Book Review: Gemina (Illuminae Files 2)
by Like the first book in the series, I went for the audio version again, and for the same reason. The epistolary format of the book (most of the storytelling i...
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Book Review: The Red Knight
by So, I know I’m going against the overall grain on this one, but this was only okay. An alternate medieval Europe with an intrusive “wild” and variants on a l...
Book Review: Star Trek Movie Memories
by Having read Star Trek Memories, I almost immediately moved to its sequel, published the following year, which I suddenly realized was more than twenty years ...
Book Review: The Shepherd’s Crown
by The last Discworld novel and the first of the Tiffany Aching stories I truly loved. The previous ones were fun in their way, progressing from a decent read t...
Book Review: Homo Deus
by I read Mr. Harari’s previous book, Sapiens, a couple of years ago. In spite of the title similarity, this is not the same kind of book, except where it is. T...
Book Review: Shadow of the Torturer
by I tried to read this book in 2014 and hated it. In fact, this was one of the first one-star reviews I ever gave, deciding that a DNF doesn’t rate more from m...
Book Review: The Aleph and Other Stories
by This is a strange collection of strange stories. Before now, I wasn’t familiar with Mr. Borges’ work, and I’m still not sure I am, especially since he appear...
Book Review: The Fountains of Paradise
by Part of my quest to read all of the Hugo and Nebula novel winners. This book won both in 1980. This is probably what Robert Heinlein would have classed as a ...
Book Review: Gloriana
by Part of my quest to read all of the World Fantasy Award novel winners. This book won in 1979. This book starts out so description laden it’s hard to stay awa...
Book Review: Dreamsnake
by Part of my quest to read all of the Hugo and Nebula novel winners. This book won both in 1979. So I’m pretty tired of the whole post-nuclear holocaust theme....