THE MAN WHO BRIDGED THE MIST won the Hugo and the Nebula Awards for Best Novella of 2011. It deserved them both. Kij Johnson wrote a beautiful, necessary story. http://tinyurl.com/qjyy7b9 Praise is all I can offer her; encouragement to read it and as soon as possible is what I offer you. I don't...
Look, I get it.I get that Ponies is a dark allegory about peer pressure, the loss of innocence, and the lengths people go to in order to belong. It's a touch heavy-handed, but I still enjoyed every horribly dark second of the story. The ending was so incredibly cruel. It was wonderful....but I got d...
Japan. Cats. Stories passed from one person to another. The conclusion that everybody has their own stories. Gorgeous illustrations. What's not to love?The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles reminded me a lot of Tailchaser's Song. It follows that same idea of cats having a rich cultural background. The...
Overhyped and overrated, in my opinion.Oh, I know this is the sort of story that some reviewers would love - there is plenty to analyse and write about, certainly, but there is not one story ever told that would please everybody who read it, and this story I did not like. But to be fair, I doubted I...
Set in Japan many years ago, this story began with a family of female cats living in the garden of an abandoned house, where they have all the comforts they could wish for - trees to climb, mice to hunt, streams of water, etc. These cats teach other the fudoki; the tales of their ancestors, passed d...
**** The Case of Death and Honey, Neil Gaiman, (A Study in Sherlock)Actually read this one twice in a row, because it was fun to revisit the details... There may be many Holmes stories set in the famed fictional detective's 'retirement,' but, not being a huge Holmes fan, it unavoidably reminded me o...
A short sf/f story in which nothing unexpected happens, the sf/f elements are of relatively little importance, and the focus is solely on characters dealing with everyday problems & their relationships with each other.
The titular story wasn't for me, but the rest was amazing. I particularly liked was particularly struck by "What Amanda Wants". I was a bit leery starting this collection as horror is a pick-and-choose sort of genre for me, but I'll definitely be reading McDermott again. (Perfections is sitting on m...
"Every cat is an echo of the first cat I knew, the little nun, Shisutako.""And it was twilight one day in the ninth month, and the world was shades of dim purple, like my subtlest robes. The little nun stepped slowly off the veranda to a stone, and then to the round gravel of my courtyard, her fur t...
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