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I like haiku, sci-fi, and fantasy.

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Eirik Westcoat: Eagle's Mead (Hardcover, 2019, Skaldic Eagle Press) 4 stars

Review of "Eagle's Mead" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, the poems are beautiful and skilled. But, many if not most of the poems are specific to initiations within the Rune-Gild and are thus obscured to the casual reader. I really wish I had bought his "Viking Poetry for Heathen Rites" book, because I think that's what I actually needed several years ago.

I'm kinda mad at myself for picking up this book tbh. It's rather useless to me, but it's also this lovely hardcover book...

Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone: This Is How You Lose the Time War (Hardcover, 2019, Simon and Schuster) 5 stars

Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …

Review of 'This Is How You Lose the Time War' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I silently exploded with feelings while reading this on a family vacation. I can't wait to reread this and savour the text.

2020 update: My ereader has crapped out so I am reading an actual book now. Anyone who knows me personally may remember that I spent the end of 2019 recommending this book to anyone in sight. This is a beautiful, poetic, epistolary scifi about QUEER LOVE between two alien women who are spies on opposite sides of a time-traveling war. They write each other letters. It’s the most romantic thing I will ever read in my life. (I even got a small tattoo for this book!)

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke: The Occult Roots of Nazism (Paperback, 1993, New York University Press) 4 stars

Review of 'The Occult Roots of Nazism' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A bit dry but otherwise supremely informative if this is your research interest. It's thoughtful and well-researched. It's critical of people faking Nazi occult stuff and presents info in a factual way. I really liked this book. I borrowed it from the library and am debating buying my own copy so I can scribble notes in it.

Jo Walton: Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity) (2017, Tor Books) 5 stars

Review of 'Thessaly: The Complete Trilogy (The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I adored this series.

The Just City saved my life when I was stuck in a crisis center.

Two years later, when I realized there were sequels, I barreled through them. I was delighted.

Book 2 was intriguing. There was plenty to be sad about. I appreciate the importance of grief throughout the trilogy.

Book 3 is rather repetitive given that so many characters need to coordinate with each other. However! There's lots of fun plot twists. I really like how the consequences for various actions echo throughout the trilogy. It resonates with how things work in real life.

I want all my friends to read this trilogy so I can have someone to geek out with!!!