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Help, I’m in a reading slump
I’ve been in reading slump for months so you if you have any recommendations for fun science fiction and fantasy to lift my spirits, let me know! I still haven’t figured out how to turn on comments, so email me at raf @ rafmorgan dot com or visit my Facebook page. I have been able to do some re-reading, so I gorged on Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief series in anticipation of the newest and last book, The Return of the Thief, being released in March–and then the publication got pushed back to the end of August! WAH! Still, I love these books and love re-reading them to figure…
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Living abroad is full of surprises
I’m a New Yorker living in Bangkok, Thailand, and I’ve been here for almost 4 years but the sights, sounds and people are continually a surprise. I thought I’d share some of them with you this week. This was our taxi to the ferry boat to the regular taxi to the airport to return to Bangkok from an island in the Gulf of Thailand. This is a Thai spirit house, which is a shrine to the protective spirits of the land in a particular place like a house. Normally food and flower offerings would go on this platform in front of it, but on this day a cat was nursing…
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The desert is blooming!
My parents live in Tucson, Arizona, which is in the Sonoran Desert, and they’ve been sending me pictures of the desert blooming the last few weeks. Tucson has two rainy seasons, one in July-September and one in December-February and this year they’ve gotten more rain than they have in years as Tucson has been in a drought since 2000 and some researchers are saying it’s a megadrought.
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Books I love: The Thief
I am so re-reading all of Megan Whalen Turner’s The Queen’s Thief books in anticipation of the last book. I’m a bit early in the year since Return of the Thief was supposed to be out this month but has been pushed back to August. (August! I have to wait until August?!) Why do I love these books so much? I think because Turner seems to have no fear in writing on so many levels. She does things to her characters that I think other authors would shy away from. She takes her characters in unexpected directions, and I believe in them. The first book was YA, but now the…
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Three retellings of The Goose Girl that I love
For some reason I love retellings of The Goose Girl, though I’ve never been much of a fan of the original. Of course there’s Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl, which is the first book of hers I read. That was way back in 2012, and I didn’t write a review anywhere at the time, so I have to depend on my memory to tell you why I loved it. What I remember: girl friendships are very important (that’s your surprised face, right?) in counterpoint to female betrayal; Hale’s prose, which is just lovely no matter what she writes; Ani has a lot of agency and it’s agency that makes sense…
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The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
Back in September I read Yangsze Choo’s The Ghost Bride back in September? (I have review on BookBub). The author announced last month that Netflix is making it into a Chinese drama series! There’s even a teaser and it looks BEAUTIFUL. I’m always looking for new shows to watch and if they’re girl-centric and take place somewhere new (to me), even better. Also her new book The Night Tiger came out today, February 12. “A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers” in 1930s Malaysia. It’s on my tottering tower of TBR…
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