Category Archives: reading

Alcestis by Katharine Beutner

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Pat Bowne

The #feministSF twitter chat week before last took up Alcestis, by Katharine Beutner. This is the first time I’ve only bought a book as an audiobook, without having a hard copy to check facts in, so if I have missed … Continue reading →

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How not to write a dystopia

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I’m an inefficient blog reader, so sometimes I take a few months to catch up with even the blogs I like best. Today was one of those days; I picked E.M. Bowman’s blog out of my bookmarks more or less … Continue reading →

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Mainstream Reading and fantasy rules

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Pat Bowne

This summer, I’ve been reading more mainstream fiction than I have for a long time. A friend suggested “I Know This Much is True” and “The Tiger Claw,” and I’ve been reading them with the same kind of surprise with … Continue reading →

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I told you so, I think

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Didn’t I say publishers would be unnecessary as gatekeepers and quality control when adequate indexing was created so readers could find stories with the content they wanted (à la fanfic.net)? Well, here comes a new service, Bookish, backed by three … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Pat Bowne

There’s a place under the world, or perhaps beside it, where you’ll find the old gods. Perhaps you’ll step through a reflected door, or find yourself tumbling into it by accident, or follow a woman who’s been turned into a … Continue reading →

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Summer Reading

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I may be jumping the gun here, but I think I’ll survive the spring semester! In which case, I will need something to read in the summer, and I’ve finished all the issues of Skip•Beat!, so I need suggestions. Of … Continue reading →

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Conversations and The Lyre of Orpheus

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Pat Bowne

The book club I belong to, the Burrahobbits, met last week to discuss The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies, a book I’d been suggesting for quite a while. I was nervous. Davies was one of my favorite writers in … Continue reading →

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College Girl Literature – does it matter?

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Pat Bowne

My new fave blog, Geekachicas, posted last year on College Girl Literature and recommended some of my favorite books. The thing that made me uneasy, though, was that these were my favorite books quite a while before I entered college. … Continue reading →

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Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Pat Bowne

The Temeraire series is the most intelligent set of books about dragons I’ve ever read, and all of its best features are back in the latest installment, ‘Victory of Eagles’. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious