Tag: reading

  • Autumn Books Preview: Cathedral of Myth and Bone

    Autumn Books Preview: Cathedral of Myth and Bone

    If you haven’t read Kat Howard’s Roses and Rot yet you are missing out. Especially if dark, drifting, fantasy is your thing. Her stories are never saccharine and always pack a punch. That’s why we were overjoyed with A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, a series of short stories dealing with the weird and wonderful in the most magical way. With stories dealing…

  • Re-reading Ursula Le Guin

    Re-reading Ursula Le Guin

    Cinders Editor Méabh McDonnell can list five books that changed her life, Ursula Le Guin’s Very Far Away from Anywhere Else is one of them. To mark  Ursula K. Le Guin’s death earlier this year, she talks about how her books affected her.  “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it…

  • Book Review- Not if I save you First by Ally Carter

    Book Review- Not if I save you First  by Ally Carter

    How many times have you thought – life as a secret service agent must be fun? Many? Me too. Well, Maddie Manchester knows exactly what it’s like. Because her father was one. He isn’t anymore, because, well, that’s what happens when your father takes a bullet for the president. He tends to re-think his priorities…