THE FICTIONFOX

Often times, all books about disability or illness are thrown onto the same heap, regardless of the perspective they focus on.

Poetry 1. Ariel – Sylvia Plath The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy',...

For this all-time-favourite series, I’ve made an attempt to narrow each genre-list down to a top 10, and have managed to do so for the majority of them. Literary fiction proved one where that was a hopeless endeavor from the start. Not is it my most-read genre by a hefty length, the sheer variety of books within it (and all my unique reasons for loving them), meant I settled for a top 20-ish and a bunch of honourable mentions instead. As with the other lists, these are subjec

If my “one-on-one-off” pattern of previous years holds true, it’s 2024’s turn to be a fantastic reading-year. With some of these...

Compiling my favourites list was a bit of a different experience compared to the past few years. Where the struggle was often in...

With only 10 spots on my favourites-list each year, there are bound to be more that deserve a shout-out. None more so than the books that...

It’s become one of my most treasured bookish traditions by now: my fiveparter Year In Review series. Not only do I love putting these...

In which I talk about 30-ish of my favourite science-fiction novels, organized by trope and subgenre. Time Travel & Alternate...

Up until about 5 or 6 years ago, horror was a genre I actively avoided. Having my only exposure to it as a child/young teen being the cheesy spooks of the Goosebumps-books, I never really developed a taste for them. Then, a few years ago, well into my personal reading-renaissance, I suddenly found myself possessed by the spirit of horror and delved deep into the dark, gothic and chilling side of fiction. As of today, horror is probably in my top-5 genres from which I read the

I’ve fallen back on books at the most difficult times in my life more times than I can count. They’ve been a comfort, an escape, and at...

Genre: fantasy Published: DAW books, November 2023 Marketed as: "latest entry in The Kingkiller Chronicles series", #2.6 As a general...

August has come to an end and with that, so has the second part of the Orilium Readathon. I managed to complete every prompt I set out to...

Returning readers will need no introduction to this readathon, as I’ve participated in it since its birth years back. Bookroasts G’s...

With the start of July, we’ve made it halfway through 2023, which means it’s time for a mid-year check-in. Where in previous years I’ve...

At the start of April I shared my TBR for the Magical Readathon in which I mentioned my goal of completing 12 books to fit the prompts...

As this is a continuation of an ongoing readathon (although you can join at any moment, as G explains in all of her videos and posts),...

Suspiciously Specific is a new bi-weekly series of assorted book recommendations, inspired by the subreddit by the same name, as well as...

Houses and Buildings 1. Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Genre: horror, classic The Setting: there is no way to do a list on...

Urban Settings 1. The City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky Genre: fantasy The Setting: The city of Ilmar truly is more of the...

Suspiciously Specific is a new bi-weekly series of assorted book recommendations, inspired by the subreddit by the same name, as well as...