by Gene Roddenberry My self-imposed challenge for Cannonball Read VI is to read all the Star Trek original novels from the first one ever published (in 1970) to the most current. Realizing this is likely to take years (and several Cannonball Reads!), I set up some parameters for myself: only original, full-length novels licensed and published by a professional publishing house. No short-story collections, no manuals, no novelizations. I only want to consider original works by professional writers. Which brings us to “Star Trek: The […]
A Splendid Time Travel Tale (Or, Connie Willis Deserves All of Her Awards)
Kivrin, a historian and student at Oxford in 2054, plans a trip to the Middle Ages using the well-established technology of “the net.” She must do extensive research in order to blend in with the locals. The history department’s technicians must perform complex calculations to get her to the right location. Her instructors carefully set up a rendezvous to bring her back. No one has ever traveled to the fourteenth century before. Kivrin’s favorite professor, Mr. Dunworthy, is deeply worried for her. However, Kivrin has […]
Go ahead, judge a book by its cover.
When my fiance started reading for pleasure again, but before he focused on hard sci-fi, he picked books on how attractive he found the cover art. And here’s the link to my review.
More love and hate and chocolate in the City of Lights
Sarah Lin hates Patrick Chevalier. She hates his golden good looks, his charming manner, the way he seems to be able to create magic with his bare hands and does absolutely everything flawlessly, without seeming to expend even the slightest bit of effort. She hates him because every time he brushes past her, or winks at her, or jokingly flirts with her, her heart beats faster and she has trouble breathing. He is her boss, and he is godlike, and he would never even look […]
Love and hate and chocolate in the City of Lights
3.5 stars Disclaimer! I was granted an ARC of this book by Kensington Books via Netgalley in return for a fair and honest review. Summer Corey hates Paris. It’s a city where she was frequently abandoned to be raised by ever changing nannies while her parents were globe trotting or negotiating international business deals, and it’s where she felt miserable, alone and outcast in boarding school from the age of thirteen. Having been forced back from her self-imposed exile, teaching on a small Pacific island, because her […]
There’s a big ol’ angel war brewing in New York
This is book 6 in the series, and as such, not the best place to start reading. If you’re really interested in the series, start at the beginning with Angels’ Blood. During a terrifying five minute time period, birds and angels start plummeting from the sky, leaving almost half of the archangel Raphael’s forces incapacitated. Shortly after, his consort, the Guild Hunter Elena, discovers a mysterious and highly infectious disease that impossibly enough only targets vampires. All over the world, other archangels are developing new and […]
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