations only" myth that had to be tinkered with because the show lasted so long!
Wants to read Wake of Vultures
Wants to read In Darkness, Shadows Breathe
Much like the actual military, this tale of soldiers vying for dominance was a lot of "hurry up and wait." It took until the second half of the story for things to kick off, and once they did, there was a level of violence that is quite unlike a regular DW story, a distinct relishing in the villains' cruelty at times. Also, I did not care for the way Richards describes the women, of which there are very few. Even in times of stress or action, their bodies are described with cheap, schoolboy longing. I didn't wholly dislike the book overall, but it was definitely one of the weaker Doctor Who novels I've read.
Wants to read The Cabinet
Wants to read Waste Tide
Rated Early Work Of Cindy Sherman 5/10
<div>I respect that Cindy Sherman has a place in art history, but the first project in this book has blackface and that "character" is lit horribly, so I'm glad I found this book for free. It still had the music CD in the back, but I have not listened. Maybe one day out of curiosity, I will take it out to the car, but I can't say the book made it a priority.</div>
Wants to read Djinn
Wants to read The Night and Its Moon
Rated Electric Literature no. 1 8/10
(Actually the paperback cover I have is the one that's shown on the Kindle edition, but...)
Finished reading Pereira Maintains
Rated Exit Strategy 8/10
<div>I quite enjoyed this series of novellas. I listened to the audiobook versions, and the narrator does a good job of portraying the humor and different voices.</div>
Rated Doctor Who: Festival of Death by Jonathan Morris 10/10
This is a really good one. Some DW novels are a good story, but only so so writing, but thankfully this isn't one of them. Enjoyed reading this to my son.
Rated Electric Literature No. 5 10/10
From the first paragraph of Kevin Brockmeier's "A Fable For the Living" until the last line of Lynne Tillman's "The Original Impulse," I remained so glad that I'd purchased a subscription to the quarterly publication.<br><br><i>Electric Literature No. 5</i> is a fantastic collection, with all five stories bleeding into one another to make a cohesive whole. Each one deals with people trying to fill some void in their life, some unspeakable absence, even when their methods for doing so are unhealthy. These are flawed, interesting individuals, and I couldn't ask for more in a collection of short stories. I flew through this slim volume, and I am eager to read <i>No. 6</i> when it arrives in my mailbox.<br><br><i>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/06/electric-literature-no-5-stories-by.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)</i>
Finished reading The Alloy of Law
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Finished reading We Speak Through the Mountain
Wants to read Cien años de soledad
Rated Electric Literature No. 6 6/10
After absolutely loving No.5, I had high hopes going into the latest volume of Electric Literature. Perhaps too high, as no ongoing literary magazine is going to be loved by a specific reader every single time. No.6 links together five stories of quiet resignation and detached violence, and though I found the stories and characters interesting enough to keep going, they did not stay with me. They're perfectly fine, well-written stories, but their complications were not the sort of complications I typically enjoy. <br><br>But wait... It's not all bad! My full review can be found at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/10/electric-literature-no6-stories-by-matt.html">Glorified Love Letters.</a>
Finished reading The God of Small Things