It’s that time, again. I am listening to a book–Smoke, by Dan Vyleta– that is filled with kickassery goodness. Well, not as in Chuck Norris kickassery, but as in just total alternate history, conspiracy, dark DARK dark icky gooky Smoke disease/madness/sin mixed in with a boys’ school in the 1800s and lots of nefarious characters. This was a very polluted and smokey period in England due to manufacturing and the...

Three out of four of these books fit the February #DiverseReads2017 Challenge which is more a relection of my interests than the challenge so far. I think the idea of this challenge is to stretch people, and so far it has simply corresponded to my reading desires and given me incentive to reach farther. All were great reads. I hope you find something you like here! I will need to actually work a little harder to choose a book for the March...

I’ve been a bit surprised to see how many of the recommended diverse SFF books I’ve already read, which becomes more obvious when I’m looking for something for this challenge. On the other hand it’s not all that surprising since one of the things I love about reading is the opportunity to ‘live’ another life, experience another world, and that includes the characters, not just the universe they are in. I need...