Monthly Archives: October 2025

Reading Well: The Priory of the Orange Tree and A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

Posted on October 25, 2025 by Daniel (@MKNN)

About the same time I finished Samantha Shannon‘s 2019 novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, I decided to wait to publish things on Reading Well until series of books were complete (or, at least, as complete as current information … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: Lilith’s Brood by Octavia Butler

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Daniel (@MKNN)

{ This is hilarious. I actually wrote about Lilith’s Brood way back in 2016, but hadn’t remembered that when I re-read them with a good friend recently. So, yeah. Here’s the original write up. It’s different, and I’m intrigued by … Continue reading →

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Reading Well: Celine by Peter Heller

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Daniel (@MKNN)

In my writeup of Peter Heller‘s The Last Ranger, I wrote Heller’s gifts are in his descriptions of the natural world and in his explorations of alternate modes of contemporary masculinity, and both are on full display in The Last Ranger. … Continue reading →

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