Saturday, December 20, 2014

2014.Book33 - Full Fathom Five (Gladstone)

OK, so Gladstone's just awesome all over the place. Nice tie-ins to the first two, too.

2014.Book32 - Sex Criminals (Fraction/Zdarsky)

Again, I'm not a big comic person, but this one had a lot of great reviews, and Steve Murray's pretty cool, so I tried it. Very very good. Brimping, indeed.

2014.Book31 - White Teeth (Smith)

Very good. I don't usually read these modern literary novels, but this one was enjoyable. Heard some comparisons to DFW, which is ridiculous, but I liked it.

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

2014.Book30 - Wolf in White Van (Darnielle)

Pretty good stuff. Probably missed a lot of what was going on.

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

2014.Book 29 - Jack Glass (Roberts)

Finally a good book by Adam Roberts. Very cool.

2014.Book 28 - Burning Paradise (Wilson)

Pretty good. I think I loved Julian Comstock so much that anything else Wilson does suffers by comparison.

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Friday, October 10, 2014

2014.Book23 - The Geisters (Nickle)

Pretty good horror with SW Ontario links.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Thursday, September 18, 2014

2014.Book20 - Echopraxia (Watts)

Excellent. Some scenes recapitulate Blindsight too much for me (trapped! In a spaceship! with a vampire!)

2014.Book19 - Emperor of Thorns (Lawrence)

Very good. More of the same.

2014.Book18 - King of Thorns (Lawrence)

Very good. More of the same.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

2014.Book7 - A Dog's Heart (Bulgakov)

Kind of goofy weirdness. Probably makes more sense in its context.

2014.Book6 - Territory (Bull)

Very good, weird, western.

2014.Book5 - Cartwheel (DuBois)

Very good. Felt like the plot was getting in the way of the characters. Excellent characters.

Monday, February 10, 2014

2014.Book4 - The Blue Blazes (Wendig)

Very good paranormal noir. Lots of violence and bad language.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

2014.Book3 - The Girl With All the Gifts (Carey)

Off-the-charts awesome. Intense, emotional, page-turning.

2014.Book2 - Something More Than Night (Tregillis)

Very good. Noir supernatural SF. Very cool.

2014.Book1 - Map of the Sky (Palma)

Excellent stuff. Even better than the first book.

Friday, January 03, 2014

2013.Book42 - Best of Gene Wolfe (Wolfe)

Good short stories.

2013.Book41 - Shades of Milk and Honey (Robinette Kowal)

Very good, Austen plus magic.

2013.Book40 - Lucky Jim (Amis)

Wow, this is really good. Jim's very unlikeable to begin with, but by the end he won me over.