Reviews and Comments

Returning to the world of Mouse Guard is a delight, as ever. I really enjoyed this deep look at such an important character.

cw: suicidal ideation and attempt as ongoing theme and struggle throughout the book. It's handled very thoughtfully and beautifully. It's a journey of healing that doesn't feel self-help-y or annoying. This was also a great thought experiment!

This is a reread for me. I’m glad to continue my MG collection.

While I am definitely into the spooky shit in this book, I gotta say that reading about teen heroes doesn’t interest me as much anymore. This is ironic as I plan to further my career and become a high school teacher.

A comic book gifted to me by my brother for Christmas. This was a gory comic but still really fun! A master warrior likes to cut off monster heads! He does it a lot!

This book was happy and sad. I really liked it. The time travel was so subtle that it didn’t feel like I was reading scifi. This felt like fiction. It was really good story about interconnecting lives at a coffee shop. I recommend it to anyone looking for a light read. You don’t have to like coffee to like this book, haha.

I first encountered Love through a livestream from Haymarket Books and was so intrigued that I had to know more. This book is great. It’s part memoir, part research, and all manifesto. I wish it was a little bit more of a how-to, or maybe offered a framework to work from, but I guess I need to do more research elsewhere on anti-racist pedagogy. (Additionally, another, more personal, concern is that it’s an American book, and I feel like I am lacking in knowledge in Canadian abolitionists and anti-racist work.)

I really enjoyed this. It was a great book. There was lots of devotee perspectives which I really enjoyed, but I would’ve preferred a little more recorded research, Morgan Daimler-style. On the other hand, maybe I just need to spend more time looking up academic articles to fuel that need.

I was so thrilled to find out that this best-selling book was actually an anti-capitalist book about the benefits of bioregionalism. Oh my gods. I need to find more books like this!

This was a fun discovery for me! If you enjoy storytelling, check this out.

I read one of her short stories in my pandemic short story club. Given that I want to read more Irish authors, I decided to buy the whole (e)book. I love how meditative this book is. Keegan really plumbs the depths of human nature here. I would definitely read more by her.

This book! Oh my gosh! So many people have recommended it to me. This book is about a crew of sapients, human and non-human, tunneling holes in space. They have to live with each other for long lengths of time. What does that do to a group? This crew becomes really close, except for, as you may guess, the one asshole in the group. I love the incredibly detailed and thoughtfully written aliens. I love that the ship’s crew, including the AI, are basically chosen family. It reminds me of Cedar McCloud’s writing in that the novel keeps subverting the dramatic directions I think it’s going to go. One friend described this book as a comfort read and I think he’s right. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

Doughty calls her Youtube fans ‘deathlings’. I’m happy to be a fan. This book is as hilarious as the title.

This was a slim volume that I read in one day while taking a break from Alan Watts. It was packed full of info about Loki–lots of little tidbits I’d never even heard of before. Great stuff. Absolute must-read for a beginner Norse pagan.