Brandon Sanderson has become one of my favorite authors over the past few years. Although I enjoy all of his works, I really look forward to his long epic fantasies. He is fantastic at creating fascinating worlds and unique magic systems. So I had very much been looking forward to returning to Roshar in the … More Book Review: The Words of Radiance
Well, the bad news is I have a cold. And thus I haven’t been sewing much. I am very behind on my commission schedule. The good news is that, being sick, I didn’t feel too guilty about taking a day of rest. Of course, I was planning on sleeping, but I kept waking up because … More Book Review: The Martian
After forcing my way through A Dance of Cloaks, I wanted to pick up something quick and good. My sister has a pile of “books she thinks I need to read” growing in my room, so I thought I would start to whittle it down. I decided a nice start would be Takayuki Ishii’s One … More Book Review: One Thousand Paper Cranes
Although I have been super busy I somehow managed to finish the April Sword & Laser book pick, A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish. Despite the fairly high page count (around 450 pages, depending on the version), it was actually a very quick read. And that, unfortunately, is about all I can say in favor … More Book Review: A Dance of Cloaks
Despite felling like I haven’t had any time to do anything lately, I somehow managed to finish the Sword & Laser Book Club March book pick – Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Altered Carbon is a futuristic science fiction noir-ish detective novel. It follows Takeshi Kovacs, an off-world criminal/detective with militaristic Envoy training, as he attempts … More Book Review: Altered Carbon
As I may have mentioned, I have been recovering from the flu, and thus have been reading a way more than normal. I hadn’t the focus for anything too drawn out or too serious, so I thought I would pick up an old Sword & Laser book pick – Down and Out in the Magic … More Book Review: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
It is probably all too obvious based on the number of recent book review posts that I am dealing with the flu. Which was fine during the Olympics – online replays left me thoroughly entertained – but afterwards I turned to my big stack o’ books to fill the hours. It is one of those … More Book Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora
When The Hunger Games first came out I was interested – I had heard a lot of favorable reviews on the internet. So I picked it up and looked at the cover description in a bookstore and was immediately incensed. Unfortunately for Suzanne Collins, I had just finished reading Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, which I obsessively loved, … More Book Review: The Hunger Games Trilogy
One of my reading goals for this year is to keep up with the Sword & Laser book club picks, in the hopes that I can find fantastic new fantasy and sci fi authors, and read more diverse picks from the genre. The February book pick was A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. … More Book Review: A Wizard of Earthsea
I have been reading George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series for quite a while now, and I am happy to finally be caught up with the main books in the series. I was gifted the pre-ordered paperback of A Dance with Dragons back when the release date was significantly earlier than it … More Book Review: A Dance with Dragons
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