The Old Woman in the Young Woman, by Gene Wolfe. Illustrated by Emily Tolson (scroll link to bottom of page).
Short Review:
The kind of story that sticks in your brain, and maybe you find yourself mentioning to a friend or coworker. Has a few small kinks in the plot which I go into below, but it’s […]
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Baen Review: All the Things You Are, by Mike Resnick
Published by June 20th, 2007 in The Bookshelf. 0 CommentsAll the Things You Are, by Mike Resnick. Illustrated by Pamelina H.
Short Review:
I’d recomend this story to someone interested in a light, easy read, that will still take the brain out for a thought exploration. Each step of the story is fairly predictable, but is written in an entertaining style.
Long Reveiw: (no really blatant spoilers, but read at […]
Baen’s Universe Review
Published by June 20th, 2007 in The Bookshelf and Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers. 0 CommentsI’ve been interested in Baen’s Universe for awhile, so I jumped at the chance to get a free copy of V1 #3 in exchange for a reveiw and a link. Once I downloaded the pdf, I realized that the 163 pages of content was more than I could read in a sitting or two. So I’ve decided to […]
An arthurian urban fantasy by Peter David, Knight Life is about the return of King Arthur to modern day New York, and his subsequent political campaign for the mayorship.
I wouldn’t say it was a can’t-put-it-down read, but once I set it down I was sure to look around and find I’d picked it up again. The politcal […]
I owe this book my sanity.
Not only in the here and now, for giving me something real and funny to keep me going through my math class, but also for saving me from the wonderful world of worm pee, hand-pollination, and all-out war with the local flora and fuana.
Which is to say, I have seen […]
Mystery Man
Published by January 10th, 2007 in Uncategorized, Home in the Rookery and The Bookshelf. 0 CommentsI’ve discovered a new love.
No, not that kind!
The mystery genre caught my attention for a few years in my tweens but I have’t visited it since. Then over the holidays I was desperate for a book and feeling like something different, so when I dug through my book stack and found Dead Cert, a novel by […]
This is the first novel in C.S. Lewis’s science fiction space trilogy. The book takes place mostly on Malacandra (Mars), and tells the story of kidnapped earthman Elwin Ransom as he mingles with the natives and deals with the antagonists, Dr. Weston and his associate Devine.
The series explains through myth the Christian doctrine of temptation and the fall […]
78 Reasons You Won’t Be Published, 14 Reasons You Might
Published by October 24th, 2006 in Writing and The Bookshelf. 2 CommentsI paraphrased the title, but that’s the rough idea. It’s a self-help book for wannabe authors by Pat Walsh, and arguably the best of its kind. I’m recommend this as a great gift to give or get this holiday season.
Reasons I’m raving:
It combines two very important elements. First, the advice is concise and generally dead on. I’m not (yet!) a […]
C.S. Lewis has the tongue of an angel, albeit a demonic one, in his affectionately signed Screwtape Letters. The book is written entirely as letters from a doting uncle to his junior tempter nephew, Wormwood, who is out in the world on his first assignment. It is Wormwood’s goal to tempt his patient into paths of sin and worldliness, and his dear old […]
