An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in …
I gobbled this up. Jack Reacher is one tough guy. This was sort of like an Elmore Leonard crime novel, except more violent.
Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, …
For a Charles Stross book, I was finding this slow going until near the end when the pace picked up and the plot started to get interesting.
And then it was over.
With a long historical essay that I skimmed through.
Stross has done enough things I love that I'll keep reading everything he publishes. I just hope he gets back to having more fun with things.
For a Charles Stross book, I was finding this slow going until near the end when the pace picked up and the plot started to get interesting.
And then it was over.
With a long historical essay that I skimmed through.
Stross has done enough things I love that I'll keep reading everything he publishes. I just hope he gets back to having more fun with things.
Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, …
For a Charles Stross book, I was finding this slow going until near the end when the pace picked up and the plot started to get interesting.
And then it was over.
With a long historical essay that I skimmed through.
Stross has done enough things I love that I'll keep reading everything he publishes. I just hope he gets back to having more fun with things.
For a Charles Stross book, I was finding this slow going until near the end when the pace picked up and the plot started to get interesting.
And then it was over.
With a long historical essay that I skimmed through.
Stross has done enough things I love that I'll keep reading everything he publishes. I just hope he gets back to having more fun with things.
Fast-paced and engaging. But should definitely be read after [b:Last First Snow|23168830|Last First Snow (Craft Sequence, #4)|Max Gladstone|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1411416296s/23168830.jpg|42713969].
Fast-paced and engaging. But should definitely be read after [b:Last First Snow|23168830|Last First Snow (Craft Sequence, #4)|Max Gladstone|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1411416296s/23168830.jpg|42713969].
A fun and fast read.
John Hodgman has two vacation homes. But his stories did not make me want to have even one.
Just a terrific collection of sci-fi.
Lots of authors on my must-read list already and now I have a few more.
If you're thinking that by the cover this might be your kind of thing, it is.
Just a terrific collection of sci-fi.
Lots of authors on my must-read list already and now I have a few more.
If you're thinking that by the cover this might be your kind of thing, it is.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention …
I've been meaning to read this for years because I've really liked other books by E.L. Konigsburg and yesterday was a good day to bring a book along on a trip and this book was perfect.
The story is a delightful way of showing how a group of people can come together and by being kind to each other can enrich their lives and enrich the lives of the people around them.
No talking animals, but there is a smart dog and you learn something about turtles.
I've been meaning to read this for years because I've really liked other books by E.L. Konigsburg and yesterday was a good day to bring a book along on a trip and this book was perfect.
The story is a delightful way of showing how a group of people can come together and by being kind to each other can enrich their lives and enrich the lives of the people around them.
No talking animals, but there is a smart dog and you learn something about turtles.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention …
I've been meaning to read this for years because I've really liked other books by E.L. Konigsburg and yesterday was a good day to bring a book along on a trip and this book was perfect.
The story is a delightful way of showing how a group of people can come together and by being kind to each other can enrich their lives and enrich the lives of the people around them.
No talking animals, but there is a smart dog and you learn something about turtles.
I've been meaning to read this for years because I've really liked other books by E.L. Konigsburg and yesterday was a good day to bring a book along on a trip and this book was perfect.
The story is a delightful way of showing how a group of people can come together and by being kind to each other can enrich their lives and enrich the lives of the people around them.
No talking animals, but there is a smart dog and you learn something about turtles.
Philip Pullman: Belle Sauvage : the Book of Dust Volume One (2017, Random House Children's Books)
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed …
Completely satisfying. It might help to have read the Dark Materials trilogy first, but I don't think it's necessary. I remember very little of Dark Materials and didn't feel the loss.
And with the daimons that accompany all the humans in this world, you essentially get talking cats and talking rodents.
Completely satisfying. It might help to have read the Dark Materials trilogy first, but I don't think it's necessary. I remember very little of Dark Materials and didn't feel the loss.
And with the daimons that accompany all the humans in this world, you essentially get talking cats and talking rodents.
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed …
Completely satisfying. It might help to have read the Dark Materials trilogy first, but I don't think it's necessary. I remember very little of Dark Materials and didn't feel the loss.
And with the daimons that accompany all the humans in this world, you essentially get talking cats and talking rodents.
Completely satisfying. It might help to have read the Dark Materials trilogy first, but I don't think it's necessary. I remember very little of Dark Materials and didn't feel the loss.
And with the daimons that accompany all the humans in this world, you essentially get talking cats and talking rodents.
This is "young adult" but definitely the kind that adults should also read.
The narrator is an intelligent young woman with a debilitating obsessive mental disorder, but that's not what the story is about.
I really like how John Green dealt with all the issues that came up without succumbing to easy answers and fairy tale endings, but still showed how people can cope.
Here are some elements that might make you want to read this:
- astronomy
- fan fiction
- avant garde art
- billionaire life
- obsessive mental illness
This is "young adult" but definitely the kind that adults should also read.
The narrator is an intelligent young woman with a debilitating obsessive mental disorder, but that's not what the story is about.
I really like how John Green dealt with all the issues that came up without succumbing to easy answers and fairy tale endings, but still showed how people can cope.
Here are some elements that might make you want to read this:
- astronomy
- fan fiction
- avant garde art
- billionaire life
- obsessive mental illness
Odo is the seventh son of the village miller and he just wants to get …
A fun light read.
This is a delightfully weird book.
Two features I liked:
1. Such major weird things happened to Henghis Hapthorn before the book started that I kept thinking this must be the second book in the series. But no, this is the first book. We just have to get up to speed.
2. One of the things that happened is that Hapthorn is now living with another complete personality in his head who can share his body. This is something Hapthorn has challenges with, but mostly he just accepts it and makes the best of it. Which really is what many of us would actually do.
I'm delighted to have an author to add to my must-read list.
This is a delightfully weird book.
Two features I liked:
1. Such major weird things happened to Henghis Hapthorn before the book started that I kept thinking this must be the second book in the series. But no, this is the first book. We just have to get up to speed.
2. One of the things that happened is that Hapthorn is now living with another complete personality in his head who can share his body. This is something Hapthorn has challenges with, but mostly he just accepts it and makes the best of it. Which really is what many of us would actually do.
I'm delighted to have an author to add to my must-read list.
This is a delightfully weird book.
Two features I liked:
1. Such major weird things happened to Henghis Hapthorn before the book started that I kept thinking this must be the second book in the series. But no, this is the first book. We just have to get up to speed.
2. One of the things that happened is that Hapthorn is now living with another complete personality in his head who can share his body. This is something Hapthorn has challenges with, but mostly he just accepts it and makes the best of it. Which really is what many of us would actually do.
I'm delighted to have an author to add to my must-read list.
This is a delightfully weird book.
Two features I liked:
1. Such major weird things happened to Henghis Hapthorn before the book started that I kept thinking this must be the second book in the series. But no, this is the first book. We just have to get up to speed.
2. One of the things that happened is that Hapthorn is now living with another complete personality in his head who can share his body. This is something Hapthorn has challenges with, but mostly he just accepts it and makes the best of it. Which really is what many of us would actually do.
I'm delighted to have an author to add to my must-read list.