Short stories, novelettes, and novellas have been dealt with. That leaves just one more major prose fiction category at the Hugo Awards: Best Novel. Here are this year’s finalists for the title…
Book Beat – Man Booker Longlist and Toronto Desi Comic Book Artist
Hi book lovers! Ashley here! I have been so busy this past week. The office where I work is hosting a group of Japanese youth for a knowledge exchange excursion! They are teaching me a lot about their favourite manga! A lot happened in the book world, so let’s get caught up together!
Sparks and Tarts Review Edition: The Sumage Solution
The Sumage Solution (San Andreas Shifters #1) G.L. Carriger Gail Carriger, LLC July 18,2017 Disclaimer: A copy of this book was provided by the publisher for an honest review.
The Infinite Comfort of Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Eliza and Her Monsters Francesca Zappia HarperCollins May 30, 2017 I’ve not made a secret of my hesitation when it comes to books about fandom. More often than not, they’ve been hit or miss for me. When they’re a hit, they’re a real hit. And when they miss? I’d rather just avoid talking about them….
Book Beat: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Starts Filming
Welcome back to Book Beat! Alas, a theme for this week’s Beat has completely eluded me, but we still have some exciting moving picture and new book news regardless! The first book-to-moving picture news is that YA romance novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han is set to be made into…
Something Terrible Happened: Roxane Gay’s Hunger
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay HarperCollins June 13, 2017 Content warning: rape. “There are so many things I hunger for.” Statistics say that 34.9 percent of Americans are obese and 68.6 percent of Americans are obese or overweight. Going into Hunger, and knowing what Gay looks like, you know that there will…
Remixing the Classics: Hideo Furukawa’s Novella Slow Boat
Slow Boat Hideo Furukawa Pushkin Press June 6, 2017 A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The novella Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa is, in his words, a remix. He states, “To take your love for the original and situate it in the present,” and he does exactly that…
Book Beat: A Wrinkle in Time and New Harry Potter Books
Hi book lovers! Ashley here! I’m still in a bit of shock that it’s the end of July, but I’m doing better with my summer reading then I had thought I would. I’m flying out to Atlanta, Georgia for a conference, and I’m currently reading Hunger by Roxanne Gay. It’s heartbreaking, but also incredibly candid,…
Sparks and Tarts: With Romance, Your Mileage May Vary…and That’s Okay
Did you try a romance once and put it down, never to pick up another? Did you ever wonder why that was? Maybe the plot didn’t work for you or the writing was bad. Maybe it was just boring. Maybe the author wrote a piece of sexist, racist garbage. Maybe there were elements that hit…
2017 Hugo Reviews: Novellas
Welcome to the third part of my 2017 Hugo Awards reviews. With the Best Short Story and Best Novelette categories covered, it is time to move further up the wordcount bracket. Whether you view them as long short stories or as short novels, here are the finalists for Best Novella.
The REadWind: Alanna: The First Adventure
The REadWind series gets contributors to re-read the books they haven’t read in years and self-reflect. The goal is to explore how the contributors’ growth as a person plays a role in their experience in revisiting the book. Do they still like/hate it? How has it changed? Why? We ask the contributors to for a…
2017 Hugo Reviews: Novelettes
With my previous post having covered the Best Short Story finalists, it is time to move on to the category for stories between 7,500 and 17,500 words: Best Novelette.