3.5 stars for Beneath a Bloody Moon (Novellete) [Take place after Blood Trade, after the short story “The Devil’s Left Boot” in the anthology Kick3.5 stars for Beneath a Bloody Moon (Novellete) [Take place after Blood Trade, after the short story “The Devil’s Left Boot” in the anthology Kicking It, and before Black Arts. Before Mardi Gras.]
-------------------------------------------- Jane Yellowrock Companion Guide
Include:
-Glossary List -The World According to Jane -A Partial Listing of Jane’s Weapons -Clan Pellissier, Blood Family Historical Chart -The World According to Beast -JY Companion Guide Major Character List
-First Sight - Bruiser POV of encounter of ouch type w/Jane (at Katie's)-snippet. Meh. -Dance Master - Bruiser POV when he calls Jane for an inspection in a club. (short story)(view spoiler)[It was interesting hear from George, how he really feel about Jane. And Jane, you are wasting your time with that Rick >_< (hide spoiler)]2.5 **
-Chronology of Books and Stories -Jane Yellowrock Companion Guide Timeline
-Beneath a Bloody Moon (Novellete) [Takes place after Blood Trade, after the short “The Devil’s Left Boot” in the anthology Kicking It and before Black Arts. Before Mardi Gras.] 3.5 ***
Jane and the Younger Brothers goes to take care of some 'wild dogs' near Chauvin, 2 hours from N.Orleans.
#Love the Younger Brothers+Jane
This would be something very different. I’d be working with humans. My humans. Like my brothers, or my family. Possessive, personal, intense. That was the way the instincts made it feel. As if the Younger brothers were my humans.
#Well, I hate Rick, of course. And humoungous EWWW (view spoiler)[to the insinuation of be able to have sex in animal form to avoid the were-infection. Seriously - Bestialism?? BIG NO-NO, Mrs. Hunter. NO. (hide spoiler)] #And Jane se las vio coloradas en esta historia, más de una vez ... (view spoiler)[ estiró la pata OO' . En serio. And the Blade Mercy as always really helpful. Not. (hide spoiler)] #I like the talking of another planes. #And I guess the ... thing at the end.
-Excerpt from Black Arts ----------------------------------------
Is really valid to buy this book just for the novelette at the end? (because the rest is filler)... I don't think so.
Merged review:
3.5 stars for Beneath a Bloody Moon (Novellete) [Take place after Blood Trade, after the short story “The Devil’s Left Boot” in the anthology Kicking It, and before Black Arts. Before Mardi Gras.]
-------------------------------------------- Jane Yellowrock Companion Guide
Include:
-Glossary List -The World According to Jane -A Partial Listing of Jane’s Weapons -Clan Pellissier, Blood Family Historical Chart -The World According to Beast -JY Companion Guide Major Character List
-First Sight - Bruiser POV of encounter of ouch type w/Jane (at Katie's)-snippet. Meh. -Dance Master - Bruiser POV when he calls Jane for an inspection in a club. (short story)(view spoiler)[It was interesting hear from George, how he really feel about Jane. And Jane, you are wasting your time with that Rick >_< (hide spoiler)]2.5 **
-Chronology of Books and Stories -Jane Yellowrock Companion Guide Timeline
-Beneath a Bloody Moon (Novellete) [Takes place after Blood Trade, after the short “The Devil’s Left Boot” in the anthology Kicking It and before Black Arts. Before Mardi Gras.] 3.5 ***
Jane and the Younger Brothers goes to take care of some 'wild dogs' near Chauvin, 2 hours from N.Orleans.
#Love the Younger Brothers+Jane
This would be something very different. I’d be working with humans. My humans. Like my brothers, or my family. Possessive, personal, intense. That was the way the instincts made it feel. As if the Younger brothers were my humans.
#Well, I hate Rick, of course. And humoungous EWWW (view spoiler)[to the insinuation of be able to have sex in animal form to avoid the were-infection. Seriously - Bestialism?? BIG NO-NO, Mrs. Hunter. NO. (hide spoiler)] #And Jane se las vio coloradas en esta historia, más de una vez ... (view spoiler)[ estiró la pata OO' . En serio. And the Blade Mercy as always really helpful. Not. (hide spoiler)] #I like the talking of another planes. #And I guess the ... thing at the end.
-Excerpt from Black Arts ----------------------------------------
Is really valid to buy this book just for the novelette at the end? (because the rest is filler)... I don't think so....more
Middle grade adventure with four teens searching for something.
