Category Archives: books

If there’s anyone reading this who knows their Dickens very well, I need a recommendation: if I loved David Copperfield what other Dickens should I read? The only other thing of his that I’ve read through is A Christmas Carol. … Continue reading →

Here’s where I make a confession: I never read either Fahrenheit 451 or The Martian Chronicles. For that matter, I still haven’t read the Foundation books, or Childhood’s End or any number of other classics of the literature of ideas. … Continue reading →

1. There’s been a small policy change lately, and I Do Not Like it. THey used to have their recommendations grouped into “New For You” and “coming Soon”. Now they have combined those categories under the name “New For You”, … Continue reading →

There’s an article up on Tor.com, Break the YA Monopoly — Give Us Female Heroes for Adults, by Emily Asher-Perrin. OK. While I’m very happy that Tor.com has feminist articles, WTF? What has Asher-Perrin been reading? I’d expect an article … Continue reading →

This is an “I liked it but” review – and really, book, it’s not you, it’s me. I think I’d like this book more if I weren’t so close to it. It’s set in South Philly in the 1950s. That’s … Continue reading →

Even better than The Enchantment Emporium, its predecessor; it’s got fiddles. And Great Big Sea t-shirts, bodhrans and a fourteen-year-old dragon boy. It’s also got both the old (Selkies, boggarts, “Captain Wedderburn”, “I’se the B’y”, the nail for want of … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished reading Tanya Huff’s Enchantment Emporium, and wow. I’m glad to see there’s a sequel, because there’s a whole lot of world in that world-building. It actually took me a little while to get into the book, and … Continue reading →