Book 21 – Tess of the D’Urbervilles
I finished Tess of the D’Urbervilles several weeks ago and have been thrashing around since then trying to start something else. I’ve started several books – Barchester Towers, The Bourne Identity, The...
View ArticleBook 22: Warriors: Into The Wild
Z has been bugging me for some time to read Warriors: Into The Wild, and I have been avoiding it because I rather assumed it was rubbish. Or, at best, that it was aimed squarely at 10-year-old boys,...
View ArticleBook 23 and 24: Uglies and Pretties
S has had these books for a while, and hasn’t gotten around to reading them. I’d seen some good reviews, but had largely delegated them to the “books for teenage girls” category. We audio books for S...
View ArticleBook 25: Men At Arms
We recently finished reading Men At Arms, which is the 15th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett. The books in this series vary in quality, and this is one of the best yet. The characters in this book...
View ArticleBook 26 – Atonement
This one has been on my list for quite some time – Atonement, by Ian Mcewan. I loved it, although it took some perseverance to get to that point. The first third of the book reads like Jane Austen...
View ArticleTwilight
Yes, I read Twilight. I wanted to be informed before dismissing it as teenage-girl boyfriend/girlfriend tripe masquerading as a vampire novel. So, now that I’ve read it – it is indeed heavy on the...
View ArticleWool
As you may know, I participate in a project called SFShorts where we write Sci Fi in 140 characters or less. It’s a lot of fun. A few weeks ago, a new member was added to our team, one Hugh Howey, who...
View ArticleHothouse, by Brian Aldiss
I’ve been working through a list of SciFi/Fantasy books, which is a merging of three “top 50” lists that I’ve found over the years. I just finished reading Hothouse, by Brian Aldiss. It was … weird,...
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Wizard, by John Varley
In my continuing saga of the list of Sci Fi books that I’m working through … I went back and read ‘Titan’, and then read ‘Wizard‘, by John Varley. I am now reading ‘Demon’, because I’m a glutton for...
View ArticleThe kind hand of The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
I’m on a Charles Dickens mailing list. Have been for 15 years or more. A noted Dickens scholar, who performs Dickens all year, and does A Christmas Carol several dozen times a year, asked this: After...
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