Now here’s something important to know about Nowhere: about ninety percent
3.5 stars
Middle grade adventure with four teens searching for something.
Now here’s something important to know about Nowhere: about ninety percent of the people who live here have no choice. They’re trapped. No money. No education. No family. Trapped. Like me.
Buscando un libro que pasara en veinticuatro horas, di con esta aventura de unos adolescentes de 13 años en un pequeño pueblo llamado "Nowhere" ("el más pobre de todos") , con niños que viven en tráilers, en ambientes lejos de ser los ideales. Varios le han encontrado semejante a Los Goonies , por la cueva y demás, y tiene razon en parte , pero también es más drama como en The Body, y cof la autora lo sabe The situation could have been creepier, though. There could have been, like, clowns in the water.. Y sí , esto tiene un aire ochentero, y haría una buena película de matiné.
El desierto aquí hace que todo parezca más desolado y desesperanzado para los chicos, donde la única diversión es hacer carreras en motocross. El matón local tiene un hueso que picar con Rossi, la chica que le ha vencido últimamente y cuando ataca a Gus, ella termina dándole su moto para que lo deje un paz; pero Gus decide que va a recuperarla como sea. Aunque sea entrando a una mina que mata a todos los que ingresan.
“My dad is going to save everybody else, Gus.” She took a deep breath as she tied the rubber band back around her hair. “But one day I’m going to ride away from here on my bike and all you’ll see is my dust.” She tossed her hair back behind her and then clenched her fists in her lap. “I’m going to save myself.”
Lo único que le encuentro que difiere con lo que dice Gus, el chico más listo de la escuela, es que Rossi parece ser más lista que él. Pero más callada al respecto. No creo que se vea mayor por lo que dice, considerando, porque siendo adolescentes a veces decimos cosas que ni creemos pero decimos igualmente.
-- Reto Popsugar 2024: #24 libro que transcurre en 24 horas....more
Arriman, el mayor mago oscuro del Norte, decide que es hora de buscar sucesor. El problema es que a pesar de la profecía de la gitana Esmeralda, éste Arriman, el mayor mago oscuro del Norte, decide que es hora de buscar sucesor. El problema es que a pesar de la profecía de la gitana Esmeralda, éste no aparece. Por lo cual decide junto a sus fieles sirvientes que debe casarse y tener un heredero. Pero ¿cuál será la bruja más oscura digna de un señor oscuro? Bueno , el mayordomo decide hacer realizar un concurso de 'Señorita Bruja Malvada', para decidir cuál de las siete brujas de Toadcaster será la afortunada...
Lástima que la hermosa y amable Belladona sea una bruja tan...blanca.
Mi opinión: Descubrí a esta autora, por una reseña de otro libro y por los comentarios, me esperaba algo con más humor negro, pero aunque no pude dejar de leerlo hasta el final, y no tiene que ver con lo predecible de la trama, no consiguió hacerme reír. Tal vez sea porque en realidad (a pesar de que se supone que es middle grade y alberga cálidos recuerdos a quienes lo leyeron de niños) , lo encontré demasiado , y valga la redundancia, oscuro y macabro. Hay demasiados apelaciones de cosas horrendas que me sacaron de onda, y no pude hacerlas a un lado.
Lo mejor a cuento :
Terence could stand the blackest magic and enjoy it, but unkindness and spite just finished him....more
2024 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Locus Award novella 2024
3.5 stars
Toadling es totalmente achuchable.
It had been many years since a living being had 2024 Hugo Award for Best Novella. Locus Award novella 2024
3.5 stars
Toadling es totalmente achuchable.
It had been many years since a living being had touched her. She could not remember how many years. She had almost forgotten that such things were possible—and yet there it was, the solid weight of a palm and four fingers pressed against the underside of her wrist. “I was going to ask if you were one of the djinn,” said the knight slowly, sitting up. “But they are made of fire, and there is no fire in you.”
Un ser que asemeja un sapo, criada por Greenteeth que comen niños humanos, pero que son su familia?
Every time she read stone, her mind wanted to pull up the round pebbles underneath the river and the mossy overhangs of the banks and the cold flagstones of the courtyard and the gray stone with the hole in it that the Eldest had dangled in front of her as an infant. She would be left sitting for many minutes, staring at the single word on the page, while memories flowed over her, until her teacher snapped, “Stupid!” and made her read it over again.
....
Toadling had never prayed for another being’s cowardice so intently before.
---------- It never occurred to her to doubt her welcome. Such was the gift of a child raised with love. ...more
Just for the novellete "The Faery Handbag" - 4.5 stars
Love it.
