I don’t think Lois McMaster Bujold has released a full-length novel since 2016’s Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, which I sort of read as a capstone to the Vorkosigan series. Since then, she seems to have been spending her time experimenting with self-publishing novellas. While I’ve found those to be mostly very good, they’ve all been set in the World of the Five Gods. So I’m really pleasantly surprised to see that she’s decided to duck back into the Vorkosigan universe after all! The […]
Episode 1-19: Going Insane, Got No Brain
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/05/14/episode-1-19-going-insane-got-no-brain/ Wherein I review: 67. The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan 68. Deranged: The Shocking True Store of America’s Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter 69. Lies, Damned Lies, and History (St. Mary’s Chronicles #7) by Jodi Taylor 70. Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive #3) by Brandon Sanderson 71. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh Lots of crazies up in this piece. Apollo finds his third Emperor. Harold Schechter scribbles about Albert Fish. Jodi Taylor soldiers on through the time travel. […]
“Crime is common. Logic is rare.”
“Draw your chair up, and hand me my violin, for the only problem which we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings.” This was a fun book to dip in and out of all month. I’m glad I did it the way I did. I think otherwise it might have been easy to grow tired of Holmes and his Watson. The stories are short and a bit slight, so they make excellent little auditory treats every couple of days […]
Don’t pick up that bad penny, it could ruin your life
I picked up this collection of short stories because Seanan McGuire had a story in it. Specifically one from her Sparrow Hill Road series, which is connected to the InCryptid series. And since I will read just about everything she puts out into the universe, I picked it up. I wasn’t disappointed by her story, it was fabulous. The rest were, meh, ok. I found this to be a middling collection of short stories, but I’ll be honest it was the framing device that really […]
Episode 1-16: All Roads Lead to Rat
https://killingmykindle.com/2018/04/23/episode-1-16-all-roads-lead-to-rat/ Wherein I review: 53. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns (Stainless Steel Rat #11) by Harry Harrison 54. A Trail Through Time (St. Mary’s Chronicles #4) by Jodi Taylor 55. The Woman in the Woods (Charlie Parker #16) by John Connolly 56. Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive #2) by Brandon Sanderson 57. Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) by Charlaine Harris 58. Stainless Steel Visions (Stainless Steel Rat #12) by Harry Harrison For the love of God, I finally finished the f–king Stainless Steel Rat series. […]
still in the mood for thrillers
Still in the mood for thrillers. Here are some recent reads: And Then There Were None, 1939, by Agatha Christie This one is unlikely to be reimagined by Kenneth Branagh, but you never know. And Then There Were None is one of Christie’s grimmest, and most famous tales. Due to its original title, it is also one of her most controversial. Christie loved to use nursery rhyme references in her book titles, and this book actually incorporates an entire rhyme in the book as a twisted […]
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