Posts tagged: Carlos Fuentes
Release Week: Paul Cornell's London Falling, Mary Robinette Kowal's Valour and Vanity, and Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra
Posted on 2014-04-30 at 16:17 by Sam
APRIL 23-29, 2014: Last week I warned that it would be a quiet week in terms of numbers, and that bore out, though two excellent titles make for two easy top recommendations this week, and Audible's production of no fewer than nine books by Carlos Fuentes make for quite a literary feast. There's ALSO a pile of books for young readers to check out including Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw and Tania Unsworth's The One Safe Place, as well as plenty more for adults including Jeremy
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged Carlos Fuentes, london falling, mary robinette kowal, one safe place, paul cornell, rc bray, terra nostra, valour and vanity
Listening report: July 2012
Posted on 2012-10-02 at 13:57 by Sam
After ending a run of eight audiobooks in my June listening with the amazing The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, I listened to seven audiobooks in August, with Michael J. Sullivan’s Theft of Swords, Daniel O’Malley’s The Rook, and G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen being the outstanding listens.
REVIEWS:
- Earth Unaware By Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, Narrated by
Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged alif the unseen, Carlos Fuentes, earth unaware, into the black, james maxey, john scalzi, michael j sullivan, monthly listening report, orson scott card, the rook, theft of swords
Release Week: Vlad; Neil Gaiman Presents Ellen Kushner's The Privilege of the Sword; Charles Yu; and Charles Stross's The Apocalypse Codex
Posted on 2012-07-25 at 16:27 by Sam
The release week for Tuesday, July 24 brings quite a few titles I’m very interested in. Luckily, two of the audiobooks I’ve most got my eyes on are on the shorter side.
Vlad By Carlos Fuentes, translated by Alejandro Branger and Ethan Shaskan Bumas, narrated by Robert Fass for Dreamscape Media (Dalkey Archive Press, 112 pages) — Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins — “Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a
Read more...