Header image with four cats and the text: Pussreboots, a book review nearly every day. Online since 1997
Now 2025 Previous Articles Road Essays Road Reviews Author Black Authors Title Source Age Genre Series Format Inclusivity LGBTA+ Art Portfolio Purchase Art WIP

Recent posts


Month in review

Reviews
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
Edible Colors by Jennifer Vogel Bass
The Extremely High Tide! by Kir Fox and and M. Shelley Coats
Fearless Mary by Tami Charles and Claire Almon
Fire Storm by Andrew Lane
The Hollow under the Tree by Cary Fagan
The Horse in Harry's Room by Syd Hoff
I Date Dead People by Ann Kerns and Janina Görrissen
In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
The Misfits Club by Kieran Mark Crowley
The Missing Magic by Kallie George
My Life as a Diamond by Jenny Manzer
My Little Pony Micro-Series: #7 Cutie Mark Crusaders by Ted Anderson
My Little Pony: Micro-Series: #8: Princess Celestia by Georgia Ball
The Poisoned House by Michael Ford
The Ropemaker by Peter Dickinson
Rust: Soul in the Machine by Royden Lepp
A Script for Danger by Carolyn Keene
The Similars by Rebecca Hanover
Snake Bite by Andrew Lane
SOS at Night by M.A. Wilson
Tintin in Tibet by Hergé
The Uncertain Places by Lisa Goldstein
Under the Jolly Roger by L.A. Meyer
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink

Miscellaneous
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (January 07)
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (January 14)
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (January 21)
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (January 28)
December 2018 Sources
December 2018 Summary

Road Essays
FF6666: orphan going offroad towards home

FF6633: orphans going home along the Blue Highway

FF6600: Orphans looking for home on the Interstate

FF33FF: orphans in rural places surrounded by cornfields

FF33CC and FF3399: rural orphans in the maze and labyrinth

Road Narrative Update for December 2018

Previous month



Rating System

5 stars: Completely enjoyable or compelling
4 stars: Good but flawed
3 stars: Average
2 stars: OK
1 star: Did not finish


Privacy policy

This blog does not collect personal data. It doesn't set cookies. Email addresses are used to respond to comments or "contact us" messages and then deleted.


Road Narrative Update for December 2018: 01/12/19

Road Narrative Update for November 2018

I'm posting it later than I had planned because other new year related things took my attention.

I read three books in December, down by eight books from the previous month:

  1. Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea by Lynne Rae Perkins (CC3333)
  2. Very Rich by Polly Horvath (66CC33)
  3. The Bigfoot Files by Lindsay Eagar (339966)

Most of these books are middle grade either fiction or fantasy. Beneath the Sugar Sky is YA.

Narratives read by placement in the spectrum

CC333366CC33 339966

I reviewed or analyzed eight books:

  1. Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier (FF00CC: orphan city maze)
  2. Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (9999CC: minotaur wildlands maze)
  3. Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience™ by Rebecca Roanhorse (9966CC: minotaur home maze)
  4. Very Rich by Polly Horvath (66CC33: marginalized uhoric blue highway)
  5. Little Red Rodent Hood by Ursula Vernon (339933: couple wildlands blue highway)
  6. Charlie & Frog by Karen Kane (336666: couple home offroad)
  7. The Divided Earth by Faith Erin Hicks (330066 - family city offroad)
  8. Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth Clark (330000: couple city interstate)

Narratives reviewed by placement in the spectrum

FF00CC 9999CC 9966CC 66CC33
339933 336666 330066 330000

Finally I wrote these essays:

  1. FF9933 Orphan Wildlands Blue Highway
  2. FF66FF: orphan home cornfield: or who lives alone in a cornfield?
  3. FF66CC: Orphans at home in the maze
  4. FF6699: orphans at home in the labyrinth
  5. Twelve favorite Road Narrative Spectrum books read in 2018

December was divided between reading for Cybils and reading my 2018 purchases that I hadn't gotten to. Reading for the project was simply an afterthought but I have a sizable backlog of writing I need to do from books already read and films or TV shows watched.

Comments  (0)


Lab puppy
Name:
Email (won't be posted):
Blog URL:
Comment:

Tumblr Mastadon Flickr Facebook Facebook Contact me

1997-2025 Sarah Sammis