Category Archives: books

There’s a meme going around to list your first order from Amazon. Mine was in AUgust of 1998, and included The House of Arden and its parallel story Harding’s Luck (glad I bought those while both were in print), by … Continue reading →

Reading two historical fantasy novels at once, that’s what. At least not when one gets everything so perfectly right that you’re left wondering if maybe there is a bit more than moving airmasses behind the storm that sank the Spanish … Continue reading →

There are lots of reasons not to buy an e-book. The foremost one is that you’re not much of a reader – if you aren’t, then it’s no more than a brick, a money-costing device you won’t use. Price isn’t … Continue reading →

Someone on my reading list was just discussing Soulless, by Gail Carriger. They liked it a lot. I have to say that I’m only about a tenth of the way through, but my emotions are mixed: I like the characters, … Continue reading →

I do not think Terry Pratchett has a good handle on what his Alzheimers disease will do next. The reason I say that is because of the remarkable balance he’s struck here: if we never get another Tiffany Aching book … Continue reading →

1. I would have gotten around to reading Sarah Addison Allen’s Garden Spells a lot sooner if I’d known how strongly it would remind me of Mockingbird. No, not Mockingjay, Mockingbird, the one by Sean Stewart. Only it’s a bit … Continue reading →