La narración no es lineal, se da vueltas sobre lo que esta contando como lo haria una adJust for the novellete "The Faery Handbag" - 4.5 stars
Love it.
La narración no es lineal, se da vueltas sobre lo que esta contando como lo haria una adolescente en una conversación normal. Una nieta narrando el funeral de su abuela, y acerca de su bolsa de mano perdida. Y de pronto entre relatos de escuela y amigas buscando entre ropa de segunda mano, Zofia, la abuela que juega scrabble y que cuenta historias que su madre afirma son todas mentiras, aparece el cuento mágico del bolso que contiene un micromundo de hadas y gente debajo de las colinas.
Zofia never looked like a grandmother. She had long black hair which she wore up in little, braided, spiky towers and plaits. She had large blue eyes. She was taller than my father. She looked like a spy or ballerina or a lady pirate or a rock star. She acted like one too. For example, she never drove anywhere. She rode a bike. It drove my mother crazy. “Why can’t you act your age?” she’d say, and Zofia would just laugh. Zofia and I played Scrabble all the time. Zofia always won, even though her English wasn’t all that great, because we’d decided that she was allowed to use Baldeziwurleki vocabulary.
Me encantó.
2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, 2005 Locus Award for Best Novelette
Hugo - Nebula finalist novellete in 1975 Locus Award 1976
Relato corto que es narrado en forma paralela. Belle, la narradora nos cuenta que en Portland,Hugo - Nebula finalist novellete in 1975 Locus Award 1976
Relato corto que es narrado en forma paralela. Belle, la narradora nos cuenta que en Portland, Estados Unidos, en una sociedad distopica sujeta a cataclismos , donde la costa se hunde, y la crisis climática es peor, el gobierno se aferra al dominio de la población en forma autocratica, les provee de energía en forma limitada por la escasez, y solamente a remedios que son de su invención y control, el matrimonio esta fuera de la ley así como el embarazo, mientras que las voces disentoras son enviadas a campos y/o hospitales siquiatricos .
No doubt she’d wanted to be a doctor, too; and the Federal Medical Association doesn’t admit women into the medical schools. She probably got her training as some other doctor’s private pupil, under the counter. Very much as Simon learned mathematics, since the universities don’t teach much but Business Administration and Advertising and Media Skills any more.
Mientras tanto , la otra linea narrativa nos deja especulando si es parte onírica, de los sueños de los habitantes que hablan de nuevas tierras emergiendo, de un futuro distinto; o bien es parte de algún recuerdo futuro.
We saw the pavement beneath the creature and the wall beside it, heartbreaking in its exact, clear linearity, its opposition to all that was fluid, random, vast, and void. We saw the creature’s claws, slowly reaching out and retracting like small stiff fingers, touch the wall. Its plumage of light quivering, it dragged itself along and vanished behind the corner of the wall. So we knew that the wall was there; and that it was an outer wall, a housefront, perhaps, or the side of one of the towers of the city. We remembered the towers. We remembered the city. We had forgotten it. We had forgotten who we were; but we remembered the city, now.
This review is just for the short story "The Year Without Sunshine" by Naomi Kritzer -4.5 stars
Hugo award for novellete 2024
Un vecindario se une para This review is just for the short story "The Year Without Sunshine" by Naomi Kritzer -4.5 stars
Hugo award for novellete 2024
Un vecindario se une para afrontar un fenomeno climatico , lleno de polvo y sombreado, con cortes de energia. Afortunadamente tienen agua y eso es bastante.
Heartwarming. Intergenerational Frienship. Bonding over love for BL manga. Fangirling. Comicons. Doujinshis. Growing up. Leting go.
Acabo de ver 3.5 stars
Heartwarming. Intergenerational Frienship. Bonding over love for BL manga. Fangirling. Comicons. Doujinshis. Growing up. Leting go.
Acabo de ver que asi como en Fangirl, han sacado una miniserie con el manga BL sobre el que Ichinoi y Urara fangirlean en la historia: "You're the Only One I Want to See" by Komeda Yu (Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai ).
I watched the film yesterday, and it's so cute that prompted me to read the rest of this short series (5 volumes). The casting of the protagonists of I watched the film yesterday, and it's so cute that prompted me to read the rest of this short series (5 volumes). The casting of the protagonists of the movie are spot on, and the old lady is so sweet!
Here Ichinoi convinces Urara to make her own manga for a dojinchi convention. There are some nerves and stuff, because Urara is supposed to be studying for her final exams....more
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