Story and Somnomancy

Story and Somnomancy

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Mini Reviews: The Good Neighbor, Ghost

September 3, 2019August 20, 2019by MariLeave a Comment on Mini Reviews: The Good Neighbor, Ghost
Mini Reviews: The Good Neighbor, Ghost

So far, so good with these reviews! At this rate my audiobooks will have numbered more than the hard copy books I've read this year. Maybe by next year, they'll overtake my reading list! ...Probably not, but it does seem like I'm listening to more audiobooks than actual reading. It helps that I can multitask [...]

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To Be Educated || Educated by Tara Westover

February 19, 2019February 17, 2019by Mari1 Comment on To Be Educated || Educated by Tara Westover
To Be Educated || Educated by Tara Westover

Initial Thoughts:  I don't know why Educated affected me so much, because relating to it is stranger than suspending disbelief in a fantasy, but holy shit. I cringed. I cried (damn you, Chapter 38!!!). I got angry several times and wanted to chuck whatever I was holding all the way to Buck's Peak. And yet [...]

Mari

Mari-with-an-I prefers her fantasies drenched in oil and fried up in faerie, but when that’s not the case, she’ll read it anyway. She likes writing what she reads, and likes baking while she writes. She’s written a few things for anthologies, including an anthology that got translated into Czech (I know, right?! Eeeeee!), and if you haven’t read them yet, she urges you to do so! Who knows, there might be a few cookies waiting for you at the end of the read.

…Or not. (Blast her pet steampoctopus for eating them all!)

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Reading Ratings (in Cookies)

5 cookies = Book was so deliciously awesome that I couldn't put it down or get it out of my mind for a while.

4 cookies = Book was great and certainly worth the read.

3 cookies = Book was good but I expected better.

2 cookies = Meh.

1 cookie = Why did I even bother?!

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