Tag Archives: Book Club

Dragon Rider – Taran Matharu

Posted on 01/04/2025 by Roseanna

For my most recent read, I am reminded of an emotion that I don’t actually have a word for. The feeling you get, when you experience something you thought long consigned to the scrap-heap of history, and suddenly here it … Continue reading →

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Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

Posted on 05/11/2019 by Roseanna

Something of a change of pace. This one was a book club book, for our theme “literary authors doing SFF”. I nominated it, so entirely my fault, but I’m not certain in hindsight I’d have picked it for that theme. … Continue reading →

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Under the Pendulum Sun – Jeanette Ng

Posted on 17/08/2019 by Roseanna

Alas, a book for a book club I missed. The saddest of times (though in fairness I got to be in Portugal for a fantastic wedding, so I don’t really get to complain about any hardships here at all). That … Continue reading →

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Lud-in-the-Mist – Hope Mirrlees

Posted on 16/08/2019 by Roseanna

This… is quite late. I finished the book *checks* most of a year after we read the book for book club. Like… nine months at least. Whoops. Worst part is, I actually enjoyed it, and apparently far more than a … Continue reading →

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The Wolf in the Whale – Jordanna Max Brodsky

Posted on 03/07/2019 by Roseanna

This one was disappointing. So it was a book club book, and one I’d not even read before, which is already a nice bonus. It follows the story of an Inuit, Omat, coming into contact with Vikings in Canada, and … Continue reading →

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Dreams Before the Start of Time – Anne Charnock

Posted on 10/03/2019 by Roseanna

Whoops! I forgot I read this first. In my defence, it’s kind of tiny (and I think I was part way through The Familiars when I read it, just so I’d be in time for Book Club). That said, for something … Continue reading →

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Planetfall – Emma Newman

Posted on 29/07/2018 by Roseanna

I’m catching up on something of a blogging backlog, so we’re still well into books I read in early July. Specifically in this case, the one I read for the July book club meeting… in the first week of July. … Continue reading →

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Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky (reread)

Posted on 23/04/2018 by Roseanna

I wouldn’t have reread this again so soon (less than two years) but it’s another book club reread, so here we go. I’m not objecting – it was a good book – but it was only just long enough ago … Continue reading →

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The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russell (reread)

Posted on 02/04/2018 by Roseanna

Shockingly, I still like this book. I’m not going to discuss the  book as itself much, as I’ve already done that here. My views are roughly the same, more or less. Maybe some amount less fuss about what I’m supposed … Continue reading →

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The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted on 24/02/2018 by Roseanna

It’s no surprise that I’m reading a le Guin book, so soon after her passing. As it happens, it’s a book for book club, but this has been on my list to read for a good long while, and I … Continue reading →

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