A.K. LEE

Fuel, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea. The seven essentials of a Chinese household - and salt is the first condiment listed....

#bookreview #grimreader #death #dying I have reviewed one essay from this collection, but it occurred to me a few days after I'd posted...

#reviews #thegrimreader #essays #death #dying #plague This is a collection of writings edited by Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman. It's...

“You weren’t to blame. Violence is the fault of the one enacting it. Always.” The second book in the Tensorate series, The Red Threads of...

“The saying goes, ‘The black tides of heaven direct the courses of human lives.’ To which a wise teacher said, ‘But as with all waters,...

The truth has got its boots on. And it's going to start kicking. I have made my admiration of Terry Pratchett very obvious, but I have...

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions...

In a world where some humans are evolving and developing special, even incredible, abilities, the Evolved Ones – EOs – face grave...

Nearly everyone has hands, which is why we don’t pay much attention to them. They’re such an essential part of our lives that we...

also known as: What football will look like in the future, by Jon Bois I came across this speculative multimedia science fiction story...

In the fourth novella, The Assassin and the Underworld, we see Celaena put in a rough position as she needs to decide what she truly...

The Assassin and the Desert follows Celaena on her trek through the desert to meet with the Mute Master and gain his approval or be...

The story of The Assassin and the Healer is set almost immediately after The Assassin and the Pirate Lord. After having returned to...

Less of a review and more of a reflection, really. My copy of Good Omens Good Omens is on Amazon Prime. I haven’t watched it. There, it’s...

The story of The Assassin and the Pirate Lord follows Celaena and her companion, Sam, in a moment set before the series begins. Sent away...

After a hectic month of personal-life turmoil and this general vibe of this book taking forever to get through, we have finally reached...

(This post first appeared in Lucien's site.) At last we have come to the conclusion of Crown of Midnight! If you haven’t finished the...

Coming at you a little behind schedule, it’s the third checkpoint for the #TWOTOGCountdown read-a-long! By now I hope that everyone...

It’s the second checkpoint for the #TWOTOGCountdown read-a-long! By now I hope that everyone participating has had the time to get up to...

(I've previously interviewed Julie Cohen on her book here) I had fun comparing the parallel lives of Louis and Louise, which is the...