Bookdwarf

Those who love speculative fiction and are looking for something new and well-written, should run to get a copy of Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning. In her debut novel, most of the world ...

https://bookdwarf.com/2018/10/26/book-review-trail-of-lightning-by-rebecca-roanhorse/

A few weeks back, some asshole broke into the server hosting this here blog and it got deleted almost entirely. Fuck. Luckily the server had back up and I’ve managed to put it mostly back toget...

https://bookdwarf.com/2018/10/12/im-back/

I thought I’d mention some of the amazing books I read last year. Some I read in 2017 but will be out in 2018, One of best novels I read coming in just one week is Chloe Benjamin’s The Immort...

https://bookdwarf.com/2018/01/05/books-i-loved-in-2017/

I haven’t disappeared I promise! I still read a ton (even when brushing my teeth) but found myself feeling less excited writing review after review. But after a year or more off, I’m going to...

https://bookdwarf.com/2018/01/04/welcome-2018-musings-on-reading-writing/

A fantastic debut, that strides the line between adult and YA fiction, Rabbit Cake tells the story of 12-year-old Elvis Babbit, whose mother recently drowned while sleepwalking. Elvis loves facts...

https://bookdwarf.com/2017/02/10/3802/

If I haven’t mentioned, Mr. Bookdwarf and I bought a house last year that needed to be completely gutted. We finally unpacked most of our cookbooks a few weeks back and start cooking, but now...

https://bookdwarf.com/2017/01/27/food-post/

We started unpacking cookbooks that had been in storage for over a year in our new house. I forgot how many I have! Mr. Bookdwarf and I decided to make a recipe from each cookbook, as a way to tr...

https://bookdwarf.com/2017/01/05/food-post-cookbook-challenge/

The Invisible Library had me at “interdimensional secret agent librarian” but it turns out to also be a charmingly-written novel with a wry awareness of literary tropes and their permutations...

https://bookdwarf.com/2016/07/25/mr-bookdwarf-reviews-the-invisible-library-by-genevieve-cogman/

I like a lot of historical novels but for a lot of them I have a similar objection: The narrator or protagonist has anachronistically modern views. This, of course, makes it easier to identify wi...

https://bookdwarf.com/2016/05/09/from-mr-bookdwarf-two-by-m-j-carter-the-strangler-vine-and-the-infidel-stain/

The exonerated suspect in a notorious kidnapping case is suddenly dead. Journalists and police descend upon Joanie, his widow, to try to get her to share the real story behind what went on when...

https://bookdwarf.com/2016/03/23/from-mr-bookdwarf-the-widow-by-fiona-barton/