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Robin Shipton 📚

robinshipton@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years, 4 months ago

Reader and (now) writer of #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #romance, with a smattering of all kinds of other stuff: #history, #polyamory, #WritingCraft, #philosophy, and #TTRPG books.

Mildly #queer, #TransRights supporter, #parent, and #Canadian. #AntiRacism is a process not a checkbox.

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commented on The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (The Brothers Sinister, #1)

Courtney Milan: The Duchess War (EBook, 2012, Courtney Milan)

Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that …

Very early meet-cute! I like the MCs already, save a few tiny off notes. This is really early Milan, but it’s already quite polished. Tightly paced, almost—but not quite—feeling rushed.

I’m enjoying this. Onward!

commented on Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Tamsyn Muir: Nona the Ninth (Hardcover, 2022)

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …

The story is thoroughly engaging even while I still don’t know what the heck is really going on. It’s telling an enjoyable story while feeding the reader enough clues to the mystery to feel like both are making steady progress in tandem.

Nora Ephron: Heartburn (Paperback, 1996, Vintage Books)

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? …

"Heartburn, Ephron’s only novel, is a thinly veiled and darkly hilarious story about a woman whose husband has an affair when she’s seven months pregnant." —Isabel Kaplan, "My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I'm a writer"