Okay, so it’s been two months since I finished this book, but I remember so clearly the feeling of finishing it and sort of being gobsmacked at how good it was. Not that it’s flashy or anything. I’m not going to claim this book will change your life, or even change the way you look at reading or anything hyperbolic like that, but it did kind of change the way I look at Star Wars books. Claudia Gray just GETS Star Wars. I read her first […]
For me, this book was just okay, which isn’t okay!!!
I don’t know, guys, this book just wasn’t for me. I don’t understand why the universe is doing this to me! It’s getting such good reviews, like glowing reviews, and really the sum total of my feelings can be described with a single syllable. (It’s “meh,” if you’re curious.) And it had such promise! Who doesn’t want to read about a mysterious fungus that makes people develop pretty black designs on their bodies that look like dragon scales, and then burst into flames? And a […]
That time Neal Stephenson murdered the planet.
No matter what you end up thinking of this book after you’re done, I think anyone who’s read it can agree that doing so is a capital ‘E’ Experience. I’ve only read one Neal Stephenson book before (Snow Crash) and I did NOT like it. So that, combined with the fact that this book both features the end of the world (which I try to avoid because it makes me a-scared) and an 800 plus page count. Surprisingly . . . I didn’t hate it. But there […]
Space! Romance! Murder!
In the Black is the Vaginal Fantasy Pick for August, and as I didn’t read the last two month’s picks and I’ve been missing my local group’s meetings I thought I really needed to pick this one up. Fortunately it’s pretty cheap on kindle, so it wasn’t too much of a bother. This is doubly fortunate because yet again, we’ve got a Vaginal Fantasy pick that has me screaming whyyyyyyyyyy? Not my fave, is what I’m saying. The book starts out well enough, our heroine Sam […]
A Paper Heart
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Ken Liu. I highly, HIGHLY enjoyed this book and even the stories that were less successful were still really enjoyable. There are 15 stories in this collection, and there was only one that I didn’t really enjoy. That’s a pretty astonishing for a collection of short stories. But most successfully, this has made me extremely excited for Liu’s novel The Grace of Kings. I’m having a hard time picking out a favorite […]
Halo 2 + Interstellar + Job = Children of God
Like faintingviolet, I just finished Children of God, the followup to Mary Doria Russell’s much acclaimed The Sparrow. You can’t talk about Children without talking about the first book. Russell is a paleoanthropologist. Her unique mix of professional training, Judaism, and Christianity led to an impressive work of theology and science fiction in The Sparrow. The novel chronicles an ill-fated trip by Jesuit priests and professionals to a distant planet called Rakhat. Russell herself, who has been a person of faith and an atheist, said the theme of the first book was an […]
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