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book reviews: simple sci fi
All my great intentions for reading in 2026 have manifested in the way of man whose eyes are too big for his stomach. In my case, my reading appetite has bitten off a few large portions and I find myself already well into March and not having completed much of anything. It is not for
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book reviews: on down the river
September may be the end of summer reads, but no doubt that I am still trudging through a reading list longer than I care to admit. My lack of completed tomes this last few weeks has less to do with the quantity of reading I am going and more to do with my ability to
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book reviews: from a heat wave
There is never a bad excuse to read, but hunkered in the cool basement to avoid the hot weather nursing a cold Coke and speed running some fanciful fiction is better than many. I won’t tell you that there is either rhyme or reason to my recent picks besides that I’m on a bit of
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book reviews: no rules
Barely twenty four hours after I finished reading Dust (which I reviewed in a post now barely a day old) I finished yet another thick tome of a novel which I had been reading concurrently: the second book of the Hyperion Cantos. There are no rules about all this reading books and writing reviews, are
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book reviews: fathers day
Coinicentally perhaps, all three of the last trio of otherwise-disconnected books I recently read had a thread of fatherhood-related importance running through them. It was Father’s Day yesterday, and my last as the dad of a kid (because The Kid will be An Adult in a couple months) so while I’ll be a dad for