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Beads, Breasts, Bush, and Language Barriers at Beijing’s Panjiayuan Market[1]
[1: Wherever unavoidable, I will be translating Mandarin using the pinyin system, rather than Wade-Giles. Moreover, as I was in Beijing, and both of my primary sources (Pimsleur and Mark Frobose) use the ‘Pekingese’-accented Beijing dialect, which might be described as the pirate dialect of Mandarin Read more of this blog post »
Beads, Breasts, Bush, and Language Barriers at Beijing’s Panjiayuan Market[1]
[1: Wherever unavoidable, I will be translating Mandarin using the pinyin system, rather than Wade-Giles. Moreover, as I was in Beijing, and both of my primary sources (Pimsleur and Mark Frobose) use the ‘Pekingese’-accented Beijing dialect, which might be described as the pirate dialect of Mandarin Read more of this blog post »
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Felix ID Dimaro's Brain Dead Girls strikes close to home. With all the various fears of AI currently hanging over us, this is a slightly different approach, and one we could expect from an experienced horror author. Billionaire playboy Leonard Prince ...more |
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| I so love a good military sci-fi with a quippy narrator. I’m a weapon begins with the galactic empire trying to suppress a rebellion on the planet Diesl’Haal, narrated from the POV of one of the empire’s autonomous murder androids. In the opening cha ...more | |
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| A fantastic novella exploring the pitfalls of modern masculinity. MC Elgin is a bodybuilder whose whole conception of his malehood is bound up in his body, size, and physique, who then gets into a tragic car accident and loses all that. He becomes di ...more | |
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| From the author of The Utopia comes a wildly different novel, though no less entertaining. Who Killed Arnold Müller is a murder mystery cold case, solved ten years before but being revisited. Natalie Flint is a journalist with a struggling Toronto ne ...more | |
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A top-notch follow up to the unforgettable slasher classic, Amy. It's 6 years later. Amy is now 12. Still roughly immortal, a living zombie, subject of ongoing studies by everyone's favourite mad scientist, Thomas Raines. She's being held in a secure ...more |
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A good introduction to what will surely be an epic series. Gerrit van Eck’s The Reluctant Blade is a sharp, character-driven indie fantasy that strips away the sprawling bloat often found in the genre to deliver a lean, emotionally resonant story. Clo ...more |
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| How does one write an updated version of Austen's Pride and Prejudice for modern-day? Well, let's start by making it sex-positive to reflect the 21st century. Of course it should be set in Canada, the author's home country. It should reflect the mode ...more | |
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I came to this story unfamiliar with the champloo mash-up genre, and was so taken with the pitch that I was intrigued. The author, Tatiana Obey, comes to this with a magnificently crafted voice. The story is crafted to always up the ante, new action ...more |
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| A short novella kicking off a larger series, Son of the Thunder Goddess is a pre-Roman Celtic historical fantasy reminiscent of Martin, but also the Iliad. Our hero is Athewain, a simple shepherd, in a kingdom under attack from the ruthless warlord S ...more | |