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reviewed Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories by Michael Moorcock (Elric of Melniboné (Gollancz edition), #1)

Michael Moorcock: Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories (EBook, 2014, Gollancz)

Elric of Melniboné is the classic fantasy antihero who transformed the genre, an evil emperor …

Bel romanzo principale, paratesti disastrati

Premetto che ho iniziato Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories a Novembre 2017, l'ho interrotto a metà e l'ho ricominciato da capo oggi, 28 Agosto 2018 – e me lo sono finito tutto d'un fiato. Ho dovuto fruirlo così perché Moorcock e il personale della Gollancz si sono chiaramente fatti di acidi e hanno usato questo volume come discarica in cui stampare tutti i saggi miscellanei che avevano in archivio: fra prefazioni e postfazioni ci ritroviamo a leggere una dopo l'altra introduzioni multiple alla vita e all'opera di Moorcock, introduzioni al genere sword & sorcery in generale e alla saga di Elric in particolare, saggi di critica letteraria scritti da Moorcock, la prefazione a una specifica edizione di uno specifico testo, persino quello che sembra essere il trascritto di una conferenza, e infine un saggio lungo che è stato diviso in più parti per spalmarlo su tutti i sei volumi …

Johnnie Christmas: Swim Team (Hardcover, 2022, HarperAlley)

Swim Team MC Book Review (RLR 520)

Swim Team by #1 New York Times bestselling author, Johnnie Christmas, is a graphic novel about a young girl who takes on a new home, new friends, and a daunting new sport. It has been the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award Longlist, Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, BCALA Literary Award Winner, Black-Eyed Susan Award, Maud Hart Lovelace Award, Yellowhammer Award, and Jane Addams Book Award Honor. Bree, the main character, reluctantly joins “Swim 101” after all other elective classes are full. From there, she must face her fears of the water as she also navigates new friends and some new not-so-friendly classmates. As we follow Bree on this journey, we learn about the historic segregation and oppression Black Americans faced as they fought for the right to swim in public pools and beaches and how spirit, determination, and community can be the missing puzzle-pieces to success. …

reviewed The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

John Scalzi: The Ghost Brigades (EBook, 2007, Tor)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …

Where's John Perry?

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3

Marion G. Harmon: Small Town Heroes (Paperback)

Astra has become one of the most popular Sentinels in Chicago, past scandals notwithstanding, and …

Not really part #4

This is book #4 in the series, but it's not the fourth part. Apparently there's a short story, "Omega Night", and it contained both plot and character developments that significantly impact this book. However, even on the official author's website it's not listed between books 3 and 4. It's listed after the final book, among other "related works".

And the author doesn't really do a good job of recapping what happened, it's just an abrupt jump, and now Hope/Astra's angsting over a new crush that started during that book, freaking out over a danger to one of her friends that's due to events in that book, and a number of other sudden changes.

And these changes continue to casually come up over the course of the entire book, so that put a serious damper on my enjoyment of it.

Beyond that, the premise/setting was unique and somewhat …

Titles are dumb

Despite the two main characters having the same character, this was fun and fresh and slightly silly. It reminds me of Unsouled (Cradle #1) but also a bit of Ed Greenwood's Band of Four series.