The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia by Shigeru MiyamotoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars As a huge Legend of Zelda fan, I had to grab a copy of this for myself one day. Sooner rather than later, I found a copy at the local bookstore and treated myself! Although I had seen many of the…
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy TanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, it only took two months, but I finished “Saving Fish From Drowning,” the final Amy Tan novel. And one of my favorites. So why did it take me so long to finish reading this a second time? To the point where I…
Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline CareyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars In the latest installment of Travel the World With Moirin, we find our young heroine setting out from Ch’in (China) to find her One True Love Bao, who has ran off to Tatar country (Mongolia.) Once they are reunited (of couuurrrssee) everything goes to hell,…
Naamah’s Kiss by Jacqueline CareyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars After jumping into Carey’s alt-history fantasy world with Phèdre’s trilogy and having my mind blow, and then having my heart ripped out of my chest by Imriel’s trilogy, I thought it was time to jump into Moirin’s trilogy. It begins with NAAMAH’S KISS, about one…
The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy TanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is the second to last Amy Tan novel I have yet to re-read, and like “Hundred Secret Senses,” I realized I couldn’t remember a dang thing about this book. “The Joy Luck Club” is all about switching POVs between eight characters,…
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy TanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars As I’m reading all of Amy Tan’s works again, I realized, upon reading all their summaries, that “The Hundred Secret Senses” was the only book I couldn’t remember anything about. (I read all the books around the same time before, so it wasn’t…
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. BeagleMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Since I was a child, I have loved unicorns. And since I was a child, every unicorn I see or dream of will be compared to this one. I, like many others, came to Peter S. Beagle, and specifically, his magnum opus “The…
Queer Japan: Personal Stories Of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals And Bisexuals by Barbara SummerhawkMy rating: 5 of 5 stars I bought this book on a whim when I was searching Amazon for books about lesbianism in Japan – as you can imagine, there isn’t a whole lot out there, so this book jumped out at…
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy TanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars If there’s one thing Amy Tan is comfortable with, it’s the mother-daughter relationship, particularly between Chinese immigrant mothers and their jaded American-born daughters. “The Kitchen God’s Wife” is absolutely no exception. Tan’s sophomore novel, “The Kitchen God’s Wife” follows on the footstep’s of…
The Witch Sea by Sarah DiemerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars This was another short lesbian-themed romance I picked up for free on my Kindle. (Didn’t see it free last time, so maybe it’s limited time?) The cover was also lovely and the overall plot was fantasy, so I was immediately intrigued. “The Witch Sea”…