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.

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.

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.

2015.Book8 - The Boy Kings (Losse)

OK.

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.

2015.Book5 - See a Little Light (Mould)

Fairly interesting. The early parts were better.

2015.Book4 - Lock In (Scalzi)

Pretty good.

2015.Book3 - Vicious (Schwab)

Kind of underwhelming, maybe I expected too much.

2015.Book2 - Code Name Verity (Wein)

Excellent. Wow, so good.

2015.Book1 - Maelstrom (Watts)

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

2014.Book34 - Stardust (Gaiman)

Good stuff.

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.

2014.Book30 - Wolf in White Van (Darnielle)

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

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.

2014.Book27 - Nobody is Ever Missing (Lacey)

Not sure I quite got it.

2014.Book26 - The Magician's Land (Grossman)

Excellent excellent excellent.

2014.Book25 - The Human Division (Scalzi)

Very good SF

2014.Book24 - Three Parts Dead (Gladstone)

Very good gritty fantasy

2014.Book23 - The Geisters (Nickle)

Pretty good horror with SW Ontario links.

2014.Book22 - Eutopia (Nickle)

Pretty good horror. Kind of Lovecrafty.

2014.Book21 - My Real Children (Walton)

Very good.

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.

2014.Book17 - Prince of Thorns (Lawrence)

Very good. Pretty grim.

2014.Book 16 - California Bones (van Eekhout)

Very good weird stuff.

2014.Book 15 - The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairlyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Valente)

Very good. Pretty weird.

2014.Book14 - Ancillary Justice (Leckie)

Very good. Cool ideas.

2014.Book13 - Severed Streets (Cornell)

Excellent.

2014.Book12 - Steel Seraglio (Carey)

Excellent

2014.Book11 - Goblin Emperor (Addison)

Excellent.

2014.Book10 - Valour and Vanity (Kowal)

Very good.

2014.Book9 - Without a Summer (Kowal)

Very good.

2014.Book 8 - Glamour in Glass (Kowal)

Very good.

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.

2014.Book4 - The Blue Blazes (Wendig)

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

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.

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.

2013.Book39 - The Incrementalists (Brust/White)

Really disappointing. I expected a story about people trying to make the world better, and got fantasy infighting.

2013.Book38 - A Map of Time (Palma)

Good adventure/SF.

2013.Book37 - Sandman Slim (Kadrey)

Pretty good supernatural noir.

2013.Book36 - Starfish (Watts)

Excellent and grim.

2013.Book35 - The Republic of Thieves (Lynch)

Very good, long-awaited.

2013.Book34 - Libriomancer (Hines)

Very good SF/F.

2013.Book33 - A Partial History of Lost Causes (Dubois)

Excellent novel about death.

2013.Book32 - Courting Greta (Hootman)

OK romance? novel.

2013.Book31 - The Stench of Honolulu (Handy)

OK comedy.

2013.Book30 - The Hydrogen Sonata (Banks)

Good hard SF.

2013.Book29 The Shining Girls (Beukes)

Pretty good time-travel thriller.

2013.Book28 - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Jemisin)

Pretty good fantasy.

2013.Book27 - Nietzsche (Kaufmann)

Very interesting philosphical commentary.

2013.Book26 - The Age Atomic (Christopher)

OK. Noir/robots.

2013.Book25 - Shambling Guide (Lafferty)

OK. Fantasy/horror.

2013.Book24 - The Wordy Shipmates (Vowell)

Pretty good religious/american history.

2013.Book23 - Necessary Evil (Tregillis)

Excellent conclusion to the trilogy. Just awesome to re-do the first book through time travel. And the effect on characters, especially Gretel.

2013.Book22 - Influence (Cialdini)

Very good pop psych.

2013.Book21 - Blue Like Jazz (Miller)

Mostly terrible. A little good stuff about love.

2013.Book 20 - Sum (Eagleman)

Very cool inventions on afterlives, with the point being to get us to think about our actual lives.

2013.Book19 - The Power of Why (Lang)

Pretty good self-help/business book. Too much "and this secret is why this company succeeded and this company failed" just-so stories, and kind of a lack of awareness of workers' reality. Like, why should I work hard and be creating to increase corporate profits. On the other hand, the call to curiosity as a path to a happier life is pretty accurate.

2013.Book18 - London Falling (Cornell)

Really excellent fantasy noir police procedural

2013.Book17 - Griftopia (Taibbi)

Excellent political/financial reporting

2013.Book16 - The Sea-Wolf (London)

Very good nautical adventure

2013.Book15 - Fade to Black

Noir Omelas

2013.Book14 - The Born Queen (Keyes)

Pretty good epic fantasy. Doesn't really pay off the promise built up through the series. Maybe I just wasn't paying enough attention?

2013.Book13 - The Blood Knight (Keyes)

more good epic fantasy

2013.Book12 - Bitter Seeds (Tregillis)

Excellent alternate history novel of WWII. Really really good.

2013.Book11 - The Charnel Prince (Keyes)

Very good epic fantasy (second of four)

2013.Book10 - Atheist's Guide to Reality (Rosenberg)

Very good. All bullets crunched between powerful teeth.

2013.Book9 - Racing Through the Dark (Millar)

Pretty good autobiography of a life in pro cycling - doping and then not. Landis' book is worse, Hamilton's is better.

2013.Book8 - The Briar King (Keyes)

Very good epic fantasy.

2013.Book7 - Moneyball (Lewis)

Excellent story of the Oakland A's. "He was right, and the world was wrong"

2013.Book6 - On Religion (Caputo)

Pretty good stuff.

2013.Book5 - The Big Short (Lewis)

Excellent story of the 2008 financial crisis, sub-prime mortgages, bonds, CDOs, and CDSs.

2012.Book4 - Red Seas Under Red Skies (Lynch)

Excellent swashbuckling adventure.

2013.Book3 - Debt (Graeber)

Excellent.

2013.Book2 - Finch (Vandermeer)

Surprisingly good noir-ish fantasy, given my low expectations from his other stuff.

2013.Book1 - Killing Floor (Child)

Good thriller.

2012.Book61 - The Alchemist (Coelho)

Pretty good

2012.Book60 - Of Blood and Honey (Leicht)

Very intense supernatural thriller. The problems of Northern Ireland in the 70s, coupled with being a werewolf.

2012.Book59 - Crazy Love (Chan)

Really weak.

2012.Book58 - Lies of Locke Lamora (Lynch)

Excellent sort-of fantasy.

2012.Book57 - Highly Inappropriate (Coupland)

Pretty funny.

2012.Book56 - Close Enough (Paul)

Quite weak. He's better at despair and misery than attempting hope.

2012.Book55 - Resurrection from the Underground (Girard)

Excellent literary/philosophical. Desacralizing the father.

2012.Book54 - From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (Faust)

Excellent superhero (parody?) self-help.

2012.Book53 - Just Ride (Petersen)

Very good bike book.

2012.Book52 - Zero History (Gibson)

Pretty good fashion espionage. It's a sub-plot to a larger book. Not sure if it's great or kind of a farce.