Category Archives: books

… if you either can’t get hold of Among Others yet, or if you’ve cruised through it at Mori speed and are feeling bereft. Or if your book is at home and you aren’t. Natalie Luhrs’ excellent interview with Jo … Continue reading →

Jo Walton’s Among Others is out today in both e-book and hardback and having pre-ordered the Kindle version, I couldn’t resist – I sucked it only my iPhone and took a look around in it. Having looked in it, I … Continue reading →

You won’t see me signing up for 50 Books or any other reading challenges this year – or any other year either. This is why: since it’s still early in the year I was able to take a reasonably accurate … Continue reading →

The following is something I wrote back in August of 2006. I don’t know whether I ever posted it here (or rather, in the predecessor to this site), but the archive it’s in is being taken down, so I’ll put … Continue reading →

A friend of mine has been writing about Connie Willis’ Blackout and All Clear (not linking because it’s a semiprivate diary). It’s a beautiful exploration of what she loves about the books, and it’s convinced me to read them. (There … Continue reading →

Last weekend, I finally read Patricia Wrede’s controversial book Thirteenth Child, which drew a lot of ire when it first came out for quite literally erasing American Indians from the North American landscape. The premise of the book is that … Continue reading →

Coolest wedding idea ever, from a commenter to Neil Gaiman. SHort version in case you don’t want to click: when she and her husband merged their libraries, they had duplicates of all the books they both loved – so they … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished Sherwood Smith’s Coronets and Steel. The first thing I have to say is thank goodness there’s a sequel planned or I’d be quite annoyed; it ends on a cliffhanger, one that is both hopeful and worrying – … Continue reading →