Recommended Reading: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark
Loved this mystery/thriller from P. Djèlí Clark – much like Martha Wells’ Murderbot, novellas in this series have been moving through the Tor.com ecosystem over the last few years, and I was delighted...
View ArticleThe Watch, WandaVision, and unhelpful marketing
This month, two new shows started up – The Watch & WandaVision. Probably other shows, too, but these are standing out to me at the moment as failures in marketing. Both were shows I was initially...
View ArticleRhythm of War & The Expanse s05e1-3
This past week I made a big push to finish Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, partly because I’m behind on reading fall releases (and my tbr pile generally) and partly because it’s my favorite of The...
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Status 2020-07-16: Reading Come Tumbling Down over lunch
Screengrab from Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire – I’m rather late to this one, but it is very good.
View ArticleAliens: Phalanx by Scott Sigler
If you like the Alien franchise, or sci-fi horror, this is a great read. Great protagonist & pacing, and information comes at just the right pace (without bogging down in exposition to answer...
View Article“Lesbian necromancers… in space” -Charles Stross
[I received an advance reader copy of Gideon the Ninth from the publisher at ALA Annual 2019] I’d been hearing great things about Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir from most of the authors I follow for...
View ArticleTuesday Reads for 2019-08-13
I finished Magic for Liars (by Sarah Gailey) Saturday night. Very good mystery story; I didn’t always follow the narrator’s emotional shifts but I that’s just my neurology. Recommended. Then last...
View ArticleTuesday Reads for 2019-08-07 (which is a Wednesday)
Gonna try to restart these, now that I’ve made it through summer travel season. After finishing my reading from the Hugos voters packet, I finally started Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey after...
View ArticleTuesday Reads – 2019-04-23
I finally started Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey – A’s been after me to read it for a couple weeks so that we can yell about it together. This series has been a trip, and the escalation as it nears...
View ArticleHugo Nominees 2019
Hugo nominations close this week, so I thought I’d share what I nominated this year. This is absolutely not a slate; nominate what you like. This is a list of things I liked from 2018, and I think...
View ArticleI saw Rogue One about halfway through reading Kameron Hurley’s Rapture…
…which changed my perspective on the second half of the book. As fun as R1 was, it doesn’t hold a candle to Rapture. The male cast of R1 could have played the men in Rapture, but Hurley’s cast actually...
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Book Review: Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal
Review based on an advance reader copy provided by the publisher at BEA 2016. A great read – MRK takes her strength at character and relationships and applies it well to World War I. Where before she...
View ArticleMike Reads Wheel Of Time: The Great Hunt
The Text: I remember liking this book more when I read it the first time in high school. Wheel of Time was the second epic fantasy series I’d read (after Lord of the Rings), and I’m starting to wonder...
View ArticleMike Reads Wheel of Time: Eye of the World
I read a few (6 or 7?) of the Wheel of Time books in high school and college, but dropped off when the books got longer and the pace slowed down (seems like many readers did around that point). Ever...
View ArticleBook Review: The Grace Of Kings by Ken Liu
“Sometimes it was hard to tell where the performance ended and the real self began – but what was this ‘real’ self other than a set of performances?” This book was very different narratively from most...
View ArticleBook Review: Nexus by Ramez Naam
I’ve been trying to think how to describe this book. “Ghost in the Shell.” “Charles Stross meets Quentin Tarantino.” “Neal Stephenson but under 500 pages.” It’s really fucking good, you guys.
View ArticleReview: The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
HOLY SHIT you guys This was amazing. Pratchett wrote an action thriller that critiques the tropes of action thrillers RIGHT THERE IN THE TEXT. Discworld’s own John McClane says RIGHT THERE that the...
View ArticleReview: Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
For some reason I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this one as much – probably because it was one of the few Discworld books I *hadn’t* heard people rave about, and because the market is rather glutted with...
View ArticleReview: Jingo by Terry Pratchett
It took me a little longer to get into this one than previous Discworld books. But once I did, it was as clever and hard to put down as the rest. I like that (like with feminism/gender relations in...
View ArticleReview: Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
It’s a Discworld book, so just take as a given that I loved the pacing and converging plot lines and puns and characters (and since it’s a Guards book, also the crime thriller elements that creep in...
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