Whew…just two minutes ago, I finally read the last page of Shadowplay. I’ve been reading this book for several months now…I don’t remember the exact date when I started it. All I know is that it’s a looooooooong book, and darn it, if it wasn’t so interesting, I would’ve put it down a long time [...]
Archive for the ‘Book Review’ Category
30 Oct
Book Review: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
This is the first time I’m reviewing a book after I met its author. In this case, I met Rothfuss at this year’s past Oddcon. It’s one thing to read a book, review it, and not meet the author until several years down the line, if ever. It’s another thing to meet someone, learn they [...]
20 Sep
Book Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Beer & Marmalade Book of the Month
This past month, I’ve been watching the entire series of the revisioned Battlestar Galactica. It’s an awesome show, and I highly encourage people to watch it, even though there’s not an ounce of optimistic sunshine in it.
Believe it or not, Battlestar Galactica has a lot in common [...]
5 Sep
Book Review: Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
I am growing to become a huge fan of Kelly Link. When I first read her story “Lull” in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #16, it prompted me to send her an email, begging her how exactly she came up with her weird, surrealistic ideas to have a palindromic story that consisted of a [...]
25 Aug
Book Review: "The Handmaid’s Tale" by Margaret Atwood
When I was a kid, I watched The Handmaid’s Tale on cable television. You know, the one with Natasha Richardson. I thought it was a cool movie. A bit on the strange side, but cool nonetheless.
Flash forward to a couple of Monday’s ago. I’m at our book club and we just finished reading the book. [...]
12 Jul
Book Reviews: Various
I have a bunch of books piling up that I need to do reviews for, so I’m just going to do them all in one fell swoop.
Year’s Best Fantasy 7
Now that The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror is defunct, I have to look for a new anthology. At the library, I saw Year’s Best [...]
7 Jun
Book Review: "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini
Sighhhhh….
Not an encouraging way to start off a review, is it?
I fought real hard not to read this book. In fact, when I borrowed a copy of it, it sat on my bookshelf for months, then materialized to my nightstand, then migrated back to my bookshelf. I read the first two pages. Put it [...]
4 May
Book Review: The Shack by William P. Young
So how am I supposed to review "The Shack"? As a Christian? As a black woman? As a writer? All three? I know reviews for the book are wide and varied, like "This is the best book ever! It goes right up there with Pilgrim Progess!" and "This is the worst book ever! It clearly [...]
9 Apr
Book Review: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
I made the decision to start reading more scifi/fantasy books by people of color (i.e. black people) about a week before I learned anything about RaceFail. In February’s issue of Ebony Magazine, they listed some books to read. I usually skip over it their selections, since they usually have romance and/or memories–stuff I’m not interested [...]
9 Feb
Book Review: Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
The Wiscon book club I attend nowadays is called “Beer and Marmalade” (if you want to hear a little more about it, a couple of members were on WORT Wisconsin radio. Just scroll down to "Radio Literature" that played on January 8, 2009), and we’ve been reading some good stuff. In January, we chose “Set [...]
