This Must Be the Place

After reading a series of books that I didn't end up enjoying much, I decided it was time to read something I was sure I would like. Con...

The first relatively new fantasy I have read in what feels like forever. I kept putting it down for some reason, but I finally finished it l...

There is a distinct shortage of famous people in this book. Maybe if you're part of the art world you'll know more of the names (are...

I hate to say this, but I am starting to wonder if Brust is losing his touch. I liked this one a lot better than the previous book ( Jhegaal...

A delightful little dessert of a book, this makes no pretense to being a scientific survey. Instead it muses, in a pleasant, rambling fashio...

I am going to steal an idea from my friend Brian and number the books as I post about them; that should make it easier to keep track of whet...

I will never be able to turn this into a book review blog, because I always feel like I ought to read a book twice before I can properly rev...

Now that I've cooled off a little bit, I am not so annoyed as I was when I first finished reading. There's a lot of great writing in...

One of the things I find interesting about the Culture books (I have now read three, all this year) is their implicit self-criticism. It...

After several weeks of chipping away at it, I finally finished Iain Banks' Matter . I am not sure that I can write a proper review of it...

50 pages in, and I wonder if I'm being too harsh on this book, but... "Eletians?" Call an elf an elf, woman.

Once upon a time, I left for vacations with a big stack of books in my luggage. Eventually, I realized that I never read them, and I stopped...

I started reading TINAG some time last month, read half of it in a day, hit a snag of some sort--possibly involving exhaustion--and set it d...

Work has slowed down some. I have time and mental energy to do other things, and I find myself spending a great deal of time thinking about ...

I am happy to report that the second of the Dresden Files is considerably better than the first. Mainly because, after a few rather painful ...

After finally finishing Storm Front I wanted to keep going, but wasn't ready to face the second in the Dresden series*, so I picked up ...

So about, um, six months ago now one of my co-workers loaned me the first three of the Dresden File books. I just finally got through the fi...

This is the book that I picked up while we were in Providence on Valentine's Day. I hate to leave a used book store without buying somet...

Lately it seems like baking anything other than bread is something I do for company. This is not good for my mental health, or for my baking...

With apologies to the late Mr. Silverstein, but Runny Babbit has to be the most annoying children's book I have yet come across. The co...