Beautifully written. A book that takes its time and just enjoys being beautiful.
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I enjoy a wide variety of genres. I am surrounded by hundreds of dead tree books, but am mostly listening to audiobooks right now.
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LizAndra finished reading Little, Big by John Crowley
LizAndra rated Good Omens: 5 stars
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According to …
LizAndra finished reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
LizAndra finished reading Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
LizAndra finished reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Haven't read this since high school (decades ago). It got me thinking about the books they have you read in high school. Between this and Anna Karenina, it made me feel like I was doomed to die young.
LizAndra finished reading The Price of Spring by Daniel Abraham (Long Price Quartet, #4)
LizAndra finished reading Witches Abroad (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett (Discworld (12))
LizAndra rated The Kingdom of Back: 4 stars
The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish: to be remembered forever. But even as she …
LizAndra finished reading The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Fascinating YA fantasy that is firmly rooted in historical fact. This is told from the POV of Mozart's sister, who was also a musical prodigy. A fun, thrilling read about the danger of bargaining with the fae and also about the misogyny that has killed the beauty that women could have brought to the world.
LizAndra finished reading Masquerades of Spring by Ben Aaronovitch
LizAndra finished reading The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
I absolutely loved this book. The prose is beautiful and rich. There is a story within a story within a story. It's very touching. It's the kind of story that could have been written as a thriller, but Atwood wrote it instead as a beautiful story of love and loss. I'll remember this book for a long time.