Review: The Gum Thief, Douglas Coupland
Originally, when I still toyed with the sane thought of having a running theme for my blog, I thought about doing book reviews. Then I discovered the AV Club and promptly felt wholly inadequate.(Also,...
View ArticleReview: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
This is the other review I had written for the first incarnation of this blog, when I still naively thought I could read and review at least one book per week. Ha!This was written about a year and a...
View ArticleReview: I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
I started writing this review about seven weeks ago. It seems silly that it’s sat in my drafts pile for so long, so here it is.Title: I Capture The Castle Author: Dodie Smith Year Published: 1949...
View ArticleReview: Song in the Silence, Elizabeth Kerner
Title: Song in the Silence Author: Elizabeth Kerner Year Published: 1997 Genre: Fantasy, romance Serialization: First of trilogy, can be read alone Rating: 5/10 Premise: Lanen Kaelar has dreamt of...
View ArticleReview: The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss
Title: The Name of the Wind Author: Patrick Rothfuss Year Published: 2007 Genre: Fantasy Serialization: First of trilogy, cuts off pretty arbitrarily Rating: 6/10 Premise: Kvothe Kingkiller has done...
View ArticleReview: The Darling Budds, Johnny Dale
It’s been over two months since a book review, and now’s as good a time as any to talk about The Darling Budds, by Johnny Dale. This is going to be a little unorthodox, because it’s an ongoing...
View ArticleReview: The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Title: The Hunger Games Author: Suzanne Collins Year Published: 2008 Genre: Young Adult novel Serialization: First of trilogy Rating: 6/10 Premise: Following a failed uprising by the twelve districts,...
View ArticleFifteen book reviews and an excuse
Procrastination, as they say, is a bitch.As anyone who has done any sort of creative work knows, inspiration tends to strike you when you’re in the worst position to be able to take advantage of it....
View ArticleMy sister is smarter than you
My sister read The Last Battle recently, book 7 in C. S. Lewis’ beloved Narnia books, infamous for its unveiled religious proselytizing. While the parallels between Aslan and Jesus had always been...
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