About Nessa
Wyrdwritere, "master" critic, petty dabbler in writing, avid reader, coffee addict, music lover, skincare nerd and makeup aficionado.
Hello dear reader(s) and welcome back! If you haven’t read my previous blog post Reading in the Time of Corona – you can click on the link and have a read. Basically I muse what kind of texts (books, audiobooks, comics, manga, magazines) one should look for and what to avoid like the plague. 😀 This is the continuation of that text in which I’m going to give a few lots and lots reading recommendations. Apparently. 😀
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Tags: A Million Years in a Day, A Ruin of Shadows, Becky Chambers, Ben Aaronovitch, Catherine Hanley, David Mogo Godhunter, Dead Famous, Edwin Weaver, Face Paint: The Story of Makeup, fiction, Gabriel Rodriguez, Greg Jenner, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, Keiko Series, Kwame Mbalia, L. D. Lewis, LeVar Burton, LeVar Burton Reads, Lex Legis, Life on Air, Lila Zauali, Lisa Eldridge, Locke and Key, Makana, Matilda, Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World, Mike Brooks, mona eltahawy, non-fiction, P. Djeli Clark, Parker Bilal, Peter Frankopan, R. F. Kuang, Raffaela Sarti, Rebecca Roanhorse, Rivers of London, S. A. Chakraborty, Sir David Attenborough, Small Spaces, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Tad Williams, Tanja Radman, The Daevabad Trology, The Expanse, The Hobbit, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, The New Silk Roads, The Popp War, The Seven Necessary Sins For Women And Girls, The Silk Roads, The Sixt World, the usual suspects, The War of the Flowers, Tolkien, Tristan Strong, Vita di casa, You're Dead to Me
What do you read when you’re isolating or social distancing yourself from others to help prevent the spread of infection? How do you choose the appropriate reading material to help you “survive” your isolation? Should you read new editions or old favourites? What genres and topics to pick? What media to choose: books, e-books, audio books, comics, manga, magazines, fanfiction? The choices are unlimited and mayhap overwhelming… However, we also have to acknowledge the fact that in some parts of the world, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus, libraries and book shops are closing down. So your choice of reading material can be limited.
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Tags: audiobooks, book chat, book recommendations, books, comic book, fiction, magazine, manga, non-fiction, tips and tricks
Hello dear reader(s) and welcome to another (quite spoiler-y) episode of Nessa reads and reviews. Spooky season is upon us, so in today’s instalment I’ll do my very best to write a concise and coherent review of Katherine Arden’s horror series Small Spaces. Most likely I will fail on both fronts, but we’ll see how it goes yeah. 🙂 As I mentioned in the very first sentence of this text there will be spoilers in this review. If I can, I usually do my very best to avoid spoilers while writing a review, but sometimes they are necessary. The most important thing is that everyone is aware of this fact at the very beginning so they can skip ahead to the opinion part of the text, or skip the text entirely. Ye have been warned. 🙂
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Tags: book review, books, Dead Voices, fantasy, for children of all ages, horror, Katherine Arden, Mat Saunders, Nessa reads and reviews, Small Spaces, Small Spaces series
Hello dear reader(s) and welcome back to another episode of Nessa reads and reviews! It’s been a while since I last posted and the non-activity is mostly due to the combination of work, having family over and very little free time. Sadly (well at least for me it’s sad, I don’t know about you guys) the only reading I managed to in August was during Dewey’s Reverse Readathon that was held on the 2nd of August. However, even that was disrupted by my job and life in general. But at least I managed to read 3 books on the Kindle app on my mobile phone during that weekend so I’ll take my victories where I can get them. 😀
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Tags: Ben Aaronovitch, book review, books, e-books, Nessa reads and reviews, Rebecca Roanhorse, review, Rivers of London series, Storm of Locusts, The October Man, The Sixths World, Trail of Lightning