September 2018 Edition. With a long summer of revisions and edits behind me, I’m looking forward to reading something other than my own work! I did manage to read a few good books over the past few months, though. Here are the best of them: The Dark Defiles (A Land Fit for Heroes, #3), byContinueContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading”
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Buddy Reading with My Dad
My father recently stayed with me for two months. He’s retired now, so can visit for longer—which considering the time it takes to fly from Australia to the US is a very good thing. One week is a jet-lagged fever dream, two weeks just isn’t long enough, and three weeks allow one for recovery, oneContinueContinue reading “Buddy Reading with My Dad”
What I’ve Been Reading
May 2018 Edition. I had planned a new blog series for this year to replace my regular reading updates. Every month, I wanted to feature the first sentence or paragraph of a single book, with commentary on how that line or those lines had measured up against the book as a whole. I might stillContinueContinue reading “What I’ve Been Reading”
My Favourite Things 2017
Here it is, my favourite blog post of the year, the one where I share all the things I fell in love with over the past twelve months. For many of us, escapism became all the more important in 2017 as we searched for ways to deal with disappointment, disillusionment, and sometimes the sheer terrorContinueContinue reading “My Favourite Things 2017”
My Ongoing Affair with Nathan Drake
As usual, I’m going to start a post by talking about something only tangentially related. After falling for and having my heart broken by Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age: Origins) I actually came to quite like his character—as a friend. Always a friend. In fact, my favourite relationship with him was as the brother from anotherContinueContinue reading “My Ongoing Affair with Nathan Drake”
Kelly Jensen 