Thursday, October 29, 2020

Friday, October 16, 2020

Friday, October 09, 2020

Thursday, October 08, 2020

Thursday, September 03, 2020

2020.Book27 - Caste (Wilkerson)

 Excellent. Race is the skin, caste is the bones.

2020.Book26 - The Angel of the Crows (Addison)

 Very good. Not the non-stop fun times of Goblin Emperor; Doyle has more problems.

Friday, July 24, 2020

2020.Book23 - Order of the Pure Moon ... (Cho)

Pretty good. Cho will have my eternal respect for that "smoke curling from her jaws" in Sorceror to the Crown.

Monday, July 20, 2020

2020.Book22 - Wolf Hall (Mantel)

Excellent historical novel.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

2020.Book21 - The Red Threads of Fortune (Yang)

OK. Takes the epic out of epic fantasy. Gender world-building unconvincing (we didn't have it, so we invented it?), grammar is awkward, but that's not a deal-breaker.

2020.Book20 - The Skin We're In (Cole)

Excellent review of 2017.

Monday, June 08, 2020

2020.Book19 - LETTERS (Barth)

Like wading through waist-deep water. The exertion is pleasurable if you don't need to get anywhere.

Monday, June 01, 2020

2020.Book18 - The Last Emperox (Scalzi)

Good. Entertaining. Felt like floating along the top.

Saturday, May 09, 2020

2020.Book17 - Listen, Liberal (Frank)

Excellent but, sadly, obsolete.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

2020.Book15 - Giles Goat-Boy (Barth)

Disappointing. Racism doesn't age well, and neither do the jokes (except the Beists "go limp!"). Felt like a slog after about the first third.

Friday, April 17, 2020

2020.Book14 - Agency (Gibson)

Excellent near-past thriller. Gibson has such good style, love it.

Tuesday, April 07, 2020