#book shelf
Thinking about the future, I long for a little bookshop in a bustling city- there’s a tiny space for coffee and a corner dedicated to out-of-fashion antiques- with ladders to climb up the ceiling high shelves, filled with stories of wisdom and monsters and hope.
-All I Want
When I first saw the title of this book I thought “finally, someone who thinks like me!”
I am that cringe person who bursts into applause every-time a flight I am on lands safely on the tarmac, much to the the horror of my travel companion and anyone who happens to be in earshot. The title of this book, along with the brightly coloured covered may fool you into thinking that this is a joyful…
This is How You Lose The Time War
“I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me. I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you”
Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, becomes something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.
Except the discovery of their bond would mean the death of each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win. That’s how war works, right?
Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.
This book has found it’s place in my top ten books of 2021. What can I say about this book, which makes for a good review, rather than just a long gush fest? Let’s try, shall we?
Well first of all, it’s sci-fi, but that’s not what the book is really about. It’s a love story, but also more than that. Not your typical enemies to lovers story, it’s a tale of how two agents have formed a bond with each other, which spans across time and space. It is a relatively short book, only 198 pages long, but it definitely manages to do the story justice. I found it to be fulfilling, and enjoyable. The writing was poetic, without being pretentious.
While I enjoyed the sci-fi element of the story, I did struggle a bit to fully get my head around the world building. But Blue and Red’s love story was such a strong anchor, that I would still give this book 5 stars ⭐️
The graphic artist Rachel Ignotofsky has had a remarkable success these last years.
I stumbled on this book of hers, “What’s Inside a Flower”, but I have already ordered some others and eagerly await her book on the birth of computers which gets released this month.
These volumes are probably children’s books but the quality of her work makes that irrelevant.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBjD-3KsGT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Post link
“You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not…”
~This Side of Paradise, F.S. Fitzgerald
Post link
30th October, 2021
How I love my books. Not all are pictured. I bought more again. Reading more books of authors I don’t know is so fascinating! Reading different books by one author is just as interesting too!
“On this Sabbat of Mabon, we honour our foremothers: sweet Nanette, great Ursule, the prophetess Liliane, the Lady Yvette, Maddalena of Milano, Irina from the East, and all those whose precious names have been lost. We vow to pass the craft to our daughters so long as our line endures.”
A Secret History of Witches is a story of mothers, daughters and the power of women.
The Orchieres are Romanis from France who flee to England after being pursued by Witch Hunters. The family is large and wide but the book focuses on a group of sisters, particularly the youngest, Nanette. The sisters are descendants of the Great Ursule, a powerful witch who used the last of her magic to save her family. The sisters fear that their line and the magic of their grandmother is at an end…until Nanette starts showing signs of power.
A Secret History charts the Orchiere witches through the centuries until WW2, the power of the witches passing from mother to daughter. Every daughter is different, every daughter marks her own path. The stories fuse into one and don’t feel rushed. The story of one daughter expands on the story of the mother and so forth. Morgan’s writing is so clear and alive that her characters really come to life in the short time that we get to know them.
The story is a bit repetitive at times and I thought elements of the final partwere a bit silly but this is a real page turner. It’s a lovely, warm story that deserves to be read by the cosy fire with a cup of tea.
