I read The Sparrow last year and was absolutely gutted by the story of Father Emilio Sandoz and the crew of the first mission to Rakhat. Having decided to work my way through Mary Doria Russell’s works, I knew that I would eventually read its sequel, Children of God. However, I knew very little about it, other than that it continued Emilio’s story. Bonnie also read The Sparrow for Cannonball Read 7, and we had talked about reading Children of Men together this year. In […]
The final book in the Omega Days series
OK, so this is totally not the final book in the Omega Days series. Which is really a good thing. I like the characters, I like the story, and I like the world that they’re living in. For some reason I thought that this book (book 4) was the end of the line. As I was reading it, I kept saying “How are they going to tie up all of these loose ends, there are only 100 pages left?”. And then there would be 60 […]
“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug.”
I am so behind on my reviews! I’m going to try to post the 7 (!!) that I owe at some point today — wish me luck! Starting with Redshirts: A Novel with 3 Codas. 5 stars for the novel itself. About 1.5 stars for the totally unnecessary codas. “God is a hack,” he said. “He’s a writer on an awful science fiction television show, and He can’t plot His way out of a box. How do you have faith when you know that?” Set in […]
Terrible half-baked review of a really good book.
I think I’ve really done this book an injustice by waiting so long to review it. (Thanks a lot, Mansfield Park!) I remember being ridiculously entertained by it, and reading it at a pretty fast pace, even for me. But I’ve forgotten most of why I found it so entertaining in the two and a half months since finishing it. This is one of those sci-fi books just waiting to break into the mainstream, because it’s written in a way that will appeal to people who […]
Maybe she’s not the best role model
Yeah, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve read all fourTwilight books by Stephenie Meyer. I was curious what all the fuss was about–both positive and negative–and they were easy to read. The Host (2008), on the other hand, was a selection by my book club. It wasn’t something I would have chosen to read on my own, but I was also curious to see Meyer’s take on science fiction. ***Beware of spoilers ahead. I believe that anyone who was actually interested in this book must have […]
I am time-lagged, but this is a great book
To Say Nothing of the Dog was delightful, especially reading it so quickly after the extended bleakness of Doomsday Book. I liked the latter, but To Say Nothing of the Dog had humor, levity, and, importantly, seemed much more edited. The story follows Ned Henry, a future historian who, along with the entire time travel research group at Oxford, has been enlisted by a demanding, omnipresent, and stubborn benefactor to rebuild the previously destroyed Coventry Cathedral in Oxford. Why, you ask? Well, her great-great-great grandmother […]
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