Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. The meme was originally the brainchild of The Broke and the Bookish. This week marks TTT’s 10th anniversary! The topic is Top Ten Tuesday Turns 10!; it offers a chance to revisit a topic you didn’t get the… Read more »
Tag: fantasy
How You as a Reader Can Help: Read Black Authors
For white and other non-black readers, one place to start the work of anti-racism in our own lives is by reading and supporting black authors (and other authors of color, but because of current events, right now the focus is on black authors.) Reading more diversely helps us see the… Read more »
Winterwood (Jacey Bedford)
Winterwood by Jacey Bedford Series: Rowankind #1 Published by DAW Books on February 2, 2016 Genres: Alt-History, Fantasy, Historical Fantasy Pages: 424 Format: Paperback Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble Add to Goodreads It’s 1800. Mad King George is on the British throne, and Bonaparte is hammering at… May 18, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 6 ★★★★★
The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz
The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz Published by Algonquin Books for Young Readers on October 1, 2019 Genres: Fantasy, MG Books Pages: 336 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads The new face of big evil is… October 4, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Blog Tours, Book Reviews 1 ★★★★★
East (Edith Pattou)
East by Edith Pattou Series: East #1 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 1st 2003 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, MG Books, YA (Young Adult) Format: Kindle or ebook, Paperback Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Rose has always been different…. January 2, 2019 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7
Nice Dragons Finish Last (Rachel Aaron)
Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron Series: Heartstrikers #1 Published by self-published Genres: Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Format: Kindle or ebook Source: purchased Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code:… December 3, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 11 ★★★★½
Closer to the Chest (Mercedes Lackey)
Closer to the Chest by Mercedes Lackey Series: Herald Spy #3 Published by DAW Books on Oct. 4, 2016 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 381 Format: eARC, Hardcover Source: the library, the publisher Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Audible Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Closer to… November 30, 2018 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 7 ★★★½
RIP Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018)
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning and bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy, died Monday at the age of 88. LeGuin is best known for The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Lathe of Heaven, and her EarthSea Cycle, beginning with A Wizard of EarthSea, but she also wrote short stories, poetry, children’s books… Read more »
Snowspelled (The Harwood Spellbook #1) by Stephanie Burgis
Snowspelled Series: The Harwood Spellbook #1 on September 4, 2017 Pages: 166 Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop Add to Goodreads In nineteenth-century Angland, magic is reserved for gentlemen while ladies attend to the more practical business of politics. But Cassandra Harwood has never followed the rules… Four months ago, Cassandra Harwood… September 14, 2017 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 10 ★★★★½
Women dominate this year’s Hugo Awards
Women dominated the Hugos this year, winning all the fiction categories as well as graphic story and best related work. At least four of them are women of color, making this year’s Hugo Awards a resounding YES to diversity in science fiction and fantasy. N. K. Jemisin won Best Novel for… Read more »