Wednesday, December 30, 2015

2015.Book54 - Started Early, Took my Dog (Atkinson)

Very good conclusion to Jackson Brodie series

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Thursday, December 17, 2015

2015.Book50 - The Aeronaut's Windlass (Butcher)

Excellent. Really great swashbuckling adventure. Totally fun.

Friday, December 11, 2015

Thursday, December 03, 2015

2015.Book48 - Wake of Vultures (Bowen)

Very good. Cliffhanger ending though.

2015.Book47 - The Familiar I (Danielewski)

Lots of style, little substance.

Monday, November 16, 2015

2015.Book46 - Illuminae (Kaufmann, Kristof)

Pretty good. The typographical innovations don't add anything, but it's a good story. Maybe if you love comics and novels scare you this would be non-threatening?

2015.Book45 - The Only Average Guy (Filion)

Very interesting inside story of council during Ford. Filion takes some flak for being too sympathetic. And it's true that being Rob Ford is not the worst thing to be; you could have a bad family and bad brain chemistry like him, and also be poor. But it's still pretty bad to be him.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

2015.Book44 - Number 9 Dream

Some really good stuff, some just weird.

2015.Book43 - Sons and Mothers (Loewen)

Very interesting book of stories of sons of Mennonite mothers. Good stuff about growing up and sometimes out of that culture

Friday, November 06, 2015

2015.Book42 - Smekday (Rex)

Pretty good. Movie loosely based.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Monday, September 28, 2015

2015.Book38 - Dune (Herbert)

Pretty bad. Some cool ideas, but badly written.

2015.Book37 - The End of All Things (Scalzi)

Very good. Standard Scalzi.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

2015.Book34 - The Power of the Dog (Winslow)

Excellent. Really great.

2015.Book33 - The Devil You Know (Carey)

Very good. A bit slow to start, but the last half's great.

Sunday, August 09, 2015

2015.Book32 - Dark Orbit (Gilman)

Excellent. SF about phenomenology.

Friday, July 31, 2015

Friday, July 24, 2015

Sunday, July 19, 2015

Friday, June 26, 2015

2015.Book25 - The Vorrh (Catling)

Excellent. The Chess Garden's evil twin.

Monday, June 15, 2015

2015.Book24 - The Martian (Weir)

Nice. Will be interesting to see how this translates to the screen. Lots of internal action.

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Wednesday, June 03, 2015

2015.Book22 - Authority (Vandermeer)

Just OK. A little boring. Some cool things near the end.

2015.Book21 - Of Noble Family (Kowal)

Good stuff.

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Saturday, April 11, 2015

Saturday, March 28, 2015

2015.Book14 - The Peripheral (Gibson)

Really high-quality stuff. Just great.

2015.Book 13 - The Maze Runner (Dashnell)

Definitely a page-turner.

2015.Book12 - Gods of the Hammer (Pevere)

Teenage Head bio. Interesting that something that means so much to people sounds just kind of OK now.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

2015.Book11 - The Lives of Tao (Chu)

Pretty good. Cool concept, good action. Needed some editing.

2015.Book10 - Behemoth: Seppuku (Watts)

Pretty good conclusion. The torture is a big problem for me.

Thursday, February 05, 2015

2015.Book9 - Behemoth: Beta-Max (Watts)

Pretty good. I think the underwater stuff in this series just doesn't appeal to me. Liked Maelstrom better than Starfish. We'll see what the Behemoth: Seppuku has in store.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Saturday, January 24, 2015

2015.Book7 - John Dies at the End (Wong)

Pretty good. Last quarter is the best.

2015.Book6 - Methland (Reding)

Kind of superficial, not well-written. Some interesting parts.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

2015.Book5 - See a Little Light (Mould)

Fairly interesting. The early parts were better.

2015.Book4 - Lock In (Scalzi)

Pretty good.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

2015.Book3 - Vicious (Schwab)

Kind of underwhelming, maybe I expected too much.

2015.Book2 - Code Name Verity (Wein)

Excellent. Wow, so good.

Tuesday, January 06, 2015

2015.Book1 - Maelstrom (Watts)

Wow, so excellent. How is he not more famous? Grim, all bullets bitten dystopia.

2014.Book34 - Stardust (Gaiman)

Good stuff.