I want to preface this review by saying that this is a novel that was translated from its original French. I wasn’t aware of that […]
Read moreThe Unlikely Thru-Hiker by Derick Lugo
I feel like I’m one of the very few people who read this book and didn’t feel the urge to rave about it. I read […]
Read moreFeed by Mira Grant
Zombie novels have show up on bookshelves more and more lately. They’ve even invaded the classics, as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies can attest. But […]
Read moreThe Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
I have to wonder if people who were not old enough to remember 9/11 can have any concept of what it felt like to live […]
Read moreWord Origins
Today I received a book that I ordered from Amazon that will no doubt feed my love of words. It’s called Dictionary of Word Origins, […]
Read moreAuthors Behaving badly: Baycon edition
For those of you who don’t know what BayCon is, it’s a sci-fi fantasy convention held in the San Francisco Bay Area that is mainly […]
Read moreFuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn’t care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp’s headquarters on planet, 178 light-years from the corporation’s […]
Read moreIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
“Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the […]
Read moreLiterary Lines–October 18
“We are awfully lucky to be here–and by ‘we’ I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of our […]
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