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Rated I, Davros: Corruption 10/10

Best of the three I've heard so far.

Finished reading Making Money

Rated Torchwood: Uncanny Valley 8/10

Jack Harkness has hate-sex with a queer robot designed to look like a well-known billionaire? Yes, this sounds like Torchwood.

Finished reading Hogfather

Rated Imago 8/10

I enjoyed the first two books in this series more, but this was still very good.

Rated If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?: Poems and Artwork by Matthea Harvey 10/10

Wow. Truly, wow. I am so glad that I finally read this amazing collection of art and poetry. A beautiful, surreal escape. I loved it for its strangeness, its inventiveness, and how it inspires my own work.

Wants to read Inferno

Rated I, Davros: Innocence 8/10

I am very interested in seeing how this series progresses. I have the other installments, just need to get to them, but Davros is an interesting character, and this is a strong bit of extended universe storytelling.

Finished reading Raising Steam

Finished reading Small Gods

Finished reading Eric

Rated Iris 10/10

Honestly, it's more of a 4.5, but screw it, I'll round up. My quibbles are more of the editorial sort. She could use more dialogue tags, and somehow a few typos slipped through, but otherwise this is a great, interesting book. Marsh’s writing examines the competition between the internal and external — the performances we give others, and how it feels to be in one’s own body. The body, the occasional crudeness of physicality, and how that affects a woman’s inner monologue is constantly at play throughout the story. Iris is strong all throughout her learning about herself, but while she may not show it to others, she’s quite in touch with her insecurity. She resents her initial lack of educational opportunity, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to stop learning to spite herself. When it comes to sex and men’s desires, she learns what is within her control.<br><br>Full review can be found at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2015/11/iris-by-jean-marsh.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>, and it's also one of my <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2015/12/glorified-love-letters-top-10-favorite.html">Top 10 Favorites read in 2015.</a>

Finished reading Thud!

Finished reading Sourcery

Wants to read Into the Thickening Fog

Rated It's Fine By Me 8/10

Full of difficult beauty. When it comes to exploring melancholy, Petterson's one of the best.<br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/03/its-fine-by-me-by-per-petterson.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Finished reading Trail of Lightning

Finished reading The Last Continent

Rated Jago 8/10

It's a little more about waiting for the two of them to figure it out rather than discovering at the same pace they do, but I still liked this a lot.

Wants to read The Shepherd's Crown

Rated Jago & Litefoot: Series 2 8/10

<div>These characters are so much fun.</div>

Finished reading Spy Vs. Spy: The Complete Casebook

Rated I Loved You More: A Novel 10/10

Briefly, I debated between <i>The Price of Salt</i> by Patricia Highsmith and this book for my favorite read this year, but what gave <i>I Loved You More</i> its edge was my visceral reaction to it. This book fucked me up in the best way, right when I needed it. While Highsmith keeps a certain amount of narrative distance from the love, lust, loneliness, and longing, Spanbauer dives right in. Mercilessly.<br><br>The Goodreads plot description doesn't really do the book justice. The friendship between these two men — Ben, more-or-less gay; Hank, more-or-less straight — is intense and beautiful. For a time, they drift apart, and their reunion is full of its own complications. Because it's partially set in 1980s New York, illness and caregiving play a central part of the story as well. <br><br>I cannot recommend this book enough.<br><br>(See the rest of my Top 10 Favorites from 2015 at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2015/12/glorified-love-letters-top-10-favorite.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Wants to read I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

Finished reading Reaper Man