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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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January 2012

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Hello, I read a lot. I love books in all their forms: spoken, written and drawn. However, I've not written any books myself -- my 'author' status is for narrating other people's books, mostly at LibriVox. :)

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Here's how my reading rating system currently works:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - I adore this book and will recommend it at any opportunity

⭐⭐⭐⭐ - this is a great read and worth your time unless your book taste is miles different to mine

⭐⭐⭐ - this is a solid read, didn't send me to the giddy heights of more stars, but each to their own

⭐⭐ - I had a problem with this book, it really wasn't for me

⭐ - I seriously disliked this book and the author is dead,
OR I disliked this book so completely that I'm going to override m ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 569 ratings · 135 reviews · 62 distinct works

	Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, David Muncaster (Narrator), mb (Narrator) 3.74 avg rating — 2,887,812 ratings — published 1590 — 9871 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.92 avg rating — 1,997,194 ratings — published 1818 — 13326 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.09 avg rating — 962,377 ratings — published 1843 — 2636 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persuasion by Jane Austen, Tina Tilney (Narrator), Kara Shallenberg (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.15 avg rating — 808,529 ratings — published 1817 — 636 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.44 avg rating — 940,988 ratings — published 1850	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Kara Shallenberg (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Patricia Oakley (Narrator) 3.85 avg rating — 470,903 ratings — published 1817 — 4225 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Stephan Möbius (Narrator), Katy Preston (Narrator) 3.88 avg rating — 437,295 ratings — published 1838 — 1437 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 3.83 avg rating — 361,203 ratings — published 1898 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 4.01 avg rating — 303,575 ratings — published 1877 — 4323 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, Cori Samuel (Goodreads Author) (narrator) 4.22 avg rating — 280,298 ratings — published 1929 — 2488 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cori Samuel rated a book liked it The Library of Botanical Witchcraft by Jasmine Wigham (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An introvert heroine, Thalia, gets a job at the library of a magical university, in order to get access to the books that might be able to save her cursed twin sister, Hebe. There's a lot of cosy elements here: the sisters' cottage, the library, the s ...more
Aug 30, 2026 12:16PM · 2 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book it was amazing As We Fall Through Time by Claire North	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Enjoyable time-travel story, wherein time-traveller Cal falls for French Revolutionary soldier Olivier, tweaks time a little to save his life, and then things get very complicated. I loved the way different timelines were woven in -- there's a frankly ...more
Aug 30, 2026 11:53AM · 3 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it Line of Descent by Adam Oyebanji	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I do enjoy a good generation ship story, and this worked pretty well for me -- our MC Faisal, a ship's security officer, is investigating a very unlikely-seeming kidnapping, and discovers An Entire Plot. I could maybe have done with a bit more worldbu ...more
Aug 19, 2026 09:26AM · 4 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book it was amazing Saved by the Spell by Tanya Huff	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
'Abbott Elementary', but make it magical and Canadian! This landed perfectly for me: our middle-aged MC, Abby, who is an experienced teacher of magic in an elite boarding school, discovers the ominous signs of A Hero Rising among the new students, and ...more
Aug 19, 2026 09:21AM · 6 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it Infection Points: A Winter Census of Urban Predators by Elena Pavlova	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this contemporary, gritty take on vampires, set in Bulgaria and with excellent world-building for such a quick read. It did move a little faster than I was ready for, I wasn't paying quite enough attention to who was who since the pl ...more
Aug 16, 2026 08:31AM · 4 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book really liked it Daggerbound (Swordheart, #2) by T. Kingfisher	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wherein Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, and The Dervish, a traumatised warrior trapped in an enchanted sword, absolutely do not romance each other in any way and there are no Feelings on either side, and it just won't work out -- or will it, ...more
Aug 16, 2026 08:27AM · 4 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book liked it My Name is MacKenzie Bly by Lissa Evans (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm a huge fan of Nigel Molesworth, so this cover had my attention straightaway. And I liked, didn't love, Adrian Mole, so ... was primed to be all over this. And it was ... fine. It's not as witty as Molesworth, nor as angsty as Mole; the MC Philip ( ...more
Aug 11, 2026 01:30PM · 1 like · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book liked it Slow Burn by Amal Singh (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A struggling actor, Rishi, falls through a mirror into an alternate Mumbai where he's a superstar. Things get messy. I don't know how to feel about this one, really. I enjoyed some aspects of it -- in particular the alternate version of the MC and the ...more
Aug 11, 2026 12:45PM · 2 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book liked it Fold Catastrophes by Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
As I read, I ended up approaching these as fiction essays, rather than stories as such. As other reviewers have mentioned, the character work is the minimum required to set up the plot, and the plot is the minimum required to explicate each one's cen ...more
Aug 10, 2026 01:21PM · 4 likes · like · see review
Cori Samuel rated a book it was amazing Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Superb murder mystery in a magical medical school setting -- LOVED this! What would I have liked to know, as I went into this book? I definitely needed to know that it had five POVs. Because the first chapter demonstrates the deep level of everyday de ...more
Aug 10, 2026 12:29PM · 6 likes · like · see review

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Cori’s Quotes

“Little houses, bigger ones, scrolled and capacious porches, dark windows, leaves of trees already rich with May, homes of rooms which chambered sleep as honey is cherished, drifted past their slow walking and were left behind, and not a light in any home.”
― James Agee, A Death in the Family

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“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”
― Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments

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“So what's a nurse? [...]
Basically someone who does all the work of helping people without any of the credit.”
― Zack Schoppen, The Midwizard of Cosconia

tags: nurses, nursing

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“Artificial or not, the knowledge of existing borders delineates the world. They are a social technology that creates emotional reality, that creates physical reality.”
― Isabel J. Kim, Sublimation

tags: borders, immigration

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