Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson
Baby Blue by Bim Eriksson and translator Melissa Bowers was another one of those books I looked at the cover of and said, “Why did I request this?” (As I got it through my library). I don’t remember why, but as I sit here typing this review, I think it probably is getting some attention for the fact it is pretty awesome (if not a “What did I read?” and one of the more odd reads of the year so far) book. I think it […]
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
CBR Bingo: TBR I’ve owned The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson for at least a few years. I think I bought it because the front cover said, “One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year” and the premise sounded interesting. Somewhat disappointingly, I ended up DNFing this one at about the 30% mark, but I got enough of an impression of it to want to write a review. In the near future (which might now technically be the past, since I took […]
The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn
Warning: I’m going to spoil the shit out of this book because I don’t want to subject anyone else to it. I don’t normally post truly negative reviews (at worst, my reviews are lukewarm-ish). Most of the time when I don’t like a book, I stop reading it, and usually, it’s because I’m bored (and I don’t usually have much to say beyond “I was bored”, which hardly justifies writing a full review). I wanted to quit this book so many times, but the masochistic […]
Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North
CBR Bingo: ‘N’ I really enjoyed Claire North’s The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August when I read it last year, but, for whatever reason, I didn’t realize that she’d also written other books. I’ve been somewhat struggling to find appropriate books to review for the CBR Bingo “letter” squares, so when I saw Notes from the Burning Age on a recent trip to my local used bookstore, it both fit the ‘N’ square and looked intriguing. Set in a future where the effects of climate […]
Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I’ve been having such a hard time writing this review, and that’s because I know I need to re-read it in order to actually convey my thoughts. The second half of this book, listening to it felt like a fever dream, and I probably wasn’t paying as much attention to it as I should. And unfortunately, I think the second half is when the book is really crucial […]
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi
Bingo: Black I’ve been a longtime Scalzi fan since a friend insisted I read Old Man’s War. However, his last trilogy, The Collapsing Empire, didn’t do it for me. Then along came The Kaiju Preservation Society, 5 star read, followed by Starter Villain, 5 star read. Scalzi was on a roll! After seeing him at an event for Starter Villain, I was so geeked for the final book in this triptych, When the Moon Hits Your Eye. Scalzi explained this at the event and here is a concise description […]
