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Octavia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Octavia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
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2021
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The Stone Wētā
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2020
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The Mussel Eater
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2014
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You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories
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2023
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Trading Rosemary
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2010
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Sharp & Sugar Tooth (Women Up To No Good #3)
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2019
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The Convergence of Fairy Tales
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2016
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The August Birds
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2015
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Mary Shelley Makes a Monster (Conversation Pieces Book 70)
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Sauna and the Cartography of Swamps
I have a new chapter out! “The Cartography of Swamps: Making and Breaking Boundaries in Sauna” can be found in Baltic Horror in Film, Gaming and Literature, edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and published by the University of Wales Press.
I have to admit that, when I saw the call for papers for this, I didn’t send in an abstract because I knew a great deal about Baltic horror. I actually kne
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| This is far and away my favourite part of the book series so far. It's a completely fluffy little short, in which Posy gets her happy ending, and there's not even a tiny bit of melodrama in it (very likely because neither Posy or her vicar are Bridge ...more | |
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| I finally got around to watching season 4 of the Netflix series, so I thought I'd follow it up with the book. The series was better. I don't mean to say that I disliked the book, because I didn't - I've been reading the book series in order and I thi ...more | |
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| I read and reviewed these two separately, so the rating for this collection is an average. I enjoyed Viscount, which got three stars from me, but I was not a fan of Duke. I found it very hard to sympathise with Daphne's actions in that one, and even ...more | |
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| This short poetry collection is written by a doctor and inspired by the Ebola outbreak of 2014. It's a great example of science communication, and I note at the back of the book there's a link to teacher resources to help with sharing the poems here ...more | |
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| I've read a bit of Barry's work before, and I think I consistently find her nonfiction work more interesting than her fictional comics - not that I don't enjoy the latter, because I do! - but because I find something very appealing about her approach ...more | |
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| Three and a half stars, rounding up. When I reviewed the individual books collected here, I gave Rogue Protocol three stars and Exit Strategy four, so the average is obvious. While I enjoyed both books, I did find Protocol a little less interesting - ...more | |
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| I like this better that the last two in the series - it feels as if Murderbot is on something of an upswing, which is nice. I mean, yes, it's still a grumpy, emotionally-repressed pessimist (which I admittedly find entertaining), but the overall plot ...more | |
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| This was lovely. I was deeply amused by Sibling Dex's grumpy traversal of the wild, however, because whenever I go tramping (a voluntary endeavour!) I always start out bitching to myself about why the hell I've chosen to do something so uncomfortable ...more | |
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| When I first realised, several pages in, that this novel alternated between first person accounts of mother and daughter - accounts that had minimal visual demarcation, at that - it took me a little while to remember who was who. And while that may b ...more | |
“Food is fuel, food is pleasure, food is guilt. It stands to reason that with all these digestive undercurrents there are storytellers who will treat a shared act of consumption as a sort of shared subversive act, a communion of Oh, I shouldn’t really. We shouldn’t.”
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
“Self-knowledge was the clearest thing in the world. It was also the unkindest.”
― The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
― The Impossible Resurrection of Grief
“In Fantasia, the physics is different. It’s not the property of mass that’s causing people to throw themselves into the Nothing, to let themselves be devoured into suicide. It’s imagination and feeling and inspiration that’s the basic currency of this world. The expectation of wonder is what holds Fantasia together—wonder and creative currents, fantasy and inventiveness. These are the things that give meaning and purpose to Fantasia and its citizens. So when the Nothing comes along, devouring all these things indiscriminately, undermining their importance in a fundamental way, its very lack calls to the part of the Fantasian people that is the very opposite of imagination… the angst and nihilism inherent in each individual. The part that says What if we’ve been wrong all along? It doesn’t take much doubt (just a little chunk) but the resulting horror feeds on every positive thought, every creative impulse, until the symmetry of lack between the Nothing and the despairing individual acts as gravity, drawing them closer and closer to the Nothing until the only alternative is to become part of it. It really is like a black hole.”
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
― Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings
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4th Quarter 2020 - SciFi #3
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez, 391p
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, 256p
The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade, 133p
A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen, 400p
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs, 184p
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It's from the trip to Wellington zoo we did!
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I love the Read Harder challenge, this is my third year doing it now. Really makes you try new things - I even read a western last year because of it!